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Congress passed a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown just hours ahead of a critical midnight deadline when funding for federal agencies was set to run out.

At least 60 people are dead following suicide blasts in the southwestern Pakistan city of Mastung on Friday, the Media Coordinator of the Health Department of Pakistan's Balochistan province confirmed on Saturday night local time.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building on Saturday morning, shortly before the House was scheduled to vote on a government funding bill, an incident the New York Democrat said was an accident.

Built on the land of the Wakka Wakka people, Cherbourg's modern motto of "many tribes, one community" reflects the varied origins of its 1,700 residents, descendants of people once forced to live there under laws of segregation.

A federal judge on Saturday blocked two provisions of a near-total ban on abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy from taking effect in North Carolina, saying that one of the provisions is unconstitutionally vague, while the other lacks medical evidence.

When a woman gets in the driver's seat of a car she often faces a challenge. Where to put her bag? There's just not a good place. There's the passenger seat, if its empty, or the foot well in front of it or even on the back seat, if you don't mind reaching all the way back there.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accompanying the body of late Sen. Dianne Feinstein on a plane from president's military fleet to San Francisco, an aide told CNN.

Water levels are so low at Canyon Lake in Texas that an underwater cave and remnants of communities that stood more than a century ago at the site are reappearing.

At least five people were killed and parts of an Illinois neighborhood were evacuated due to a Friday crash involving a semi-truck carrying thousands of gallons of anhydrous ammonia.

Giles, a charismatic black kitty, took home a trophy and some stitches after finding himself stuck between a cushion and a hard place.

When it comes to Arnold Schwarzenegger's grandchildren and his love for animals, it turns out the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.