Costs climbed to nearly four cents per penny, so the one-cent coin will no longer be minted.
Actor Hosea Chanchez was honored by the Montgomery City Council while he was in the city to mourn his father’s tragic death.
The House is scheduled to take up a bill to reopen the government that the Senate passed on Monday night.
The bill that would end the longest government shutdown could be up for a final vote in the U.S. House as soon as Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate has passed legislation to reopen the government, bringing the longest shutdown in history closer to an end.
President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Senate has taken the first step to end the government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies.
Lenny Wilkens, a three-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame who was enshrined as both a player and a coach, has died at 88.
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
