President Joe Biden said Friday he thought Hamas was motivated to attack Israel in part by a desire to stop that country from normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia.
The federal deficit leaped to $1.7 trillion for the just-ended fiscal year 2023, the Treasury Department announced, with President Biden's team pinning blame on his predecessor's 2017 tax cut package.
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case in Washington agreed Friday to temporarily lift her narrow gag order. The ruling gives Trump's lawyers time to prove why the former president's comments should not be restricted as the case heads toward trial.
Oklahoma's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation's first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond's warning that it would violate both the state and U.S. constitutions.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Friday endorsed Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer to succeed him after GOP lawmakers voted to remove Rep. Jim Jordan as their designated candidate for speaker.
The Supreme Court put a hold Friday on lower court rulings that had ordered the White House to stop pressuring social media companies to censor content the administration disagreed with.
Donald Trump's lawyers asked a federal judge on Friday to lift a narrow gag order imposed on him in his 2020 election interference case while the former president pursues a challenge to the ruling aimed at reining in his incendiary rhetoric.
The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold a Missouri law that bans state and local officials from assisting the federal government in firearm prosecutions the state deems unconstitutional.