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Police have confirmed multiple victims from a shooting at a high school in Perry, Iowa just before the start of the school day on Thursday. Multiple law enforcement officials said the assailant is believed dead, and may have been a student.

Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado ruling disqualifying him from the state's 2024 GOP primary ballot. President Trump's attorneys are arguing that Congress should determine a candidate's eligibility, and not individual states.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Texas Wednesday over a law it enacted last month that makes it a state crime to illegally enter or reenter Texas from a foreign country.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and 60 Republican lawmakers are traveling to Eagle Pass, Texas on Wednesday. The Representatives are meeting with state and local officials to discuss their experience on the ground—and what they view as the failures of the Biden Administration to enforce border policy.

House Republicans are forging ahead with steps to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Meanwhile, Mr. Mayorkas says the U.S. immigration system is in desperate need of legislative reform.

Suburbs in Chicago are implementing policies to restrict buses dropping off illegal immigrants unannounced. Bus operators will have to get their arrival approved or face thousands of dollars in fines.

Five people have died after a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft collided with a commercial passenger jet at Tokyo's Haneda airport. Video footage shows the passenger jet completely engulfed in flames after all of the passengers and crew had managed to evacuate.

Police have not uncovered any evidence of either terrorism or political motives in the fatal Rochester, New York crash that occurred early Monday morning. Rochester Police Chief David Smith said the driver may have been suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness.

A senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, security sources have told Reuters.

Japan has lowered its major tsunami warning level after a series of earthquakes hit its western coastline, but officials on Monday morning urged caution.

The names of over 150 people associated with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will soon be public, exposing a list of "John Doe"s in previously sealed court documents.

It took a Freedom of Information Act request, but the public now knows what's in an FDA report on Moderna and possibly unsafe practices with regard to the manufacture COVID-19 vaccines.

Former President Donald Trump has been kicked off Maine's 2024 presidential primary ballot, pending an appeal. A Maine democrat who voted to impeach President Trump is now coming to his defense.

The Department of Justice has threatened to sue Texas over its new law targeting illegal immigrants. The DOJ says the law, which grants local authorities the power to make arrests, violates the Constitution.

A federal judge in Georgia has approved new Republican-drawn congressional maps. A Georgia Congresswoman has vowed to challenge the ruling.

Former President Donald Trump will remain on the ballot in Michigan. The state's Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Colorado Republican Party is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state supreme court’s ruling to kick President Trump off the March primary ballot.

Immigration judges are swamped with over three million cases pending in November, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Another hostage taken by the Hamas terrorist group has been confirmed dead. She was named as 70-year-old American-Canadian Israeli Judih Weinstein.

Former President Donald Trump will stay on the primary ballot in Michigan. The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to remove him from the 2024 ballot.

Special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion on Wednesday seeking to block President Trump from making political arguments and referencing what Smith called "irrelevant disinformation" during the trial.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has called presidential TV ad spending a foolish investment, and pulled funding for them.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant indicated on Tuesday that Israeli forces had retaliated against attacks from forces in Iraq, Yemen, and Iran recently. The Israeli military hinted that it hit targets in Lebanon and Syria, and also suggested that it had carried out raids on locations in the West Bank.

Three U.S. service members were injured, including one critically, in a drone attack against a U.S. base in Iraq by the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated terrorist organizations on Dec. 25. The Biden administration ordered airstrikes against the terrorist groups in retaliation.

Russia on Dec. 25 said it had gained control of Marinka, a town in eastern Ukraine about 12 miles west of Donetsk, with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying it would serve as a strategic post. Ukraine has denied Russia’s claim, however, saying its troops are still active within the town’s borders.

Local leaders in the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank scaled back Christmas celebrations amid the war in Gaza. The birthplace of Jesus Christ, usually teeming with tourists during Christmas, had no large Christmas tree in the city center and no parades this year.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was reported missing, was located in a penal colony in Siberia. His spokesperson announced on X that Mr. Navalny was moved to a penal colony in Kharp, one of the most remote colonies in Russia.

A large caravan of 6,000 migrants is trekking through Mexico and heading towards the U.S. southern border. They are believed to be the largest migrant caravan in more than a year, with people coming from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba, and other countries.

New York City’s teachers union sued Mayor Eric Adams on Dec. 21 to block his plan to cut $550 million from the city’s public schools. Adams has argued that slashing city spending is necessary to offset the rising costs of New York’s illegal immigrant crisis.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said on Dec. 21 that the FBI has investigated more than 1,800 reports or tips of terrorism threats related to the Israel–Hamas war. The FBI is concerned about individual bad actors that could carry out an attack on their own—and foreign terrorists that could potentially have slipped across the southern border.

House Republicans have released new records that they say show President Joe Biden was complicit in his son Hunter Biden's global influence-peddling scheme. Joe Biden allegedly exchanged emails with Eric Schwerin—a business associate of Hunter Biden—over 300 times during his term as vice president.