POLITICS

10 Senate Democrats Join Republicans to Advance Funding Bill to Avoid Shutdown

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Congress has until midnight tonight to avert a government shutdown. WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on March 14 advanced a House-approved bill to keep the government open hours before a shutdown is set to begin. After days of speculation about its ultimate fate in the upper chamber, the Senate invoked cloture on the bill in a 62–38

Senate Passes Funding Bill to Avert Government Shutdown

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The stopgap funding bill now heads to the president’s desk for signature. Earlier on Friday, 10 Democrats joined Republicans to advance the measure. WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on March 14 approved a House-passed bill to extend government funding by six months, hours before a shutdown deadline. After days of speculation about its ultimate fate in the

Senate Passes Bill Classifying Fentanyl as Schedule I Drug, Barring Medical Use

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The bill now goes to the president for his signature. The new classification would mean fentanyl could not be prescribed by a physician. The Senate passed a bill on March 14 that would reclassify fentanyl as a Schedule I narcotic, pulling it from medical use and toughening penalties for those charged with criminal offenses related

In address about vision for DOJ, Trump complains about prior probes

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President Trump delivered a rambling campaign-style speech at the Justice Department on Friday to lay out his vision for the department, in which he aired his grievances over the federal investigations into him and vowed retribution against his political foes.  Mr. Trump referred to a “corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of