U.S. consumer prices likely accelerated in December as some of the distortions related to the government shutdown that had artificially lowered inflation in November unwound, which would cement expectations of the Federal Reserve leaving interest rates unchanged this month.
Federal arson charges were filed on Monday against a man accused of setting fire to the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, home to the state's first Jewish congregation and an institute providing religious school programs for Jews across the U.S. Deep South.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers will visit Denmark this week as President Donald Trump threatens a takeover of Greenland, an autonomous part of the kingdom of Denmark that houses a U.S. airbase.