Senate passes more spending bills, but Homeland Security dispute looms
WASHINGTON — Congress is halfway home in approving government funding for the current budget year that began Oct. 1 after the Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a three-bill package.
Now comes the hard part. Lawmakers still must negotiate a spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security amid soaring tensions on Capitol Hill after the shooting of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
US driver Kaillie Humphries Armbruster wins World Cup monobob race, building Olympic momentum
Kaillie Humphries Armbruster won Olympic gold when she was in her 20s. She won another Olympic gold in her 30s.
And now 40, she seems ready to chase even more gold.
Humphries Armbruster — who missed some of this Olympic cycle while becoming a mother for the first time — heds into next month’s Milan Cortina Games with a slew of momentum. She won the women’s monobob World Cup season finale at Altenberg, Germany, on Saturday, her third victory since December when adding in a pair of two-woman rac
Portrays Venezuela crisis talk as political “distraction fleet”
A new editorial cartoon frames Venezuela-related political messaging as a tool for distraction rather than strategy, depicting an “order of battle” made up not of weapons, but of headlines designed to shift public attention. In the illustration, three military-style ships cruise under the title “Order of Battle, Venezuela,” each labeled with a different purpose: “Distracts from Epstein,” “Distracts from Economy,” and “Distracts from Polls.”
