U.S. Senate passes huge spending bill to avert gov't shutdown

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WASHINGTON DC, USA – The US Senate passed a $1.3 trillion federal spending bill in dramatic dark-of-night fashion early Friday, March 23, overcoming hurdles that threatened to send the government into its 3rd shutdown of 2018.

Lawmakers stared down a self-imposed deadline of midnight Friday, when federal funding was ... via PK