The second-longest government shutdown enters its 24th day with Congress out of session and the funding lapse heading toward next week.

The stopgap bill, which would extend government funding until Nov. 21, was defeated after a 49-45 vote. It required 60 votes to pass and has now extended the shutdown to two weeks. The Senate will reconvene and vote again on Oct. 15, marking the ninth voting session on the funding bill.

The president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.

Two B-1 Bombers flew from the U.S. to about 50 miles from the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, according to a defense official and flight tracker data for the aircraft.

In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say the U.S. military has killed at least 37 people in strikes against drug-smuggling vessels off the coast of South America.

The United States Senate has confirmed Chad Meredith from Lexington to serve as a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Two people on an alleged drug smuggling boat were recovered and detained by the Navy Thursday after the vessel was destroyed.

Colorado and Virginia are two states that lean Democratic, though both have shown some purple tendencies in the past. Democratic leaders in the two states have signaled a new willingness to redraw their Congressional maps in recent days following new efforts in North Carolina and Indiana led by Republicans.