The United States Postal Service (USPS) is seeking approval to raise the price of fist-class mail stamps from 63 cent to 66 cents. This comes just four months after the agency raised the price from 60 cents as an offset to inflation. The plan overall aims to hike prices by 5.4 percent, which would add up to a total of 32 percent in increases since early 2019.
A Chinese court will begin hearing claims for compensation filed by the families of passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 that vanished almost 10 years ago.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of George Floyd's murder, is expected to survive after being stabbed by another inmate in prison.
The outbreak that began in early 2022 has been much less severe this year as fewer cases of the virus are being found among the wild birds that spread it, but there have still been more than 8 million birds killed this year to help control the spread of the disease.