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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders have agreed to hold votes on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies this week. One vote will be a measure that reflects President Donald Trump's offer to trade border wall funding for temporary protections for some immigrants. The second vote is set for a bill approved by the Democratic-controlled House reopening government through Feb. 8, with no wall money, to give bargainers time to talk.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles teachers have approved a contract deal between their union and school officials, ending a six-day strike in the nation's second-largest district. Although all votes haven't been counted, the union said Tuesday evening that a "supermajority" of its 30,000 members voted in favor of the tentative agreement.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with plans for President Donald Trump to deliver his State of the Union speech next week in front of a joint session of Congress _ despite a letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi requesting he delay it. The White House sent an email to the House Sergeant-at-Arms asking to schedule a walk-through for the speech in anticipation of a Jan. 29 delivery. That's according to a White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the planning.
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the White House has reached out to students at a Kentucky high school who became embroiled in an encounter with a Native American activist and a black religious sect that was captured on video. She says if the president does invite the students to the White House, it will be sometime after the government shutdown has concluded.
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani's latest media blitz, which was filled with a dizzying array of misstatements and hurried clarifications, agitated President Donald Trump and some of his allies, who have raised the possibility that the outspoken presidential lawyer be at least temporarily sidelined from televised interviews. Trump was frustrated with Giuliani, according to three White House officials and Republicans close to the White House not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
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