Threat of government shutdown ends as Congress passes a temporary funding plan and sends it to Biden
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On the brink of a federal government shutdown, the House has swiftly approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open.
A new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers next year.
Arizona and Utah will keep the iconic national parks in those states open if a shutdown of the federal government threatens access to Arizona’s Grand Canyon.
The eighth-largest jackpot in lottery United States history was not won Wednesday when the Powerball numbers proved elusive for the 30th consecutive time..
The fate of Pvt. Travis King remains uncertain, having been declared AWOL by the U.S. government.
Powerball’s jackpot was last won July 19 when a ticket in California matched all five white balls and the red ball to win $1.08 billion.
Two tickets did get the five regular numbers plus the power play to claim $2 million each. One was sold in Georgia and one in Texas.
The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot — no matter the size — are near 1 in 292.2 million.
The son of President Joe Biden alleges in the lawsuit that the two IRS agents wrongly shared his personal tax information.
The United Auto Workers union went on strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis simultaneously for the first time in its 88-year history.
The agency is hoping to blunt any surge in COVID-19 cases or hospitalizations as part of a shift to treating the vaccine like getting a yearly flu shot.
The location where the man passed away is toward the end of the South Rim to North Rim trek, which can take 12 to 15 hours to complete.
“We’re seeing the fingerprints of climate change all over our nation,” NOAA applied climatologist Adam Smith said Monday. “I would not expect things to slow down anytime soon.”
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes crashed at New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.