Up to 8,500 US troops have been put on heightened alert to deploy as Russian troops mass on Ukraine's border, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday. .

A man was taken into custody Monday in Tennessee in connection with the death of a Robertson County Sheriff's deputy who was found shot inside her burning home a day earlier.

Wall Street was deep in the red again Monday as investors feared the Federal Reserve's plans to hike interest rates will eat into corporate profits. The tensions in Ukraine, earnings season and — of course — inflation weren't helping, either.

Just as free Covid-19 tests are landing in the mailboxes of people who ordered them, the first free N95 masks for the public have started to arrive at US pharmacies, with more on the way in the coming days.