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Evan Vucci/AP President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon to ask House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to “make a deal” that includes funding for a wall along the southern US border. Trump’s tweet comes 11 days into a partial government shutdown that came after gridlock among congressional lawmakers who did not secure Trump’s requested $ 5 […]
Evan Vucci/AP The retiring Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona urged members of his political party to challenge the president, days before he is scheduled to retire from Capitol Hill. “Somebody does need to challenge the president,” Flake said in a CNN interview on Friday. “I think that the country needs to be reminded what […]
Mark Wilson/Getty Images The government shutdown is now in its sixth day. This is the 21st time the federal government has had a funding lapse since the modern budgeting process began. Most of those times the shutdown has been short and not involved employees being sent home, but that has changed in recent years. As […]
Joshua Roberts/Reuters A shutdown affecting parts of the federal government appeared no closer to resolution Wednesday, with President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats locked in a hardening standoff over border wall money that threatens to carry over into January. Trump vowed to hold the line, telling reporters as he flew to Iraq that he’ll do […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Approximately 800,000 federal government employees have gone without pay since the third government shutdown of the year went into effect just after midnight on December 22. A portion of these workers are employed as contractors, which means their payments come from a third party. If the government is not working with that […]
Police in Sussex, UK, have arrested two individuals believed to be involved in bringing London’s Gatwick airport to a standstill for over 24 hours. Police said that the two alleged perpetrators were arrested as part of an investigation into the criminal use of drones just after 10 pm on Friday, without elaborating on their role […]
With Democrats determined to vote against any funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall proposal and Trump refusing to sign a bill without it, the US government is heading for a shutdown right before Christmas. Congress has until midnight on Friday to approve funding to keep the US government going. The Senate and the House […]
The Dow Jones fell almost 500 points to more than a year’s lows as concerns grew over a partial government shutdown after US President Donald Trump signaled he would not sign a spending bill without funds for a border wall. Shares had already been plunging since the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate on […]
After discovering another security issue potentially impacting 52.5 million users, Google is shutting down the consumer version of Google+ in April 2019.Read More
NASA sure hasn’t been having a great time with its telescopes. The Chandra X-ray Observatory has gone into safe mode and halted all its science operations a few days after Hubble shut down due a gyroscope failure. According to the agency, Chandra’s transition into safe mode was possibly triggered by an issue that also has […]
