3 Things To Know Today

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1 Congress Avoids Shutdown With Three Hours To Spare On Saturday

The showdown lasted almost as long as it could have before the federal government shut down on Saturday. The House passed a stopgap funding measure with a 335-91 vote on Saturday, which then passed the Senate with an 88-9 vote just three hours before the deadline. The short-term bill will keep the government running until November 17th, which means this was more of a case of “kicking the can down the road” for Congress, which now has 45 days to come to an agreement on a longer-term funding bill. The bill, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden Saturday night, keeps funding at the current levels and doesn’t include any new aid to Ukraine, which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy removed. McCarthy says additional aid should be considered separately. The Biden administration hailed the continuing resolution as a “big victory,” but Biden said that “we should never have been in this position in the first place.”

2 Amber Alert Issued For Nine-Year-Old Girl Who May Have Been Abducted From New York State Park

An Amber Alert has been issued for Charlotte E. Sena, the nine-year-old girl who was reported missing at Moreau Lake State Park in New York on Saturday. After spending the night searching for Charlotte, who was riding her bike around the park at the time of her disappearance, authorities said yesterday they believe it’s “quite possible” she was abducted. She was staying at the park with family and friends, including her mother who called to report her missing at 6:15 p.m. on Saturday. She had been riding with friends on a bike trail but went missing after she decided to ride one last loop around the trail by herself. A New York State Police command post has been established at the state park, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

3 Donald Trump expects to attend start of New York civil trial

Former President Donald Trump expects to attend at least the first day of the civil trial pitting him and his company against New York Attorney General Letitia James, sources with knowledge of Trump's plan say. The trial begins Monday. Trump's plan was first revealed in a court filing related to a separate court case, Trump's lawsuit against his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. In it, the judge in Cohen's case said that Trump asked to postpone a scheduled Oct. 3 deposition because of his intention to attend the first week of the trial. "Plaintiff represented that, now that pretrial rulings have been entered in the case that materially altered the landscape, it was imperative that he attend his New York trial in person—at least for each day of the first week of trial when many strategy judgments had to be made," wrote the judge in Cohen's case.


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