House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CBS News that Democrats will still press to extend a slate of expiring health insurance subsidies as a 43-day-long shutdown nears a potential end.
"After I'd had my own baby, I then began to understand mother chimps much better," Jane Goodall told 60 Minutes in 2010. "Now I'm responsible for this new little life." The renowned conservationist and mother to son Hugo, nicknamed "Grub," died October 1 at the age of 91. She was honored Wednesday with a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral.
A federal judge has ordered that hundreds of people detained by ICE be released from federal facilities in the next week because their arrests were possibly unlawful and in violation of a federal court order.
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona addressed the House for the first time on Wednesday shortly after her swearing-in ceremony. Grijalva thanked her immigrant grandfather, slammed the Trump administration's ICE policies and criticized the delay of her swearing-in ceremony.
