The United States is “lagging” behind other major economies in developing a digital version of its currency, according to a recent study by the US-based Atlantic Council think tank. The study found that as 134 countries representing 98% of the global economy are making concerted efforts to produce a digital currency, the US is far behind competing economies such as China, India, Japan, and Europe in doing so.

A state judge on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia case that accuses the former president of trying to interfere with the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump picked up 59 delegates after winning Georgia Tuesday, and with another victory in Mississippi and an expected win in Washington state, he will exceed the necessary delegate count to become the presumptive Republican nominee.

The White House asked Special Counsel Robert Hur to make changes to descriptions of President Joe Biden’s memory in Hur’s bombshell report on how the president handled classified documents.

The Biden administration will send a new $300 million ’emergency’ military aid package for Ukraine bypassing Congress after its plans to assist Kyiv have been stalled on Capitol Hill, White House National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan announced on Tuesday.

The US Department of Agriculture published its 2022 Census of Agriculture on Feb. 13, showing that the number of farms in America decreased by 7%, or 141,733, between 2017 and 2022, Farm Bureau reports.

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday confirmed that a smuggling organization working with the terrorist organization ISIS is funneling criminals through the U.S. border. He also said the FBI is currently investigating its operations that “we’re very concerned about.”

President Joe Biden on Monday released his $7.3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 with $5.5 trillion in tax increases that continues to increase the national debt.

The United States Supreme Court is set to rule this year on whether the federal government can force emergency room physicians to carry out abortions, CBN News reports. Under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, physicians in hospital emergency rooms are required to stabilize patients with medical care; the Biden administration argues this should include abortion.

A U.S. District Court handed Texas a win in the first round of a case that consolidated two lawsuits filed against the Biden administration for halting border wall construction.

President Joe Biden took aim at the nation’s debt and deficit in his State of the Union address on Thursday, but several of his financial claims were false, according to some budget experts, including his claim that he cut the deficit by $1 trillion last term.

Hungary’s hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has met with former American President Donald J. Trump in the U.S. state of Florida, sparking outrage in the White House where the visiting European leader was described as a dictator.

Former President Donald Trump has called U.S. President Joe Biden’s fourth and perhaps last State of the Union address “angry”, “polarizing,” and an “embarrassment” to the United States.

U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday that the war in Gaza is “gut-wrenching” and urged more humanitarian aid, including through an aid port the American military is setting up.

President Joe Biden delivered a wide-ranging State of the Union address Thursday evening, touching on the economy, Ukraine, the border and more while attacking Republicans during his remarks, possibly his last time to give the address as president.

An undercover human trafficking operation in Florida found that 21 illegal foreign nationals were using papers given to them by the Department of Homeland Security to fly to major cities in the United States for free to engage in sex trafficking, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

The Attorney General of Missouri has filed legal action against Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the US, to prevent the organization from transporting minors out of the state for abortions without their parents’ consent, The Christian Post reports. Planned Parenthood has denied that it does this.

A federal court in North Carolina ruled Monday that Christian-led businesses cannot be forced to offer employee health insurance coverage that includes gender transition treatments and surgeries, Reuters reports.

Nikki Haley, the last main rival of Donald J. Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, has suspended her campaign.

Amid rising concern over attacks on minority faith groups around the world, a bipartisan coalition of United States Senators last week introduced a resolution urging the State Department to expand its support for international religious freedom as “a fundamental right and a cornerstone of US foreign policy.”