The Senate on Thursday adopted an emergency spending bill to fill a nearly $3 billion shortfall in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ fiscal 2024 budget, ensuring millions of veterans will continue to receive their monthly benefits without disruption.

Two correctional officers were stabbed by inmates at a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts, and three others were injured as they responded, a spokesperson said.

An estimated 40 million claims make up a backlog of overdue payments due from third-party insurers and veterans who owe copayments while an online tool malfunctioned. Without the tool, “VA is essentially operating an open cash register,” one lawmaker said.

The future USNS Dolores Huerta will be the 10th ship of the John Lewis Class, and it continues the tradition of bestowing John Lewis-class oilers with the names of civil rights leaders.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Oxford school district on Thursday in a lawsuit that seeks to hold employees partly responsible for a shooting that killed four students and wounded others in 2021.

The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they have said on the witness stand.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington next Thursday for talks with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as he presses for the U.S. to allow Ukraine to use Western-provided weapons to strike deeper into Russia.