The mayor of New York vowed to fight corruption charges amid calls for his resignation after U.S. prosecutors presented their case against him.

Unlike other nonagenarians celebrating their 91-year-old birthday with family and friends and enjoying retirement, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley spent his birthday standing on the U.S. Senate floor for over 30 minutes advocating for thousands of abused and missing children.

The second attempt to pass a temporary funding stopgap bill succeeded Wednesday in both the U.S. House and Senate, as Congress is set to leave town for six weeks.

Hurricane Helene, a major storm with “life-threatening impacts,” is expected to make a quick landfall in the United States on Thursday, September 26, Accu Weather reports. The hurricane is moving over the Gulf of Mexico, rapidly gaining strength.

Americans’ confidence in the economy dropped sharply in September, the biggest one-month change since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to newly released data.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday published a new report showing that antisemitic hate crimes in the United States hit a record high in 2023, surging by 63%, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. Although increases in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crimes were also recorded, the number of antisemtic hate crimes far exceeded them.

While California Gov. Gavin Newsom touted a FBI-reported national decline in violent crime for 2023, the same report shows violent crime in California is up 3.6%, and the value of cars stolen in California was over $2 billion last year. Aside from rising motor vehicle theft, reported property theft overall declined 2.6%.

A federal judge last week issued a temporary injunction blocking Tennessee from enforcing a new law that bans adults from helping minors get an abortion without parental consent, the Associated Press reports.

As Americans struggle with high inflationary costs, paying record high grocery costs and energy bills, Congress continues to allocate billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund services for illegal border crossers living in U.S. cities.

The U.S. House passed a bill last week to deport and make inadmissible criminal foreign nationals convicted of domestic violence and sex-related offenses, including sex crimes against children. It passed with bipartisan support but with the majority of Democrats, 158, voting against it.

A top Democratic donation processor, Act Blue, is facing an investigation over concerns that the donation processing service is being used to circumvent campaign finance laws.

A comprehensive new report from a U.S. House committee accuses the Biden administration of “the worst border crisis in American history.”

Retired San Diego Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said he was instructed by the Biden administration to not publicize arrests of illegal border crossers identified as “Significant Interest Aliens” with ties to terrorism.

The U.S. has been in a perpetual national emergency over terrorism threats since Sept. 11, 2001, which was again extended for another year.

The U.S. Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced a slight cut to the federal funds rate, the first cut since March of 2020, when rates were near 0%.

A federal government shutdown still looms after the U.S. House failed to pass a stopgap measure before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.

Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man accused of trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a round of golf on Sunday, was camped out on the golf course with a rifle and a bag of food for nearly 12 hours before being spotted.

More than 2.75 million foreign nationals have illegally crossed the U.S. border so far this fiscal year.

Border Patrol officials say foreign nationals who illegally cross the border aren’t being vetted prior to being released into the country.

The suspect in an “attempted assassination” against former U.S. president Donald Trump was 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, a Democratic supporter who was charged with federal gun crimes, U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.