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A man drove into a Texas mall after a 19-mile police pursuit, striking four people before he was fatally shot by responding law enforcement officers, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Searing guitar riffs, primal live drums, and pulsing electronic textures collide with impassioned vocals in a raw, unrelenting fusion to create a chaotic yet precise sonic storm that blurs the lines between human aggression and mechanical force.

For a moment, it looked like Congress would actually enact reforms of controversial pharmacy benefit managers after several years of introducing bills and holding hearings.

Donald Trump has yet to arrive in Washington, but he is already confronting the limitations of his electoral mandate.

A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 30 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said.

When Spotify CEO Daniel Ek spoke by phone with Donald Trump, he came prepared.

When Katie – was 18 years old, a boyfriend slipped drugs into her drink and raped her.

A top Senate Democrat on Saturday accused conservative Supreme Court justices of violating federal disclosure laws in a lengthy report that caps a monthslong investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee and comes weeks before Republicans take control of the chamber.

A series of drone sightings over military bases across the country have renewed concerns that the US doesn’t have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could potentially pose a national security threat.

The House is set to vote Friday on a stopgap funding bill in a bid to avert a shutdown just hours before a midnight deadline.

The US Navy has ended an operational pause on its troubled fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft, allowing flights to resume with inspections of the aircraft.

A high-level US delegation traveled to Damascus Friday and sat down with Syria’s de-facto leader, a former Jihadist with a long-standing $10 million US bounty on his head who led the swift and successful rebellion against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The FBI has arrested a student at George Mason University in Virginia for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on the Israeli consulate in New York, according to a federal court filing.

When a student carried out a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School this week, there was no school resource officer on site. And when six people were killed last year at another private Christian school in Nashville, there wasn’t one either.

The Federal Aviation Administration has placed multiple drone flight restrictions over some power infrastructure sites in New Jersey.

A Missouri man who pleaded guilty to entering the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, will be allowed to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next month, a federal judge ordered Thursday.

Luigi Mangione had a busy Thursday, with a whirlwind two-state courthouse tour turned spectacle featuring a helicopter ride, a throng of escorts – including the mayor of New York City at one point – and new revelations of his alleged intent to “wack” an insurance company CEO.

President-elect Donald Trump has long supported House Speaker Mike Johnson — hosting him on election night, bringing him to the Army-Navy college football game last weekend and backing him privately despite conservative complaints about the House’s actions.

The Pentagon announced the US currently has “approximately 2,000” troops in Syria, more than double the previously disclosed number of 900, a Defense Department spokesperson said at a press briefing on Thursday.

House Republicans are pushing a new proposal to avert a shutdown in an attempt to meet Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour spending demands, but it’s uncertain if it will pass after the president-elect sunk a bipartisan deal earlier this week, leaving Democrats frustrated and angry.

President Joe Biden is choosing to stay out of the public spotlight in what could emerge one of the final domestic crises of his presidency, as the White House and Democrats in Washington are portraying a looming government shutdown as a problem for Republicans to resolve on their own.

Facing intense pressure of the federal government potentially shutting down within days and disaster aid coffers that need replenishment, lawmakers are racing to cobble together a temporary government funding plan after President-elect Donald Trump torpedoed their last package on Wednesday.

The Abundant Life Christian School remains a crime scene Thursday as detectives search for a motive in the deadly Monday morning shooting carried out by a student and probe her possible links to a man who – according to an Associated Press report – authorities believe was planning another mass shooting in California.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two billionaires tasked with slashing government waste, are expected to recommend an agency-wide purge of spending on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, three sources familiar with their plans tell CNN.

A Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case against President-elect Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators in the 2020 election.

The annual “Ugly Christmas Sweater Day” at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin was to be a festive precursor to the long-anticipated winter break, a respite of nearly two weeks to gather with family and friends, unwrap presents and reflect on the year that passed.

While Donald Trump is returning to the White House with sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution, that won’t necessarily keep him out of the courtroom or free from testimony under oath.

The pilgrims mix Catholicism with Santería to honor St. Lazarus on a day that reveals many of Cuba’s complexities.

Police have identified the shooter in Monday’s deadly attack on a Madison, Wisconsin, private Christian school as a 15-year-old female student as they investigate the latest school shooting to devastate an American community.

The city of Aurora, Colorado, has re-entered the national debate on immigration after a man and woman were dragged from a unit in an apartment complex Monday night and bound, beaten and pistol-whipped until they were able to beg for their release, police say.

Tom Homan, who Donald Trump has tapped as his incoming administration’s “border czar,” said Wednesday night that plans are underway to deport undocumented immigrants at large scale, and that he’ll need funding from Congress to do so.

A US citizen arrested in 2023 in connection to running an “overseas police station” in New York City pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to conspiring to act as an agent of the Chinese government.

US officials are investigating potential national security risks tied to a telecom company founded in China whose internet routers are used by millions, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesday sharply criticized a deal to fund the federal government negotiated by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, undermining support for the plan across Capitol Hill just days away from a shutdown deadline.

The Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ban against gender-affirming care for transgender children of service members – a provision pushed by Republicans that sparked anger from Democrats.

The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to wade into a years-old legal battle over South Carolina’s failed bid to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.

House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a spending bill late Tuesday that would avert a government shutdown if it is passed by both the House and Senate before funding runs out on Saturday.

The indictment of UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione for murder as an act of terrorism involved multiple factors, prosecutors say, including a “frightening, well-planned, targeted” killing, as well as an outpouring of praise for the suspect and the tangible fear reported by executives since the shooting – but some legal experts caution the charge may be an overreach.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether a controversial ban on the social media app TikTok violates the First Amendment, adding a major case to its docket this term just before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.

A widespread anticorruption campaign within the senior levels of the Chinese military and government is impeding its push to build up its military by 2027, the Pentagon says in a new report released on Wednesday.

Wrapping up their own investigation on the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded GOP former Rep. Liz Cheney should be prosecuted for probing what happened when then-President Donald Trump sent his mob of supporters as Congress was certifying the 2020 election.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the government’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court burst on the national scene about a year ago and is best known for winning Trump immunity from prosecution for election subversion.

A man has died in the US state of Virginia after a bear in a tree, shot by one of his hunting partners, fell on him, state wildlife officials said.

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportation on the campaign trail, and while the scale of it remains vague, the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief” by Democrats and immigrant advocates.

The leaders of the Democracy Alliance – a powerful network of liberal donors – will prioritize flipping control of the US House from Republicans in the 2026 cycle, building on gains the group helped engineer in New York and California in this year’s elections.

Hundreds gathered outside Wisconsin State Capitol on Tuesday night despite the freezing temperatures to remember victims of a private school shooting that left one teacher and a student dead and wounded six others.

The state of Indiana intends to carry out its first execution in 15 years before sunrise Wednesday, though attorneys for the condemned inmate are fighting to save his life, citing his mental illness.

A group of Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee has argued in a new letter that allegations against Pete Hegseth should disqualify him from serving as the next defense secretary.

The US has moved a detainee of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay to Kenya, marking the first detainee transfer in more than a year.