Shutdown odds grow as House GOP leaders reject Senate's spending bill – The Washington Post

A disability rights charity has said the government’s benefits crackdown is a “scandal in waiting” akin to the Post Office Horizon IT system debacle. This week, the government updated its welfare system “fraud plan” with an announcement of £70m funding for “advanced data analytics and new data sources to prevent fraud”. This will be used […]

MANILA (Reuters) – Police in the Philippines filed murder charges on Wednesday against a U.S. Marine over the death of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar outside the former U.S. naval base of Subic Bay. The Philippine government also wants to take custody of Private First Class …

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. We begin today with closing arguments set to begin this morning for The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. Hayes Brown of MSNBC looks at possibilities for the legal and political environment after a verdict is […]