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You can avoid a shutdown, even if a shutdown occurs that it would be ended particularly quickly.

Plus, Senator Diane Feinstein dies at the age of 90, and the United Auto Workers Union expands its strike.

It's Friday, September 29th.

I'm Amary Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.

Diane Feinstein, the longest serving woman senator in U.S. history, has died at age 90.

Feinstein was the first female mayor of San Francisco.

She was elected to the Senate in 1992 and represented the state for more than three decades.

In that time, she spearheaded a ban on assault-style weapons and investigated the CIA's use of torture

after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Feinstein's death leaves Democrats with a narrower 50-49 majority in the Senate.

California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom will name her interim successor.

Meanwhile, in Washington, House lawmakers have rejected Speaker Kevin McCarthy's bid to avert a government shutdown

with some GOP lawmakers joining all Democrats in voting against it.

Even if it had cleared the Republican-led House, the measure was designed to unite the GOP

and had virtually no chance of clearing the Senate where Democrats hold a slim majority.

Congress is nearing the deadline to reach a spending deal, or come October 1st, that Sunday,

the federal government will shut down.

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