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Senate Democrats say they've reached a funding agreement with Republican lawmakers ahead of tonight's deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.

NPR's Barbara Sprunt says Democrats want changes made at the Department of Homeland Security on immigration enforcement before agreeing to any long-term spending proposal for DHS.

A bipartisan group of mayors is calling for the federal government to scale back its immigration enforcement efforts across the U.S.

Aziv Zhukov with member station WBUR reports many of the mayors attending an annual conference in Washington worry their own cities might end up resembling Minneapolis.

Winter storm warnings are in effect for the southeastern U.S.

from northeast Georgia to southern Virginia.

The National Weather Service says some areas could receive more than six inches of snow from a storm moving up the Atlantic coast.

Raleigh, North Carolina is forecast to see four to eight inches of snow by tomorrow night.

Charleston, South Carolina is expecting up to four inches of accumulation.

More than 200,000 homes and businesses from Texas to New England remain without power as a result of last weekend's massive winter storm.

Most of the outages remain in three states, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, where ice was a big problem.

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Weeks after the U.S.

military seized the president of Venezuela and his wife from Caracas, that country's acting president has signed a law to open the nation's oil sector to privatization.

Delcy Rodriguez made it official yesterday, hours after Venezuela's National Assembly approved the overhaul.

The change is prompting the Trump administration to formally begin easing sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector.

Ousted President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores are due back in federal court in New York in March after having pleaded not guilty to charges that include drug trafficking.

The prediction market industry is locked in nearly 20 lawsuits over its future in the U.S.

As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, critics of the popular apps say they're supercharging gambling addiction.