Vice President JD Vance told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that the administration would work to ensure that the widow of an airman killed during the war with Iran receives military benefits, after the widow said in a social media post that she was being denied some funds because the US had not “declared war.”

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Jan and Judy Johnson, grandparents of Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, discuss their blended family and what it was like watching their grandson become elected to Congress.

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Tons of avocados were destroyed in Mexico after authorities detected an aggressive pest — known as the avocado seed weevil — in shipments destined for international markets.

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With the US sending reinforcements to the Gulf, the Iranian regime has been rolling out propaganda on state media claiming they have more than a million troops organized to fight US forces. CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh reports.

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