President Biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill on September 30 that will cover more than half of the federal government through the end of the current budget year.
Final passage in the Senate around 2 a.m. averted a partial government shutdown.
The measures include pay increases for the military and increased border security spending.
Does not include — aid to Israel or Ukraine.
Lawmakers are expected to take up these two items in early April after a two-week recess.
Egypt has announced that around 7,000 aid trucks are being refused entry to Gaza as the United Nations warns that famine is imminent.
On the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said blocking aid shipments was a “moral outrage”.
He called for an immediate ceasefire, saying it was time to, in his own words, “truly flood Gaza” with aid.
A Russian spacecraft took off from Kazakhstan today, carrying a crew of three for a six-month stay at the International Space Station.
The team consists of Americans, Russians and Belarusians.
This is one of the last remaining forms of cooperation between Russia and the West.
And then Laurent de Brunhoff passed away.
After his death, Laurent cultivated his own work, providing illustrations for The Elephant King of Ceresville, just like his father, and it grew into a worldwide franchise.
De Brunhoff was 98 years old.
“PBS News Weekend” continues.
Living and working conditions of migrant workers on dairy farms.
And how a small town in Wisconsin is coping with the recent surge of immigrants.
