When the clock strikes midnight, time runs out to stop a partial government shutdown.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday,

January 30th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Cast your mind back to October. That's when the federal government closed for the longest

period in U.S. history. Now, another shutdown is expected at the end of the day. But this time,

it's just a partial one. Six of 12 annual bills that fund the government have already been signed into law.

But the departments that are still unfunded make up the bulk of discretionary funding,

and they include some of the largest federal agencies, including the Defense Department,

and Health and Human Services. The hold-up this time has been over a Democratic demand to separate

out funding for the Department of Homeland Security after federal immigration authorities killed

Alex Prattie in Minneapolis. Senate Democrats said yesterday Republicans had agreed to that demand.

They will fund DHS for two weeks to give them time to hash out a deal to impose new restrictions on immigration enforcement.

But even if the Senate gets it done today, a short funding lapse is all but assured.

That's because the House, which is scheduled to be out of town until Monday, would also need to pass the bill.

Many federal prosecutors in Minneapolis are on the verge of quitting.

That's number two.

The federal judicial system in Minnesota has begun to crack under the strain of President Donald

Trump's immigration enforcement surge in the state. The Post reported yesterday that federal

prosecutors are deeply frustrated by the Justice Department's response to the fatal shootings of

Renee Good and Alex Pretty this month. At least one prosecutor resigned this week.

Others have suggested that they could resign en masse. That would leave the U.S. Attorney's Office in

Minnesota unable to handle its current caseload. And at least a half dozen prosecutors resigned

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