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The federal budget deficit is expected to balloon to about $2 trillion for fiscal year 2023, roughly double what it was in the previous fiscal year, according to a government watchdog group.

Special counsel Jack Smith said in a court filing Tuesday that former President Donald Trump has made "daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool" in the 2020 election subversion case.

A campaign fundraiser for indicted Rep. George Santos and the Justice Department are mulling a possible plea deal, according to a Tuesday request for a speedy trial waiver from prosecutors.

A New York federal judge issued an order Tuesday temporarily barring two firearms companies from selling devices that prosecutors say convert AR-15 style rifles into machine guns, finding that prosecutors are likely to prove the companies plotted to hide their sale from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by intentionally failing to register the accessories.

Bond documents signed by Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case were filed with the Fulton County Superior Court Tuesday. Last month, the former president agreed to a $200,000 bond, which he covered the cost of by putting 10% toward it and working with a local Atlanta bond company.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton "wasn't the man he publicly proclaimed to be," the state House Republican who is leading the impeachment case against Paxton told the state Senate on Tuesday.

Those who dislike Donald Trump often deride his followers as "cult" members, enamored by the former president's personality. But our new CNN/SSRS poll puts a somewhat different spin on things.

More than 4 million people have so far enrolled in President Joe Biden's new repayment plan, known as SAVE, which promises to lower their monthly bills as student loan payments are set to resume in October after a yearslong pandemic-related pause.

A federal appeals panel on Tuesday declined to issue a broad order blocking special counsel Jack Smith's team from accessing data from Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry's cell phone that was seized by the FBI, and sent the case back to a lower court for further litigation over what material investigators can examine.

Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge Tuesday for leading a failed plot to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump continues to hold what has proven to be an unshakeable position atop the Republican field of candidates vying to take on President Joe Biden next year, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's office released an update about the 81-year-old Kentuckian's health after he froze in front of cameras last week for the second time in as many months.