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* A federal judge today granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown. * The Senate failed to advance the House-passed short-term spending bill for a ninth time today as the government shutdown stretched into a third week. * Trump today said he authorized the CIA to take unspecified action in Venezuela. His remarks come hours after The New York Times published a story reporting that the administration had approved the agency to commit covert, lethal action in the country. * The conservative-majority Supreme Court today appeared open to undermining the landmark Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana.

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