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Republican lawmakers said they'll move forward next week with contempt of Congress proceedings after former President Bill Clinton failed to show up for a scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 13 deposition in the House Oversight Committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. bit.ly/4jFuDIC
Breaking: A US official tells USA TODAY the Trump administration is expecting first steps on Greenland within the next "weeks or months." bit.ly/4qPQcIL
More and more lawmakers are opting to retire or even resign early from their jobs amid death threats, gridlock and myriad other reasons.
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Federal employees bore the brunt of the longest-ever government shutdown. One blind woman still hasn't fully recovered.
NCES appears to be back up.
BREAKING: Senate votes to end longest-ever government shutdown.
It must now go to the House, where passage is expected by Wednesday.
BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that there will be a 10% reduction in flights at 40 major airports if the government shutdown continues.
I joined USA TODAY’s podcast The Excerpt today for a special episode about where things stand with the shutdown on the Hill, where the vibes are shifting ever so slightly as several pain points are putting increasing pressure on lawmakers to turn the lights back on.
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New -> In response to the impending expiration of SNAP funding, the Blackfeet Nation in MT says it’s culling 18 bison from the reservation’s herd: “The processed meat will be distributed directly to community members to help sustain food access during this period of uncertainty.”
NEW: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was scammed out of more than $4,300 in a credit card fraud incident at her D.C. home yesterday, per a police report.
"I want to untie my shoelace because standing in one place for this much time, well, made my shoes a little tight," Merkley said at 2:45 a.m. "That feels a little better. I don't recommend standing through the night and talking. Not a healthy pursuit."
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How thieves stole treasures worth millions from the Louvre Museum in just seven minutes
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NEW: A federal judge today temporarily paused the Education Department's layoffs of nearly everyone in its special ed division.
Judge Susan Illston in the Northern District of California issued the ruling, which applies to thousands of other RIFs, too.
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"It's very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs," she said. "It has a human cost ... that cannot be tolerated."
She said the evidence suggests that OMB has "taken advantage of the lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off."
Illston blasted the federal government's actions as "arbitrary and capricious," criticizing the many errors she said have been identified in the layoff process over the last few days.
HHS, for instance, acknowledged in a court filing that the agency had mistakenly fired more than 900 staffers.
NEW: In a court hearing in California happening now, District Judge Susan Illston said she's likely to temporarily pause the mass layoffs of more than 4,000 federal employees that the White House started Friday.
"What's being done here is both illegal and is an excess of authority," she said.
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NEW: Linda McMahon breaks her silence after wiping out her agency's special ed division with layoffs.
"No education funding is impacted by the RIF, including funding for special education," she said in a statement.
Yet almost all the people who historically oversaw that funding have been fired.
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We've got a comprehensive look this morning at seven key pieces of the shutdown puzzle, and whether they could get us any closer to an end.
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I hopped on today’s episode of USA TODAY’s podcast The Excerpt to break down our recent reporting on the government shutdown and how it intersects with the latest Education Department layoffs.
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NEW: Check out this explainer on the Education Dept.'s layoffs of special ed staff ->
TLDR, as one person put it: "This is a time when parents have to really saddle up & be ready to be the most aggressive advocate for their child that they've ever been."
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