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Shutdown threat ends: Congress passes a temporary funding plan and sends it to Biden

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 30, 2023 8:35 PM - The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday, hours before a midnight deadline, as Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open and sent the measure to President Joe Biden to sign.
The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl

By MARK SHERMAN
Sep 30, 2023 9:20 AM - The Supreme Court is returning to a new term to take up some familiar topics -- guns and abortion -- and concerns about ethics swirling around the justices.
McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certain

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 29, 2023 1:02 PM - McCarthy's right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient.
The problem with being Mike Pence

By Debra J. Saunders
Sep 29, 2023 1:00 AM - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Mike Pence is polling under 5% in the RealClearPolitics polling average; that low number placed the former vice president at a far end on the Fox Business News debate stage Wednesday night.
Justice Kagan speaks out

Sep 29, 2023 1:00 AM - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Justice Elena Kagan, the former dean of Harvard Law School, weighed in last week publicly on what is really a crisis facing the United States Supreme Court.
Businessman who bribed state legislators asks for leniency

Chicago Sun-Times
Sep 28, 2023 4:09 PM - The politically connected businessman who bribed two Illinois lawmakers in a bid to change state law in his favor has asked a judge for a relatively light prison sentence, arguing that the people of Illinois would have benefited from legislation at the center of his corrupt scheme.
NATO's secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss 'ending Russia's aggression'

By HANNA ARHIROVA
Sep 28, 2023 2:37 PM - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops on Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine's Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week's missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Biden is targeting Trump's 'extremist movement' as he makes democracy a touchstone in reelection bid

By SEUNG MIN KIM and JONATHAN J. COOPER
Sep 28, 2023 2:36 PM - President Joe Biden is arguing that "there is something dangerous happening in America" as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country's democratic institutions.
Israel's High Court hears challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove Netanyahu from office

By TIA GOLDENBERG and MOSHE EDRI
Sep 28, 2023 2:36 PM - Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday heard a challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove a sitting prime minister, which critics say is designed to protect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been working to reshape the justice system while he's on trial for alleged corruption.
House Republicans make their case for Biden impeachment inquiry at first hearing

By FARNOUSH AMIRI, LISA MASCARO and ERIC TUCKER
Sep 28, 2023 2:35 PM - House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to "provide accountability" as they probe the family finances and business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate.

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