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A day ahead of shutdown, Congress works on advancing stopgap spending bills

1 year 8 months ago

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on a bipartisan vote passed a short-term funding extension Thursday intended to give lawmakers a bit more time to wrap up work on the annual spending bills — trying to dodge a shutdown despite election year politics and narrow margins. The stopgap spending bill, sometimes called a continuing resolution, or […]

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Former US ambassador admits to working for decades as Cuban intelligence agent

1 year 8 months ago
MIAMI (AP) — A former career U.S. diplomat said in court Thursday that he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades, bringing a lightning fast resolution to a case prosecutors described as one of the most brazen betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign [...]
JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press