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It all started with mummies and a basketball tournament, depending on whom you ask.

Tuesday night the city council in Stockton, Calif., is expected to clear they way for the city to declare bankruptcy. It will be the largest municipal bankruptcy ever for a city that is a poster child for the housing crisis.

The Labor Department reports Wednesday on consumer prices for October. Inflation has been running hotter than many Americans are used to, and it's taking a political toll on President Biden.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Politico's Suzanne Lynch about the Polish government deploying troops to secure its eastern border with Belarus — as thousands of migrants try to enter the EU country.

Even setting aside the investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors, Washington had more than its usual list of scandals in 2018.

The announcement of a troop pullout in Syria stunned allies and left them unprepared. David Greene talks to former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford about America's credibility on the world stage.

The Down Jones Industrial average has suffered its worst Christmas Eve performance. How is President Trump reacting? Israel's government wants to move up its elections from Nov. 2019 to April.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has angered many political groups in Iraq that say he's concentrating too much power in his hands. There's talk of a no-confidence motion, but at least for now, there's no clear rival to replace him.

Activists say hundreds of Syrians, perhaps more than a thousand, have been killed in President Bashar al-Assad's brutal offensive. The situation may be about to get worse; food and medical supplies are growing short as the violence mounts.

The $600 unemployment benefit set to expire this month helped keep families afloat, says Georgetown University's Indivar Dutta-Gupta. Without it, they face serious hardship, and the economy will slow.