Epstein Secrets

avert a government shutdown on Friday, setting up a December showdown over Trump's border wall that could fall in the midst of impeachment votes. Erica Werner reports: "The legislation, which passed 231 to 192, extends government funding through Dec. 20. It must pass the Senate and be signed by Trump befo

and racketeering charges against nearly two dozen adults who are alleged to be gang members." This July 21 aerial view shows a speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps moving around the British- EFTA00046477 flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which Iran seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. (Morteza Akhoondi/AP)

, jolted by a recent report that found the Treasury Department was running out of cash much faster than previously forecasted," Damian Paletta and Erica Werner report. "But the talks have bogged down amid acrimony between Democrats and the White House, and now Washington's leaders run the risk of a fiscal

itage and issue to verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away,' the British government said in a statement. ... Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps denied Thursday that it was involved in challenging the British tanker, saying in a statement carried by the Fars news agency that there had been

dget and debt deal are unlikely to include many — if any — actual spending cuts, even as the debt limit is lifted for two years. Damian Palette and Erica Werner report: "The agreement appeared likely to mark a retreat for White House officials who had demanded major spending cuts in exchange for a new budg

including concealed tunnels and other hiding places. (Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim) -- A British warship tried but failed to prevent Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps from seizing a British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last week, intercepted Page 13951 EFTA00044462 radio communications show, fueling a wave o