Partial Government Shutdown Looms as Spending Bill Stalls in House
The federal government was poised to enter a partial shutdown just after midnight on Friday, a lapse that lawmakers from both parties anticipated would last only through the weekend, according to Time. The expected shutdown occurred even as the Senate moved Friday evening to pass a bipartisan spending package that would keep most of the government funded through the end of the fiscal year while buying two more weeks to negotiate new limits on the Administration's immigration enforcement tactics.
With the House out of session until Monday, lawmakers acknowledged there was no practical way to send the bill to President Donald Trump before the deadline, making a short shutdown all but unavoidable, Time reported. The pressure now shifts to the House, where lawmakers will have to decide whether to swiftly ratify the Senate plan.
In other news, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a civil rights complaint against Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), after he accused Armenian crime groups of being responsible for health care fraud in Los Angeles, Time stated. "My office is filing a civil rights complaint seeking an investigation into Dr. Oz's baseless and racist allegations against Armenian Americans in California," Newsom said. In a letter addressed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Newsom's office alleged that Oz spewed baseless and racially charged allegations targeting the Armenian community in Los Angeles in a video he posted on Jan. 27, according to Time. The complaint stated that false public statements by anyone involved in administering these critical federal health care programs.
Additionally, Melania, Brett Ratner's documentary about the sitting First Lady of the United States, has arrived in theaters worldwide, Time reported. Produced by Melania Trump herself, it was purchased by Amazon MGM Studios for 40 million, more than quadruple the price of the average doc, and Amazon has reportedly spent another 35 million to market it, albeit selectively. The Thursday night premiere at the Opera House of the newly minted Trump Kennedy Center did have many members of the Trump Administration in attendance, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Environmental Protection Agency, Time noted.
Furthermore, firearm purchasing patterns can shift in response to specific events, including presidential elections, according to Rutgers Health researchers, Phys.org stated. A study by researchers with the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center examined what extent specific groups changed their intentions and behaviors related to firearms directly in response to the election.
Finally, by the savage final act of the blood-soaked cinematic thrill ride that is Send Help, now in theaters, the relationship between nepo baby CEO Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien) and his long-suffering employee Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) has been turned so far inside out, the characters we were introduced to at the start of the battle-of-wills horror-comedy are pretty much unrecognizable, Time mentioned. After getting marooned on a desert island when their private plane crashes somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand on the way to a business trip, the dynamic between the adversarial pair is quickly flipped on its head.
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