With 48 hours to government shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pressing forward with a party-line stopgap spending bill that will not pass the Senate and could have trouble in the House.
More than 300,000 migrants attempted to cross into the United States in August, surpassing the national record, as the White House says border number ebb and flow.
Congress has been warned to be on high alert for Chinese spies after a suspected Beijing espionage plot was uncovered in British parliament.
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