House Votes To Avert Federal Shutdown, Senate Chances Dim

WASHINGTON — On the edge of a government shutdown, a divided House voted late Thursday to keep the government open past a Friday deadline — setting up an 11th-hour standoff in the Senate, where Democrats have vowed to kill the measure.The partisan roadblock in the GOP-controlled Senate left just a day and little hope for negotiators searching for a way to avoid shuttering federal offices and keeping thousands of employees home from work.

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