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The House voted to pass a rule vote to begin debate on four separate spending bills after two rules votes failed last week, prompting Republicans to burst into applaus on the floor.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was the only…

Speaker Kevin McCarthy seems to have accepted the GOP-led House will not be able to push through 12 spending bills before the end of the fiscal year, and will instead need to pass a resolution to keep government funding at its current…

Book of the weekHighly Desirable: Tales of London’s super-prime property from The Secret AgentBy Anonymous (Headline £22, 374pp)We hate estate agents — the easy money they make as prices escalate and commissions expand ('the figures that…

In a Wednesday evening vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that punts government funding negotiations to the day before Christmas Eve.Members of Congress voted 224 to 201 on a short-term spending deal that will keep federal…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has thrown her weight behind efforts to ban TikTok from federal employees' phones by including the provision in an omnibus spending bill she hopes to pass by the end of next week.It is the latest in a growing…

Girl, 13, blows her Chinese family's life savings spending $64,000 on mobile phone gamesThe teenager's mother, Gong Yiwang, found just seven cents left in her accountSchoolgirl deleted chat and transaction records to hide…

Debt ceiling talks STILL at a stalemate with three weeks until default date: Biden and McCarthy prepare for crunch White House meeting as Republicans threaten to filibuster ANY plan that doesn't have spending cuts43 GOP…

Matty Healy was seen flashing a smile as he grabbed a Starbucks on Saturday while being guided by Taylor Swift's bodyguard after reportedly spending time at her Nashville condo the night before. The British-born singer, 34, exited the…