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 The Pentagon said it will run out of money to replace weapons sent to Ukraine by Dec. 30 unless Congress approves new funding, for the first time giving a precise date for when it will have exhausted its cash.

The Justice Department on Monday unveiled a new national database to track serious misconduct violations by federal law enforcement officers, a move authorities said would help ensure that they are not unwittingly hired by other government agencies.

Homelessness in the United States soared by a record 12 percent between January 2022 and January 2023 as emergency coronavirus pandemic assistance decreased, an estimate published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines will pay $35 million as part of a $140 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Transportation and start offering vouchers to some delayed customers as penance for last year’s holiday meltdown that has already cost the company more than $1.1 billion.  

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing calls from a growing number of Democrats who say he should recuse himself from a case examining former president Donald Trump's presidential immunity, with House members now raising concerns about the justice's ability to remain impartial given his wife's involvement in the movement to overturn the 2020 election results.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was remembered for "cowgirl grit" and her pivotal role on the Supreme Court as her family and colleagues began a day of honoring the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court.

There was something special about the green and burgundy striped vase selling for $3.99 at Goodwill that Jessica Vincent couldn't put her finger on. She didn't pick it up immediately, but circled back and planned to buy it - just as long as it wasn't too expensive at $8 or $9.

The Vatican on Monday issued its most definitive permission yet for Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples, as long as those benedictions are kept separate from marriage, a decree that fully reverses a 2021 ruling - and that may deepen division over the open-door papacy of Pope Francis.

Over the last two decades, as San Antonio and surrounding Bexar County, Texas, grew by more than 600,000 people, some 17% of the city's blocks experienced a decrease in population.

President Joe Biden was interrupted while speaking with reporters in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday when a sedan slammed into a parked vehicle in the president's motorcade, as he was leaving his reelection campaign offices.

In the face of international pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has doubled down on his opposition to what these allies see as the future of the Gaza Strip: an interim government overseen by the Palestinian Authority and an eventual Palestinian state existing alongside Israel.

A storm that has already killed at least 13 people in Argentina was making its way through Buenos Aires on Sunday morning, drenching the city and bringing heavy winds that led to reports of power outages and damage across the capital.

The embattled chair of the Republican Party of Florida was censured and stripped of his duties and salary Sunday, decisions that all but ousted him from the party's top post as he faces a criminal investigation into an accusation that he sexually assaulted a woman.

Republican polling leader Donald Trump approvingly quoted autocrats Vladimir Putin of Russia and Viktor Orban of Hungary, part of an ongoing effort to deflect from his criminal prosecutions and spin alarms about eroding democracy against President Biden.

WASHINGTON – By his own account, Jim Risch arrived in Congress in 2009 as something of an isolationist, less interested in the United States’ role around the world than in the domestic issues on which he had focused in three decades as a local prosecutor, Idaho state senator, lieutenant governor and a brief stint as governor.