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We're back to a shutdown. I'm Chris DiMeo, Fox News. The Senate passes a spending bill for most of the government, but the measure only provides two weeks of funding to the Department of Homeland Security. The clock has run out, and so there's a partial government shutdown.
About 78% of the federal government is unfunded right now as the Pentagon, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Transportation. Last week, the House of Representatives passed a full spending bill for all of these departments and sent this over to the Senate. Well, Democrats started to say, we need some changes with ICE. So we want to defund the Department of Homeland Security, only fund it for a shortened period of time. And so what they did is they broke off the DHS funding bill. Well, at that point, the Senate and the House of Representatives were not aligned. So they have to pass in the House of Representatives what the Senate did. Otherwise, the government shutdown continues.
Fox's Chad Pergram, the House is likely to vote on the package on Monday, but it's unclear how many members will support it. President Trump agreed to the deal earlier this week with Senate Democrats. A nor'easter is sweeping across parts of the southeast this weekend.
As the storm strengthens, it will likely become a bomb cyclone. Snow is expected to rapidly expand across the higher terrain of Virginia, the Carolinas, and into northern Georgia. Saturday appears to be the day when the bulk of the snowfall occurs in this region. Some travelers are already bracing for flight cancellations and delays due to the storm. There's also some concern over powerful winds during high tide Sunday morning that could increase the risk for coastal flooding in some locations.
That's Fox's Christina Coleman reporting. New York Governor Kathy Hochul takes steps to end the practice of local police departments assisting ICE in her state. Maintaining ICE has gotten out of control, adding that this stops for now and calling ICE a rogue federal agency. America's listening to Fox News.
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Luigi Mangione, who's awaiting trial on charges of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, won't face the death penalty. Fox's Nate Foy has more from New York City.
The biggest news here is that the judge has agreed with Mangione's defense team to throw out the most serious charge against him of murder through use of a firearm and another firearms weapons charge. This means that the death penalty is now off the table in this federal case in New York State. as far as the state case, doesn't do the death penalty. The other big decision, the judge denied Mangione's defense team's request to suppress some of the evidence.
The judge left the stalking charges in place, which could get Mangione up to life in prison. He's pleaded not guilty. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch says that the Department of Justice released millions of more files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
More than three million pages are now being posted to the Justice Department website. This includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch took multiple questions on the files released today and said most of the videos are commercial pornography. Not all videos featuring Jeffrey Epstein or shot by Jeffrey Epstein. Blanche says medical records, images that may show harm toward children and any sort of physical abuse were not released publicly. Some of the names mentioned in the files dumped today, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Steve Bannon. Again, not much context when names are released. Important to point that out. And we've not seen evidence that anything was criminal between those men.
Fox's David Spunt. Meanwhile, upon release of the Epstein files, which mentions his name, New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch releases a statement in which he says he deeply regrets associating with the convicted sex offender and denying he never went to his infamous island.
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