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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is expected to give final approval on Tuesday to a bipartisan interim, spending bill that would prevent the government from shutting down at midnight Wednesday. Senators voted 77-19 on Monday to end a filibuster. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the measure is the only "viable way forward in the short-term." Tea partyers want to see Planned Parenthood funding stripped from the measure.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of Planned Parenthood will go before Congress on Tuesday and defend the provision of fetal tissue for medical researchers. In prepared testimony, Cecile Richards will say that only a minuscule amount of tissue is provided from donated fetal material. The group has been under scathing criticism since anti-abortion activists released videos of the group's representatives discussing the supply of tissue.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — They don't see eye-to-eye but they've met face-to-face. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met on the sidelines of the United Nations. Monday's 90-minute meeting was private and came after the two leaders gave UN speeches with differing views of how to end the bloody civil war in Syria. Obama favors the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
ATLANTA (AP) —The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles is due to meet Tuesday morning for a clemency hearing in the case of the state's only woman on death row. Kelly Renee Gissendaner is set to die by injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday. She was previously scheduled to die March 2, but the execution was put off after the execution drug appeared "cloudy." She was convicted of conspiring with a lover who stabbed her husband to death in 1997.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The list of universities rescinding honorary degrees to scandal-plagued Bill Cosby is growing. Brown University is the third school to take such action in a week. The doctorate of human letters it granted Cosby in 1985 has been taken back. The school's president says Cosby has admitted conduct "contrary to the values of Brown." Fordham and Marquette also rescinded honorary degrees given the comic.
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