President Joe Biden signed a temporary spending bill late Saturday night to keep the government open until Nov. 17, giving Congress seven weeks to work out a compromise budget for fiscal year 2024, which began yesterday. A shutdown seemed unavoidable until the last minute, when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dropped far-right Republicans' demands for spending cuts and passed the bill with Democratic support. Congratulations to the House. It's literally the least you could do. |
McCarthy, flanked by Majority Whip Tom Emmer and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, addresses the media after the bill passed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) |
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McCarthy now faces a different shutdown — of his role as speaker. Some of the most right-wing members of Congress, led by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, are furious that McCarthy worked with Democrats to keep the government open instead of shutting it down until senators and the president caved to demands for spending cuts. Gaetz promised yesterday to hold as many votes as it takes to remove the speaker this week. |
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris' 2020 presidential campaign, to replace the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died Thursday at age 90. Butler will become the sole Black woman in the Senate as soon as Tuesday when the chamber is back in session. |
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Happy payment resumption day to all who observe! If that includes you, visit StudentAid.gov to see which company is servicing your federal loans — you'll have to go to that company's website to see how much you owe each month and when — and compare your repayment options, including the new income-driven SAVE Plan. Haunted houses? Meh. A new four-figure bill to pay each month? Now that's terrifying. |
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The Twin Cities Marathon, one of the larger races in the U.S., was canceled over forecasts of record-setting heat that made it unsafe to run, organizers said. The temperature in Minneapolis-St. Paul reached 92 degrees Sunday, about 35 degrees warmer than the average Oct. 1 high of 57. |
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A federal appeals court ruled that a venture capital fund's grant program for businesses run by Black women is "racially exclusionary" and violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The dissenting judge on the three-judge panel wrote that the ruling is a "perversion" of the law, which was written to protect Black people from economic exclusion. Ah yes, the real discrimination: Helping people who have been discriminated against. |
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After customer complaints and a report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple acknowledged the iPhone 15 can get so hot it's uncomfortable to hold the phone. Apple said it will fix a software bug partially at fault and also blamed third-party apps, including Instagram and Uber, for overloading the $800-and-up smartphone, which went on sale last week. |
Too hot to handle. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) |
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The mayor of a small Kansas town has suspended its police chief, Gideon Cody, while he is being investigated for raiding a local newspaper. Cody and officers seized computers and cell phones during the Aug. 11 raid of the Marion County Record, which legal experts believe violated federal privacy law. Cody said they suspected the paper of breaking identity theft laws but its publisher, Eric Meyer, called it a flimsy pretext for blocking the paper's reporting. |
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After several weeks of post-Barbenheimer lull, theaters perked up their ears this weekend as PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie carried the domestic box office with $23 million. In second place with $18 million was a slightly different film: Saw X, the 10th entry in the gory horror franchise. |
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We can't explain it, but autumn just feels like the best season for crafts and little projects. (Something related to hay bales and flannel, maybe?) If you've wanted to try upcycling but don't know which of your Pinterest boards to make a reality, Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas of HGTV's Bargain Block shared some ideas for getting started. |
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Saying that dogs of a certain breed are aggressive (or territorial or gentle or lazy) is like saying all people from Ohio like showtunes. Dogs are individuals, just like folks in Ohio, and the only way to know what they're like is to get to know them. Chloe Sternlicht and Michelle Aragon of the ASPCA joined us to debunk some myths about large dogs in particular and were joined by Ice, a big lovable boy with soft neck wrinkles and floppy ears. |
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I wonder if that football guy will be at the Taylor Swift game again today —@emily_tweets
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