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Live from n.p.r. News in Washington encore of a Coleman the fight over border while funding and the partial federal government shutdown is moving to the Senate side of the Capitol senators are preparing to take 2 separate votes tomorrow but N.P.R.s Jon Snyder reports neither measure seems likely to succeed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to bring both bills to the Senate floor and one of them is modeled on the proposal President Trump offered over the weekend it includes a $5...

Is deciding whether or not to allow short term rentals which have risen in popularity because of websites like air b.n. B. And v r b o and the meeting tonight the public can weigh in on the future of the program why Orme has more theres been a moratorium on new short term rental applications since November the city council expressed concern about the impacts of vacation rentals on neighborhoods and wanted a better sense of the publics opinion since then more than $450.00 people have taken a sur...

Federal government shutdown no formal talks are set between President Trump and congressional Democrats they remain at stalemate over funding for a southern border wall hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors still arent getting paid but some are working the Internal Revenue Service called back $46000.00 employees to handle tax returns more Democrats are taking steps toward presidential campaigns last night New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a White House run and a...

Justice Minister are expected to be summons to give testimony as are all members of the Judicial Appointments Committee the attorney general has recused himself from the investigation as he as a friend of the main suspect the United Nations human rights experts have called on Iran to give urgently needed medical treatment to 2 prisoners including the British Iranian national Nanas as a means of Garri Ratcliffe the appeal by the 6 experts comes after Mrs a Gary Radcliffe went on hunger strike ov...

Between President Trump and congressional Democrats they remain at stalemate over funding for a southern border wall hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors still arent getting paid but some are working the Internal Revenue Service called back 40 $6000.00 employees to handle tax returns more Democrats are taking steps toward presidential campaigns last night New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a White House run and as N.P.R.s Scott dêtre reports Ohio Senator Sherro...

The paragraph here was just great. 7 years after his arrest on war crime charges the International Criminal Court has acquitted the former president of Ivory Coast Lauren bank but his supporters broke into celebration on the announcement but rights groups say the victims of violence are being denied justice Banco was accused of crimes against humanity and other offenses committed during violence following disputed elections in 2010 hundreds of Hondurans have set off in a new migrant caravan bou...

5 of the partial federal government shutdown President Trump has rejected a suggestion to reopen the government for several weeks while the goshi ations continue with Democrats over the border while hes demanded trumpet suggested last week he might bypass Congress and declare a national emergency now Trump says hes not looking to do that Trumps nominee for attorney general William Barr is on Capitol Hill today for his confirmation hearing as N.P.R.s Ryan Lucas reports the hearing is expected to...

Cheers of finda cation rang through the public gallery as the judge and no there was no case to answer he said the prosecution had failed to prove numerous charges against the former president including that speeches by Laura bag Bo constituted ordering or in slicing the alleged crimes Mr Gbagbo and his associates the youth leader Charles Baker take were granted immediate release as the 1st head of state to be handed over to the course Mr Gbagbo extradition from the Ivory Coast in 2011 was cele...

Blick in Congress should learn about Mahlers findings in the Russia probe as a private lawyer barmaid comments criticizing aspects of that investigation and he drafted a memo suggesting the president could not obstruct justice by firing the f.b.i. Director Barr holds a strong view of executive power not something Senate Democrats will highlight during his hearings public interest groups say its the most important confirmation hearing for an attorney general since the Nixon era Carrie Johnson n....

Getting ready to vote on terrorism a very unpopular Brocks a deal its expected to lose by a very large perhaps a historic margin of what will happen after that is anyones guess this comes after more than a year and a half of negotiations and would put the government in a very difficult position as it tries to find some way forward for Britain leaving the e.u. N.P.R.s Frank Langfitt reporting William Bonner president Trumps nominee for attorney general is facing intense questioning on Capitol Hi...