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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor would gain new power, Justice Elena Kagan will likely recalibrate her negotiating style and Chief Justice John Roberts may have less chance for compromise.

Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi has already dismissed the Black woman President Joe Biden has promised to nominate to the US Supreme Court as a "beneficiary" of affirmative action.

The Pentagon is preparing to push the CEOs of America's largest defense companies to accelerate hypersonic weapons development by hosting a high-level meeting next week with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

An American woman from Kansas who allegedly joined ISIS and led an all-woman battalion in Syria has been arrested and charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

The first Black woman nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Joe Biden will be a "beneficiary" of affirmative action, Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi said Friday.

Wayne Stenehjem, North Dakota's longest-serving attorney general, has died "unexpectedly" at age 68, according to a news release from the Attorney General's Office.

The US Secret Service has charged a Kansas man with threatening to harm President Joe Biden, allegedly telling agents that "he had been told by God to travel to Washington, DC to 'lop off the head of the serpent in the heart of the nation.' "