The Trump administration will soon stop sending out paper checks for Social Security beneficiaries, as part of an effort to fully modernize federal benefits payments. That means a little over half a ...

“If legislators wanted the exceptions to work, they could make them work, but they don’t,” Smith said. CNN reached out to Louisiana lawmakers for comment but did not receive a response.

Japan has previously made exceptions to its decades-old ban on arms exports but extending those to F-35 parts had raised concern about the possible violation of the country's policy of not ...