Paychecks issued Friday to troops and military personnel are expected to be the last that they receive before an almost certain government shutdown forces them to work without pay starting Sunday.

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House Republicans on Friday failed to pass a short-term funding bill to keep the government open beyond Saturday, a collapse in House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid to avert a shutdown after focusing on long-term spending this week.

With gridlock persisting in Washington, a government shutdown is looking all but inevitable ahead of this weekend’s deadline.

Federal prosecutors pressed their case for a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump, citing what they said was a continuing pattern of incendiary and intimidating statements in the case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Army Gen. Mark Milley on Friday sought to remind Americans on his final day as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the U.S. military exists to defend democracy and not to serve a “wannabe dictator.”

It took more than seven decades but the uncle of an Alma man has finally been officially identified after he was killed in the crash of a military transport plane in Alaska on Nov. 22, 1952.

A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service was charged Friday with leaking tax information to news outlets about a government official and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people.

A bail bondsman charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others in the Georgia election interference case pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges on Friday, becoming the first defendant to accept a plea deal with prosecutors.

Mexico’s president on Friday slammed U.S. aid for Ukraine and economic sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations as the first of two high-level U.S.-Mexico meetings got underway in Washington.