LINCOLN — Third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans a stop this week in the state where his father campaigned by train in 1968, weeks before winning Nebraska’s Democratic primary.

But Junior isn’t visiting Nebraska to run as a Democrat like dad, and some analysts say his effort to get onto the 2024 general election ballot could risk Democratic President Joe Biden’s re-election bid.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ending the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays, Congress gave final approval to a temporary government funding package that pushes a confrontation over the federal budget into the new year.

Today, there are more than 18 million living veterans in the United States, representing about 6% of the country’s adult population. Here are key facts about Americans who have served in the military and how this population is changing, based on data from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Census Bureau and Pew Research Center surveys.