The Senate struck a last-minute deal that greenlighted a vote on a GOP amendment to defund Biden’s vaccine mandates in exchange for swift passage of the funding bill.

The omicron variant of Covid-19, first identified in South Africa, has now been detected in countries from the U.S. to South Korea, underscoring the difficulties of curtailing contagious new strains.

A Department of Defense Inspector General report has revealed incidents of racism and extremism in all branches of the U.S. Military. The highest number of racist incidents was in the Army with 33.

The Associated Students of the University of Oregon, the university's student government, is proposing that every student should be required to take a course on critical race theory in order to graduate.

This was the 99th National Christmas Tree Lighting.