A deeply divided House voted on Thursday to add $5 billion in border wall funding to a short-term spending bill, yielding to President Donald Trump’s demand for the money but casting further doubts upon the fate of efforts to avert a government shutdown. The bill, which the House approved by a vote of 217-185, now heads back to the Senate, which must either approve the measure or risk shutting down a quarter of the government at midnight Friday. A Senate vote is expected Friday afternoon.
One day after the Dakota County attorney announced that the Hastings police officer involved in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man in October was "legally justified" in his actions, we're getting a closer look at the body camera footage. In the video, 23-year-old Keagan Johnson-Lloyd can be heard saying "shoot me," before officer Latsch shoots him three times. Click the link to watch body camera footage.
Friday at 4:33 PM is the Winter Solstice for the northern hemisphere, but what does it mean? One could argue it's 'mid-winter' since this is the weakest sunshine. The strongest rays of the sun today reach the tropic of Capricorn (23.4 degrees latitude south of the equator) which runs through South America, southern Africa and Australia.
