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Schumer to support GOP funding bill, unwilling to risk government shutdown as deadline nears

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Updated 6:41 PM CDT, March 13, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led government funding bill that has fiercely divided Democrats under pressure to impose limits on the Trump administration.

Schumer told Democrats privately during a spirited closed-door lunch and then made public remarks ahead of voting Friday, which will be hours before the midnight deadline to keep government running. The New York senator said as bad as the GOP bill is, a shutdown would be worse, giving President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk “carte blanche” as they tear through the government.

“Trump has taken a blowtorch to our country and wielded chaos like a weapon,” Schumer said. “For Donald Trump, a shutdown would be a gift. It would be the best distraction he could ask for from his awful agenda.”

The move by Schumer brings a potential resolution to what has been a dayslong standoff. Senate Democrats have mounted a last-ditch protest over the package, which already passed the House but without slapping any limits they were demanding on Trump and billionaire Musk’s efforts to gut federal operations. ...

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Convicted Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to obstruction of justice, calls himself ‘proud patriot'

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Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member convicted of leaking highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, used his court-martial Thursday to describe himself as a "proud patriot" who was trying to expose the supposed "lies" of the Biden administration.

After pleading guilty to military charges of obstructing justice, the 23-year-old acknowledged he knew his actions were illegal but felt he needed to share the truth about how the Biden administration was, in his view, misleading the American public about the war in...
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US influencer who snatched baby wombat has left Australia

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Anger erupted after Jones posted a video of her taking a baby wombat from its distraught mother.
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Fierce protests as eight-year-old rape victim dies in Bangladesh

  • News source: BBC News - World
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An angry mob set fire to the house where the rape is alleged to have taken place.
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Trump threatens 200% tariff on alcohol from EU

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Wine and spirits will be taxed, Trump says, if the EU does not remove tariffs on US whiskey.
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'They killed all these young people' - BBC investigates alleged massacre in rebel-held Congolese city

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The BBC speaks to multiple witnesses who say M23 fighters hunted down and killed young men in Goma.
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The baby wombat grabbed by an influencer row… in 60 seconds

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The baby wombat grabbed by an influencer in Australia row… in 60 seconds
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Watch: Passengers seen on wing of plane after jet catches fire

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Passengers were evacuated with no injuries reported after an American Airlines flight caught fire at Denver International Airport.
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Newsmax reveals it agreed to pay Smartmatic $40M in settlement with the voting machine company

  • News source: Zoë Richards | NBC News
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Newsmax agreed to pay Smartmatic $40 million as part of a settlement last year following the voting technology company’s election defamation lawsuit against the right-wing news outlet, according to a new regulatory filing, NBC News reported.

The settlement, reached in September, included a cash payment and an option to purchase stock in Newsmax, the media company said in its filing. Newsmax said payments totaling $20 million have already been made, with the rest coming before July.

“Management believes the settlement with Smartmatic will, subject...
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WATCH: Protesters arrested at Trump Tower sit-in for detained activist Mahmoud Khalil

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At least 98 people were arrested Thursday at a protest in Manhattan's Trump Tower calling for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil — the Palestinian activist detained by ICE agents last week.
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Second judge orders Trump admin to rehire probationary workers let go in mass firings

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A second judge late Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate probationary workers who were let go in mass firings across multiple agencies.

In Baltimore, U.S. District Judge James Bredar, an Obama appointee, found that the administration ignored laws set out for large-scale layoffs. Bredar ordered the firings halted for at least two weeks and the workforce returned to the status quo before the layoffs began.

He sided with nearly two dozen states that filed a lawsuit alleging the mass firings are illegal and already having an impact...
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Musk visits National Security Agency after urging ‘overhaul' of U.S. cyberespionage hub

  • News source: Dan De Luce, Carol E. Lee and Courtney Kube | NBC
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Elon Musk paid an unannounced visit to the National Security Agency on Wednesday and met with its chief, an NSA spokesperson said, days after he called for revamping the country’s top cyberespionage hub, NBC News reported.

It was Musk’s first publicly confirmed visit to an intelligence agency since he launched the Trump administration’s effort to drastically slash the federal workforce.

The NSA is one of the country’s most valuable tools for collecting intelligence, according to experts, overseeing a vast eavesdropping operation, as well as...
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DOGE says 239 contracts canceled over 2 days, including a grant to teach trans farmers about 'food justice'

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Over a two-day period, 239 "wasteful" contracts with a "ceiling value" of $1.7 billion have been terminated, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Thursday, including a grant intended to teach transgender and queer urban farmers about "food justice."

The elimination of the contracts represents a savings of $400 million, according to a DOGE tweet posted on X.

Among them included an $8.5 million consulting contract for "fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation and improve efficiency...
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High stakes as Iran nuclear issue reaches crunch moment

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Almost a decade after its historic deal with world powers, Iran is closer than ever to being able to make a nuclear bomb.
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Judge orders thousands of probationary employees fired by Trump be reinstated

  • News source: Gary Grumbach and Zoë Richards | NBC News
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A federal judge Thursday night ordered that thousands of federal workers fired by the Trump administration be temporarily reinstated.

U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Maryland issued a temporary restraining order against dozens of agencies, departments and their leaderships across the federal government that had terminated workers as part of reduction-in-workforce efforts.

“In this case, the government conducted massive layoffs, but it gave no advance notice. It claims it wasn’t required to because, it says, it dismissed each one of these...
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Second federal judge orders White House to rehire fired probationary workers

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A judge in Maryland has blocked for now the mass firings of probationary federal workers and ordered thousands of fired probationary workers to be reinstated, marking the second decision of its kind in a day.

The order from U.S. District Judge James Bredar came late Thursday in a lawsuit filed by 19 states and the District of Columbia against multiple federal agencies alleging the mass firings are illegal.

The states contend the Trump administration blindsided them by ignoring laws set out for large-scale layoffs, which already are having an impact...
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