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Chickens stand in their cages at a farm, in Iowa, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Federal government awards Moderna $176 million in drive for bird-flu shot

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

What really happens If the U.S. can't pay its bills? illustration by Alexander Hunter/ The Washington Times

What really happens If the U.S. can’t pay its bills?

By Gene Marks

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Fifteen months after he was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg on espionage charges, Gershkovich returns there for his trial starting Wednesday behind closed doors. Gershkovich, his employer and the U.S. government deny the charges. (AP Photo)

American Evan Gershkovich goes on trial in Russia on espionage charges that he and his employer deny

By Kirill Zarubin and Jim Heintz - Associated Press

This photo combination shows some of the U.S. citizens who are in Russian custody. Clockwise from top left are Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, corporate security executive Paul Whelan, Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, a dual U.S.-Russian national Robert Woodland Romanov, Prague-based editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir service Alsu Kurmasheva, and a dual U.S.-Russian national Ksenia Karelina also known as Khavana. (AP Photo)

More Americans are ending up in Russian jails. Prospects for their release are unclear

By Dasha Litvinova and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

China's President Xi Jinping arrives to attend the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC summit, Nov. 19, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. Chinese leader Xi talked Wednesday, April 26, 2023, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone and appealed for negotiations in Russia's war against his country, warning “there is no winner in a nuclear war,” state media said, in a long-anticipated conversation after Beijing said it wanted to act as peace mediator. (Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP, File)

White House says Beijing rejects call to restrict AI use in nuclear weapons use

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Prairie Band Potawatomi Chief Shab-eh-nay, shown in this image provided by the Northern Illinois University Digital Library, is at the center of legislation in Illinois to compensate the tribe for land taken from the tribe. Shab-eh-nay, who was born about 1775 and died in 1859, was promised land in northern Illinois in an 1829 treaty, but the government sold it to white settlers in about 1848. The General Assembly is poised to approve a plan to transfer control of the nearby Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area to the Prairie Band. (NIU Digital Library via AP)

Illinois may soon return land the U.S. stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago

By John O'Connor - Associated Press

Avocados from Mexico are for sale at a grocery store in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2022. The U.S. government has temporarily suspended inspections of avocado and mango shipments, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Tuesday, June 18, 2024, after two employees of the United States Agriculture Department were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in the Mexican state of Michoacan. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

2 assaults on U.S. avocado inspectors in Mexican state of Michoacan led to suspension of inspections

Associated Press

A security surveillance camera is seen near the Microsoft office building in Beijing, July 20, 2021. Microsoft fears America's adversaries will join up for devastating attacks in cyberspace, forecasting China and Russia hacking together and working with Iran and North Korea when the opportunity exists. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Microsoft warns Americans to prepare for joint cyberattacks from China, Russia

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This artist sketch depicts Salah Al-Ejaili, foreground with glasses, a former Al-Jazeera journalist, before the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Al-Ejaili, a former detainee at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, has described to jurors the type of abuse that is reminiscent of the scandal that erupted there 20 years ago: beatings, being stripped naked and threatened with dogs, stress positions meant to induce exhaustion and pain. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Jury deliberating in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse civil case; contractor casts blame on Army

By Matthew Barakat - Associated Press

Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani poses out front of her office Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is announcing changes to how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. "It feels good to be seen," said Eskamani, whose parents are from Iran. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

U.S. changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It’s the first revision in 27 years

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

This photo shows an unidentified flying object taken by Rex Heflin, an Orange County highway department investigator, near Santa Ana, Calif., on Aug. 3, 1965. Twenty-first-century conspiracy theories reflect a distrust — and an unease with the rapid pace of economic, technological and environmental change. There are claims that the government covered up evidence of extraterrestrials. (AP Photo/Rex Heflin) **FILE**

Pentagon: No contact with extraterrestrials, U.S. isn’t reverse-engineering alien spacecraft

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A bridge is damaged after Hurricane Fiona hit Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico, Sept. 21, 2022. Puerto Rico continues reconstruction work after two devastating hurricanes and a string of strong earthquakes, spending less than 10% of the more than $23 billion available in federal funds, according to a U.S. government report released on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo, File)

Federal audit finds ‘a lot of work remains’ in Puerto Rico’s hurricane and earthquake recovery

Associated Press

Maryam Kamalmaz hold a photo of her father with some of his 14 grandchildren in Grand Prairie, Texas, Jan. 17, 2024. By any standard, the past 18 months have been remarkable for getting wrongfully detained Americans home. But not so for Kamalmaz, who has had no trace of her father, Majd Kamalmaz, since the psychologist from Texas was stopped at a checkpoint in Syria in 2017 after traveling there to visit an elderly family member. He remains one of several Americans missing in Syria, including journalist Austin Tice, despite a 2020 visit by Carstens to try to negotiate their release. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

As US brings home large numbers of jailed Americans, some families are still waiting for their turn

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

FILE - President Joe Biden sits on a train as he goes over his speech marking the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine after a surprise visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, in Kyiv. More Americans think foreign policy should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2024 amid ongoing wars in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine, with a new poll showing overseas concerns and immigration rising in importance, even as they’re overshadowed by long-standing economic worries. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

More Americans think foreign policy should be a top U.S. priority for 2024, an AP-NORC poll finds

By Will Weissert and Linley Sanders - Associated Press

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning gestures during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, on July 26, 2023. China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s far northwestern region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China sanctions U.S. research firm and 2 individuals over reports on human rights abuses in Xinjiang

Associated Press

Porn actress Ginger Banks stands in the Pornhub booth during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, in Las Vegas. The owner of Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult content websites, has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and agreed to make payments to women whose videos were posted without their consent, federal prosecutors in New York announced Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Pornhub owner agrees to pay $1.8M to resolve sex trafficking-related charge

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

A Transportation Security Administration officer works at Dallas Love Field Airport on June 24, 2020, in Dallas. U.S. Senate and House members proposed Wednesday, March 29, 2023, to create a new no-fly list for unruly passengers, an idea that was pushed by airline unions but failed to gain traction last year. The legislation would let the Transportation Security Administration ban people convicted or fined for assaulting or interfering with airline crew members. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

No Fly List now bloated, wrongly stops Americans; Senate committee urges full federal review

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Opposition presidential hopeful Maria Corina Machado gives a press conference at her campaign headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

U.S. government injects confusion into Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Asylum-seekers walk to a U.S. Border Patrol van after crossing the nearby border with Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 26, 2023, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. Migrants continue to arrive to desert campsites along California's border with Mexico, as they await processing. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Major changes to U.S. immigration policy under discussion. What are they and what could they mean?

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Coup leader Guy Philippe repatriated to Haiti as many question his next role in country in upheaval

By Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto - Associated Press