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Only one of the four men who made assault and harassment allegations against the husband of state Senator Stan Rosenberg has spoken to investigators.  Americans are feeling the best about the economy in two decades, according to the ABC-Washington Post poll released Sunday.  A look at what the parties are fighting over and what some of the effects of the shutdown are likely to be.  In the Boston area and across the country, demonstrators marched in support of women’s rights and other issues.

Congress has missed a midnight deadline to prevent a government shutdown. The Senate voted Friday night on a procedural motion to advance the House GOP's monthlong stopgap, but it failed to clear the 60 votes needed to advance on a mostly party-line vote. The vote remained open nearly two hours after it began as negotiations behind the scenes continued. After it concluded, Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) ripped Democrats for voting agains the bill.

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Congressional leaders are scrambling to wriggle their way out of a government shutdown that went into effect shortly after midnight when the Senate defeated a House-passed stopgap spending measure. While both sides face risks from a prolonged shutdown, neither party is giving significant ground and the White House says it will not negotiate on the issue that triggered the stalemate: how to replace an Obama-era program that allows certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children to work and go to school here. Senate Democratic Leader MORE

Senators voted late Friday to reject a House-passed bill that would have funded the government until Feb. 16, beginning a partial government shutdown. Most Democrats voted to block the bill as part of a risky strategy to force Republicans to negotiate with them on a legislative fix for "Dreamers," immigrants who illegally came to the country at a young age and now face the prospect of deportation. The procedural motion on the bill failed 50-49. Only five Democrats voted to advance the bill — Sens. MORE in 2016 election, and newly elected Sen.

Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

Pageantry and politics mix at the White House at those most festive of evenings when the president rolls out the red carpet to host a foreign head of state at the presidential mansion for an official state dinner. But in a break with precedent, the Trump White House has yet to utilize the power of the Oval Office to its full social and diplomatic advantage by feting a foreign leader with the honor of a state dinner. Almost every other president in the last century hosted at least one such affair during the first

The DACA) case and resolve the dispute this term -- in an effort to move forward with the termination of the program. An "immediate review is warranted," by the Supreme Court, reads the DOJ petition. "The district court has entered a nationwide injunction that requires DHS to keep in place a policy of non-enforcement that no one contends is required by federal law and that DHS has determined is, in fact, unlawful and should be discontinued," the pet

The House a cleared a must-pass bill Thursday night to fund the government through Feb.

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds substantially greater Republican risk in a Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress than the congressional Democrats if one occurs. Forty-eight percent in the national survey say they’d blame Trump and the Democrats in Congress.