President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached a "tentative deal" on raising the US debt ceiling, according to sources in Washington.
With the government on track to reach its borrowing limit within days, negotiators sealed an agreement in principle to raise the debt ceiling for two years while cutting and capping certain federal programs.
The attorney general has been a fierce critic of President Biden, particularly on cultural issues, and a loyal ally to former president Trump.
Aderrien Murry suffered numerous injuries, including a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs. His family is demanding that the officer who shot him be fired.
A high school senior sued a Colorado school district after she was told she could not wear the sash celebrating her heritage at her commencement ceremony.
The real estate developer’s appeal for help from the Texas attorney general is under scrutiny.
His two-volume study, written with Robert W. Fogel, used data to challenge commonly held ideas about American slavery, including that it was unprofitable and inefficient.
The vice president’s address to graduates of the U.S. Military Academy came as the armed forces have sought to forge a new identity.
As a top negotiator said an agreement was “hours or days” away, an ultraconservative group of lawmakers harshly criticized its emerging contours.
A Dallas school district has apologised after distributing a Winnie The Pooh-themed book about school shootings.
The former president took to social media to weigh in on the events in Texas.
Republicans continue to demand new spending cuts while progressives want to see the White House hold firm on protecting social safety net programs.
A 22-year-old woman has had her leg bitten off by a shark while snorkelling in the Caribbean.
The General Services Administration said it was offering six to nonprofits or government agencies that promise to maintain them, and selling four others at auction.
Police departments across the U.S. are struggling to fill their ranks, creating what many officials say is a staffing emergency that threatens public safety.
We spoke to more than 100 people about the psychological strain from repeated reports of police brutality.
The Treasury secretary, who considered ways to contain the fallout of a default when she was a Fed official in 2011, had urged Democrats to raise the limit while they still had control of Congress.
Republicans have criticized recent estimates of what Black Americans are owed in reparations. But for Democrats, they pose deeper problems for a party eager to retain the allegiance of Black voters.
A funeral home director has pleaded guilty to theft after 31 decomposing bodies and 17 sets of cremated remains were found on the site of his business in Indiana.
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