President Joe Biden kicked off his final holiday season at the White House by issuing the traditional reprieve to two turkeys who will bypass the Thanksgiving table to live out their days in southern Minnesota.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is fighting a federal court order to open 100 shelter beds by January and develop another 750 apartment units by 2026 for homeless veterans in Los Angeles.

The unnamed sailor, who was charged in the death of 22-year-old Petty Officer Third Class Lyndon Joel Cosgriff-Flax, is also facing additional charges of making a false official statement and dereliction of duty.

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma had included Army Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue on a list of people he deemed responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal “disaster.” “No one has been held accountable,” he wrote on X in September.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Rep. Richard Neal, all of Massachusetts, wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that “given the current concerns about the safety of the V-22, the aircraft should be grounded, and should not be deployed again until the platform’s significant deficiencies are fully addressed.”

Retired sergeant first class M.R. Gonzales recalls how important Thanksgiving dinner was to his platoon decades ago, and urges readers to remember warfighters in their Thanksgiving Day prayers.

Israel’s military launched airstrikes across Lebanon on Monday, unleashing explosions throughout the country and killing at least 31 while Israeli leaders appeared to be closing in on a negotiated ceasefire with the Hezbollah militant group.

The move announced in court papers marks the end of the Justice Department’s landmark effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for what prosecutors called a criminal conspiracy to cling to power in the run-up to his supporters’ attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Recruiting children has become easier in a country where many schools are closed, where more than 60% of the population lives on less than $4 a day and hundreds of thousands are starving or nearing starvation.

Authorities say at least one police officer was killed and several officers and demonstrators were injured in clashes. The supporters of Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister appeared determined to reach Islamabad, where a lockdown has been in place for two days.

The Air Force announced last week 250 Space Force guardians with Delta 15, dedicated to protecting and defending operations in space, will be permanently based in Colorado Springs at Schriever Space Force Base.

Ukraine wants to convince Trump that it is not a charity case but a cost-effective and geostrategic opportunity that will enrich and secure the United States.

The United Arab Emirates said Monday police arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in an attack that’s raised concerns for the burgeoning Israeli community in the country.

An American air defense platoon has been monitoring NATO’s eastern flank for more than a week from an undisclosed location in Romania, as part of an exercise that coincides with what Romanian officials say are ongoing drone incursions likely launched by Russia.

Romania’s political landscape is reeling after a little-known populist secured the first round in the presidential election, beating the incumbent prime minister. The president serves a five-year term in the E.U. and NATO member country and has significant powers over national security and foreign policy.

Vice President Sara Duterte publicly announced that she contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives if she herself is killed. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Duterte had a bitter falling out over key differences, including in their approaches to China.

Israel and Hezbollah inched closer to signing a ceasefire deal that may be concluded in the coming days, according to officials and people familiar with the matter, even as the two sides continued to fire artillery and rockets at each other.

On the battlefield, Ukrainian forces are straining to hold at bay a push by Russia’s bigger army at places in the eastern Donetsk region. Russian forces recently have gained ground at “a significantly quicker rate” than they did in the whole of last year, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

A DHL cargo plane crashed on approach to an airport in Lithuania’s capital and skidded into a house Monday morning, killing a Spanish crew member but not harming anyone on the ground. Officials acknowledge that one line of inquiry will look at any Russian involvement but stress there is no evidence yet.