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A stopgap spending bill meant to avert a government shut down,

appears to have the backing to survive a Senate test vote.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said he intends to vote

yes on the measure, saying blocking it would mean far worse consequences for Americans.

Eight Democrats appear to have joined Republicans to get to a 60-vote threshold needed to advance

the measure. An unusual appearance before an agency that helped prosecute him. President Donald Trump

today blasted top law enforcement officials. Speaking of the Justice Department, Trump said

under his administration, things will be different. Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice

into the Department of Injustice, but I stand before you today to declare that those days are over

and they are never going to come back.

They're never coming back.

Trump's speech before a department that twice indicted him during his years out of power and accused him of illegally storing classified documents at his Florida club.

Both cases were dropped by special counsel Jack Smith after Trump won the election, citing DOJ policy that prohibits prosecuting a sitting president.

Outrage and fear are spreading at Columbia University after the Department of Homeland Security searched two campus residences.

And B.R.'s Adrian Fleur reports it comes less than a week after immigration agents arrested a prominent Palestinian student

activist. Columbia's interim president Katrina Armstrong emailed students and staff saying she was

heartbroken to tell them that DHS agents had searched to campus apartments Thursday night. According to

her note, no one was arrested or detained and no items were removed. She said the school had to allow the agents in because they had assigned judicial warrant.

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