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Congress remains at an impasse on how to fund the government just one month away from the deadline to avoid a shutdown ahead of the holidays.
The top Senate and House appropriators discussed on Monday plans to secure government funding by the Dec. 11 deadline, but they emerged from the meeting with no definitive agreement on a path forward.
Democrats and Republicans have been at an impasse since the summer. Democrats would rather pursue short-term funding at current levels until next year, when they will control Congress. But Republicans would prefer to take advantage of their last opportunity in power to fund the Pentagon, among other things.
But fresh off sweeping election wins, Democrats say any government funding bills need to restrict any money going to the Pentagon from being used to support the war in Iran.
“The voters were extremely loud in this election that they want to end the war, they want to put parameters and guardrails around how this administration is doing their funding,” Sen. Patty Murray (Washington), the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Tuesday.
When asked about Democrats wanting to restrict funding for the Iran war in the appropriations process, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) signaled that GOP lawmakers are opposed to that request.
“A Republican Congress is not going to send bills to a Republican president that he’s going to veto,” Cole said.
Cole said that he proposed that Congress pass a series of packages that bundles together a few full-year appropriations bills. Senate Republicans released on Tuesday text for the funding bills related to agriculture and military construction, which could signal where the party wants to start trying to build consensus.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) stood before a cluster of reporters at Democratic headquarters on election night and made a prediction: Republican redistricting efforts in Florida, North Carolina and Texas would fail, he said. Every Democratic incumbent could return.
One week later, the news of Rep. Darren Soto’s victory in Florida on Tuesday proved Jeffries correct. While several House Democrats lost their seats to Democratic challengers, not one was ousted by a Republican opponent.
Soto and Reps. Shomari Figures (Alabama), Kathy Castor (Florida) and Don Davis (North Carolina) were among the Democratic incumbents considered in serious danger of losing their seats to a Republican. In January, not one will have a Republican taking their place.
Most of us don’t have an actual root cellar these days, but we could all do with following the lead of our predecessors by keeping a few long-lasting, versatile staples around the house, ready to be deployed in a variety of dishes.
The stars of this Sheet Pan Vegetable and Apple Hash With Eggs are all such items: potatoes, onions, apples and eggs. The dish calls for just eight ingredients (three of which are salt, pepper and oil), and is the kind of flexible option that you can pull together in less than an hour on a weeknight for a simple breakfast for dinner.
In the early days of the pandemic, when grocery trips were less frequent, I returned to this dish again and again, mixing up the ingredients depending on the variety of onion (red, white, yellow, even shallots), apple (anything works) and potato (Russet, yellow or sweet) I had. Cooking the eggs on the sheet pan is unfussy and gives you a just-runny-enough yolk that will coat the roasted fruit and vegetables with golden goodness once you dig in.
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The United States intends to achieve a “total victory” over Iran, “not 93 percent victory,” President Donald Trump said Wednesday, using a Veterans Day appearance at Arlington National Cemetery to defend his use of military force around the world, amid rising costs tied to the war.
“Everything we’ve achieved, everything that we are, everything that we hope to become is built on the courage of those willing to endure,” Trump told a crowd of veterans and senior military leaders on a clear, bright day at the country’s principal military cemetery. “We’re not going to allow anyone to hurt or damage our country with bad, foolish, horrible ideology. We’re not going to let it happen, and everyone knows what I mean.”
The president repeated his vow never to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, recognizing a survivor of the 1983 Iran-backed Hezbollah bombing of a Marine Corps barrack in Beirut.
“It was about time somebody fought back. All of us fought back. We fought back, and we seriously fought back, and we won. Just a question of when we want to end it,” Trump said.
Trump repeated his frequent comparison of the Iran operation with the U.S. wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, which he said each lasted much longer than the Iran conflict has.
The U.S. “got very little from any of these wars,” Trump said, noting that the January raid to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro — which he called a “war” — was brief and had a large financial payoff.
“We’re taking out billions and billions of dollars of oil and all sorts of other things,” Trump said. “To the victor belong the spoils, they used to say, but you can say it again with us, under this leadership.”
“Grand Theft Auto VI” is not out until next week, but it’s already passed an estimated $1 billion in sales, according to market research firm Sensor Tower.
The firm’s sales tracker, updated today, estimates more than 10 million copies of the game are preordered across PlayStation 5 and Xbox platforms, putting revenue above $1 billion net of returns. PlayStation 5 accounts for about 75 percent of the purchases, according to Sensor Tower’s estimates.
While there is no hard data from official sources, publisher Take-Two Interactive’s shares rose more than 8 percent Tuesday after CEO Strauss Zelnick said preorders were running “far in excess of our initial expectations,” according to Yahoo Finance.
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The series has crossed the billion-dollar threshold in record speed before. In 2013, “Grand Theft Auto V” surpassed $1 billion within three days, which made it the fastest-selling media product in history.
For a sense of that scale, the fastest movie to reach $1 billion worldwide was five days with 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” according to Guinness World Records.
The debut trailer for “GTA VI″ in 2023 holds the record for the most-viewed nonmusic video on YouTube in 24 hours, drawing more than 90 million plays.
Now you can watch Gwyneth Paltrow interview celebrities and thought leaders about their best practices in wellness and life. On Wednesday, the 54-year-old actress debuted “The Goop Guide” vodcast on Netflix and Spotify, dropping new episodes weekly.
As anyone even lightly familiar with the lore of the Goop Universe knows, whether it’s food or clothing or home decor, just about everything Paltrow does is visually sumptuous in an elevated-rustic kind of way — and “The Goop Guide” follows suit.
The first episode finds Paltrow interviewing Zoe Saldaña, her co-star in a couple of Marvel films that Paltrow, somewhat famously, doesn’t remember that well.
Turns out, Paltrow wasn’t even fully engaged at the time of filming: On set, “you were like: ‘What are we doing? Where are we?’ It felt like the world of Marvel was happening so fast, and your beautiful heart just couldn’t keep up,” Saldaña says, laughing, as they sit in a softly sunlit studio with a leafy magnolia painting and a potted olive tree. “‘What’s the plot? What are we after? Who’s died, who’s alive?’”
Paltrow admits she doesn’t know that much about astrology, and acknowledges how off-brand that is. Both women contemplate parenting while acting and whether they’ve ever taken setting boundaries a little too far.
It’s a great listen for those who love Amy Poehler’s similarly formatted “Good Hang” — but wish it focused more on finding resonance, inspiration and mercury-safe fish recommendations.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced Wednesday a new book certain to heighten speculation that he will run for president in 2028.
Moore, a Democrat who won reelection in a landslide and spent much of the midterms campaigning for others, wrote two best-selling books before getting into politics.
His latest, “Repair: Healing a Divided Nation,” will be released in March and features Moore on the cover, rolling up his shirtsleeves.
Moore has both declined to commit to serving a full second term and demurred on whether he plans to run for president in 2028, though a campaign-season book on politics is a typical precursor to a campaign.
Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has offered a more definitive signal that he’s “more inclined than not” to seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency, announced a book called “Next” on Tuesday about his vision on where the country could go next.
Moore’s first book, “The Other Wes Moore,” about his connection to a convicted murderer by the same name, was a bestseller that built him a national reputation. It was adapted as part of the curriculum in some school districts and turned into a young-adult novel.
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