Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced Monday he is leaving the Democratic Party, saying the party now tolerates antisemitism that would have been unthinkable when he first joined it, Reuters reports.
The United States announced that it will loan 53 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to petroleum companies in an effort to relieve elevated prices.
The U.S. Navy on Monday released a 30-year shipbuilding strategy that calls for $68.5 billion in new spending and officially confirms that President Trump's new "Trump-class" battleships will be nuclear-powered and armed with hypersonic missiles and high-energy lasers.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced legislation Tuesday that would make fentanyl dealers eligible for the death penalty when their product kills someone, a direct challenge to the current federal sentencing cap of life in prison.
President Trump signed executive orders aimed at lowering record-high beef prices, directing the federal government to reduce trade barriers on beef imports and take steps to help rebuild the domestic cattle herd.
Some 215,000 federal government employees failed to pay their federal taxes in 2024, and the collective tab has reached $2.1 billion, according to a report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
