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While appropriations bill must originate in the House, a CR to still fund the government at current levels past the Sept. 30 can start in the Senate.

A security consultant whose company worked to extract at-risk women from Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban, saw his business fail after a damaging story ran on CNN. Zak Young sued for libel and this week he won a procedural victory when a Florida judge said he could seek punitive damages.

"CNN's statements while repugnant, were not, as a matter of law, defamatory"