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The House could vote as early as Tuesday on a compromise spending package that would fully reopen the government.
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is the key sticking point, as NPR senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith reports.
NPR's Tamara Keith reporting.
The Justice Department says it's done reviewing files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but a top congressional lawmaker says the law requires their review and release of files to continue.
Much of the country continues to experience severe winter weather as icy winds swept into Florida on Sunday, and some parts of North Carolina received more than a foot of snow overnight.
That's following days of blizzard conditions and coastal flooding across much of the eastern seaboard.
And you're listening to NPR from New York City.
A Russian drone attack has killed at least 12 people in the eastern Dnipro-Tresk region.
The country's largest private energy firm confirms the death toll on a service bus carrying miners to work.
Sixteen other people were injured.
The Oblast governor said half of them are in critical condition.
The energy firm's CEO Maxim Timchenko says this was an unprovoked terrorist attack on a purely civilian facility for which there can be no justification.
Nationwide lawsuits and federal investigations have pushed schools to help students with disabilities make up for the services they went without during the pandemic.
In Pittsburgh, students missed out on more than 600,000 hours of special education support.
Jillian Forshead of member station WESA reports on the district's efforts there.
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Countel.
A million more documents potentially related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have just been delivered to the Justice Department today for review and possible release to the public.
So far, tens of thousands of documents have been shared, some heavily redacted.