What Shall We Bake Today?

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I found this recipe for Blueberry Bundt Cake that I can’t wait to try come blueberry season!!

Ingredients

2 cups white sugar

1 cup butter, softened

2 large eggs

1 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 ⅝ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

½ cup brown sugar

½ cup chopped pecans

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar for dusting

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9-inch Bundt pan.

Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in sour cream and vanilla extract. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into butter mixture until just blended. Fold in blueberries.

Spoon 1/2 of the batter into the prepared pan. Combine brown sugar, pecans, and cinnamon in a small bowl; sprinkle 1/2 of the mixture over batter in the pan.

Spoon remaining batter on top, then sprinkle over remaining pecan mixture. Use a knife or thin spatula to swirl the sugar layer into the cake.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. Let cake cool in the pan for 15 minutes before inverting. Invert carefully onto a serving plate; dust with confectioners’ sugar just before serving.

Enjoy!

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    1. Good Morning! Last day of month, April sure went fast! 40ish, clouds, but Finally had a nice sunrise. Whew! A sunrise definitely has effect on motivation 😁

      God Bless, have a great day 🙏

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    2. Good morning, Pat. There are some clouds to the east but the skies are clear everywhere else, 41 at the moment – but more rain is in the forecast. I swear I’m gonna get me a BB gun – I’ll prop open the patio door and sit there waiting to nail those POS blackbirds!!! No sign of Wheezer this morning and no indication he came and ate during the night.

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      1. Good Morning Filly!
        HA! I said the same to hubby!! but i wanna discourage the squirrels from coming up on the deck. I literally chased 2 yesterday and I came back in and there’s a third crawling on the railing!
        I know i won’t kill them–that’s okay–just wanna scare the crap out of them!

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  8. Viva Frei
    @thevivafrei
    Too many people are either ignorant of the facts, or being obtuse as relates to Comey’s “8647” (in shells!) Instagram post.

    It was not a simple “one-off” post. Faulty premise and factually incorrect.

    So everyone comparing it to Jack Posobiec’s 2022 tweet of “8646” is not comparing comparables.

    Also, not an irrelevant factor – Jack is not the former Director of the FBI!

    Posobiec’s tweet was stupid. And I would expect to be investigated and possibly charged if I were to ever post anything so stupid.

    That says, now back to it not being a “one-off” possibly ambiguous tweet:

    People are either unaware of, or ignoring the context of Comey’s Instagram post. It was not a “one-off”. It was actually the second in a series of three posts, all of which were connected, self-referential, and clearly deliberately so.

    Post 1: Comey at the beach, reading his new book, FDR Drive (image attached).

    Post 2: 8647 in shells. 

    Post 3: The summary of his new book which he is reading in Post 1. That summary: 

    “Garcia believes Buchanan went far beyond the protection of the first amendment when *he singled out his enemies by name* and *suggested “something should be done” about them*. His fans have obliged, killing or grievously, injuring some of his foes.”

    Comey is telling you exactly what he is doing.

    Reading his book.

    Singling out his enemies by name (as close as he can get) – 47 for Trump.

    Suggesting “something should be done about them” – 86 for kill or eliminate.

    And “his fans have obliged” from his book description that he posted.

    All of the elements are there to eliminate any ambiguity as to what common meant – sandwiching his 8647 in shells in between a picture of him reading his book, and a summary of his book – which has to do with calling out enemies by name, suggesting something should be done to them, and his fans obliging.

    The indictment is as bare bones as it can possibly get.

    I don’t know why. If I were drafting it, I would have included these details. But, according to some American attorneys, the indictment need not include every single allegation in it, just the essential.

    And this indictment should have been brought last year. I cannot possibly fathom what took 11 months to investigate.

    That said, anyone pretending there’s ambiguity, or pretending to offer serious analysis while ignoring or being unaware of the actual context – now deleted – of what Comey actually did (clearly setting out knowledge and intent) is either ignorant or dishonest. Either way, their opinions should be disregarded.

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  12. Huh….that’s weird! Wheezer finally showed up and I took some tuna out for him. He only ate about half of it and departed. He’s never done that before!!!

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  13. Oh, hell no! I cannot stand Jr. – his mouth with that stupid beard looks like an asshole!!!

    Just The News: “Amazon is reportedly considering rebooting President Donald Trump’s show “The Apprentice” and giving the hosting role to his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., sources told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The company is supposedly early in the planning process for the reboot and has not yet approached the Trump family, but it comes after Amazon’s streaming service began streaming the original program last year.

    The news also comes after Amazon bought the streaming rights to first lady Melania Trump’s documentary “Melania.”

    “Since our acquisition of MGM, we have had preliminary internal discussions about what’s next for ‘The Apprentice’ as a property,” an Amazon spokesman told the Wall Street Journal, adding that the show is not in active development.

    The Trump family has not commented on the potential reboot, but the original program, which launched the president to national fame, aired its first season in 2004 and drew over 20 million viewers a week in the first season alone.

    The move is in line with Amazon MGM Studios head Mike Hopkins’ push to broaden the streaming platform’s appeal and help it stand out from competitors like Netflix and Disney+. One way Hopkins has helped the platform stand out is by appealing to a faith-based audience with Biblical shows like “The Chosen” and “House of David.” 

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      1. Literally everything about him irks me, from his short stature to his hair to the way he holds his head. Just awful all the way around!!!

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  14. Just The News: “President Donald Trump said his call Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin included an offer for Russia to help with the conflict in Iran and the enrichment of uranium, which he declined in hopes of getting the war in Ukraine to end instead.

    The president expressed confidence that a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war could come “relatively quickly” after the call or that a ceasefire could take place while Russia hosts its Victory Day celebrations on May 9. 

    “I think he’d like to see a solution,” Trump told reporters at the White House after welcoming the four Artemis II astronauts. “I can tell you. And that’s good…..I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that. He might announce something having to do with it.”

    Putin is already expected to scale back Russia’s annual Victory Day parade this year by canceling its tanks that normally roll through Moscow’s Red Square, according to Politico.

    Trump also said Russia wants to help with the Iran conflict but that he declined the assistance in favor of Russia focusing on ending its four-year-long war with Ukraine. “He told me he’d like to be involved with the enrichment if he can help us get it,” Trump told reporters. “I said, I’d much rather have you be involved with ending the war with Ukraine. To me, that would be more important.”

    The president also hinted that the Iran conflict could wind down “on a similar timetable” as Russia’s war, but that peace negotiations are continuing for now, with the U.S. remaining insistent on Iran giving up its nuclear weapons ambitions. “They’ve come a long way,” Trump said of the Iranians. “The question is whether or not they’re going to go far enough. So at this moment, there will never be a deal unless they agree that there will be no nuclear weapons.”

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  15. “Dan Bongino reveals the moment inside the FBI that changed him forever. In this explosive conversation with Sean Hannity, he describes reading a classified document so disturbing it left him shaken—and fearing what comes next. What did he see? Why does he believe it proves something is deeply wrong? And why does he think “they’re coming for him” now?

    This is one of the most intense and revealing interviews Bongino has ever given—covering government power, hidden investigations, and the truth behind what really happens inside the FBI.”

    Just The News: “Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confessed in an interview Tuesday that he lives in constant fear that he’ll face retaliation after he shed light on corruption in the bureau and because of a document he found related to Crossfire Hurricane.

    Bongino, who left the bureau in January after roughly 10 months in the job, said he found the document in a burn bag that was related to the FBI probe into allegations of Russia collusion in President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

    The former deputy director claimed on the “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” podcast that the document was clearly meant to be destroyed because it contained information that was “basically the keys to the kingdom on Crossfire.”

    “It was the mother lode,” Bongino told Hannity. “And the document was so sensitive we were not even to carry it outside of the office. I will never be the same. I’m being as serious as a stroke right now. I’m really, I’m scared.

    “Don’t think for a second that I don’t think every day, and this is what’s really sad … that they’re going to come for me,” he added. “Like I’ll probably be in some federal prison. That’s what comes to my mind every day. I live like this the rest of my life because I know how they are.” 

    Bongino said the roughly 100-page document reshaped his understanding of the probe and that he was “scared” by how many people were involved and did not speak up.

    “I’m reading this document and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe this happened in the United States.’ It wasn’t just that it happened in the United States, it was that so many people knew about it,” he said. “All you had to do was read it. This thing was bulls— from the start. 

    “I was never the same after that, because after reading what I read about how many people did this to President Trump, this Russia hoax, collusion, Crossfire Hurricane bulls—, and not a single person stopped them, I’m terrified,”he added.

    Bongino did not go into detail on the classified information in the document, but burn bags are used to incinerate sensitive documents for security purposes.”

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    1. i dunno. what do you think?

      not saying he didn’t see something horrendous–but by announcing it, he has done 2 things: let “them” know he knows (which he could have kept his mouth shut about it all and let justice prevail) and he’s ginning up interest in his appearances (does he still have his own show?)

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  16. misdirected priorities!

    Isabella Maria DeLuca
    @IsabellaMDeLuca
    Meet Jocelyne Gagné — the woke Canadian judge who halted the deportation of the truck driver responsible for killing 16 hockey players because she was “concerned” about his mental health.

    Sidhu had already lost his permanent resident status and was set to be deported after serving time for the deadly Humboldt Broncos crash. 

    But just days before his removal, the court stepped in over concerns about the emotional impact deportation could have on him and his children.

    This is the state of modern Canada: the families of 16 dead victims get lifelong grief, while the courts prioritize the feelings of the man who killed them.

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  17. “A DIFFERENT COUNTRY: Watch Johnny Carson Open the 1981 Oscars After President Ronald Reagan Was Shot (VIDEO)”

    Gateway Pundit, by Mike LaChance Apr. 29, 2026

    Screencap of Twitter/X video.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “For days now, people across the country have been discussing the disgusting comments by late night host Kimmy Kimmel, who like Stephen Colbert, has turned his show into a personal hate machine against President Trump and is now claiming that his line about First Lady Melania looking like a ‘widow’ was just a joke.

    In response, an old clip of beloved late night host Johnny Carson has been going viral on social media. It shows Carson opening the 1981 Oscar Awards show right after President Ronald Reagan was shot and it reminds people of a very different time in this country.

    Carson never used his position or his show to advance his personal political beliefs. Most people did not even know what Carson’s politics were, and there was a reason for that. He did not want them to. Carson wanted to appeal to all Americans.

    FOX News did a report on this viral clip:

    Resurfaced clip of Johnny Carson’s grace after Reagan shooting contrasts with Kimmel

    Nearly half a century ago, comedian Johnny Carson chose unity over punchlines after an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

    A clip comparing Carson’s 1981 Oscars monologue to reactions to a recent attempt on President Donald Trump’s life has drawn nearly 800,000 views online.

    “I’m sure that all of you here and most of you watching tonight understand why we delayed this program for 24 hours,” Carson said in the video. “Because of the incredible events of yesterday, that old adage, the show must go on, seemed relatively unimportant.”…

    There are clear differences between the attempt on Reagan and Trump. Reagan was seriously wounded and returned to the White House after 12 days in the hospital.

    “The Academy, ABC television and all of us connected with the show felt because of the uncertain outcome as of this time yesterday, it would have been inappropriate to stage a celebration,” Carson added.

    The host noted the president’s resilience, saying he was in “excellent condition” and still “conducting business.” He shared that Reagan was making jokes from his hospital bed while struggling to speak.

    “You must remember, this is a man who yesterday, while he was in the hospital, unable to speak, wrote on a sheet of paper, ‘All things considered, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.’ So tonight, the show does go on,” Carson said.

    Watch the clip, this is amazing:

    Carson was a man of such class. Can we get back to this America?”

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  20. I sure hope they don’t do that in the Norfolk store! I ALWAYS use the self-checkout lanes!!!! SMDH

    And you thought you were having a bad day?”

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  22. “This was no video game for these kids…

    These kids are anything but ‘the usual suspects.’ Somebody obviously did a good job of parenting. This on-board camera video shows the moment quick-thinking Mississippi middle schoolers worked together to stop their school bus from crashing after the driver passed out behind the wheel on a four-lane highway.

    Security footage obtained by ABC News shows the five Hancock Middle School students bravely stepping up and bringing the bus to a stop after spotting driver Leah Taylor’s head hanging limply after she suffered a medical episode while barreling down a highway in rural Kiln on April 22.

    “She kind of fell over, like flopped over, and everyone started standing up,” one of the brave students, McKenzy Finch, told WLOX. Sixth-grader Jackson Casnave, 12, said he grabbed hold of the steering wheel after he “saw the bus was veering off to the side.” Meanwhile, fellow sixth-grader Darrius Clark, 12, slammed the brakes.

    “The bus started rolling forward. It started like, gaining speed, so when I clicked the brakes, it about threw me out the windshield,” Darrius said.

    The students were celebrated at a pep rally Friday and will be treated to a lunch field trip next week at a restaurant of their choosing.”

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  23. 🔴 Amazon Is Now Making Auroras

    SpaceX started it. Now Amazon joined. A rocket launch for Amazon’s satellite network created a red glow in the upper atmosphere — essentially an artificial aurora.

    Taken by James Perez-Rogers on April 27, 2026 @ Ashokan Reservoir, New York

    Cause:

    • rocket exhaust (H₂O + CO₂)
    • ionosphere chemistry
    • oxygen ion reactions

    Result: A temporary red sky, identical in color to natural auroras. 239 satellites up there now. The sky is becoming… infrastructure.”

    🐝 Bees Turned Into Weapons

    A woman in Massachusetts used a swarm of bees to attack deputies during an eviction. Yes. Weaponized bees. Nature as a tactical system.

    👉 https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/04/woman-weaponized-a-swarm-of-bees-against-deputies-trying-to-carry-out-an-eviction.html

    🧊 Giant Hail Falls in Texas

    “Hail up to 13 cm (5 inches) fell in Texas. That’s not weather. That’s falling projectiles.”

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  25. WeThePeople2016

    April 30, 2026 12:27 pm

    JUST IN: The US House has PASSED an amendment to the Farm Bill that BANS America’s foreign adversaries from buying USA farmland

    REP. STEUBE: “Over 45 million acres of U.S. agricultural land are already owned by foreign investors, and it’s growing! Why would we allow China, Russia, Iran, and other hostile regimes to control land in the United States?”

    “It makes zero sense why we would allow our enemies to own AMERICAN land. It should never have been allowed in the first place.”

    Join @SGTnewsNetwork

    Video:

    https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/135906

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  29. “France: New real estate browser extension provides data on immigration levels, insecurity, and Islamization rates directly on real estate listings. The French website identifies the presence of asylum accommodations, troubled QPV districts, and provides the number of mosques”

    ReMix News, April 30, 2026

    EXCERPT: “A French website and real estate browser extension for Chrome is promoting an unusual data offering, which includes information on immigration levels, insecurity, and Islamization rates — all factors that real estate buyers may want to take into consideration before they make an investment.

    The OVMF assigns various scores “automatically in real estate ad photos,” according to the company behind the extension, which is free and collects no data from its users, according to the website.

    The OVMF also promises to highlight certain facilities in the area or neighborhood, which some real estate buyers may want to be aware of, such as asylum accommodations, troubled QPV districts, and the number of mosques in an area.

    The OVMF site appears to have an enormous amount of data, such as the number of migrants in accommodation facilities, the number of different religious groups, and immigration levels for each neighborhood.

    In extremely multicultural cities, the site tracks granular data such as the evolution of first names, which it uses to point out the categories of “African names,” “Traditional French names,” “Modern French names,” and “Muslim names,” as well as other categories…..”

    https://rmx.news/article/france-new-real-estate-browser-extension-provides-data-on-immigration-levels-insecurity-and-islamization-rates-directly-on-real-estate-listings/

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  30. Just The News: “Congress on Thursday passed legislation to fund Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies that don’t deal with immigration, ending a 76-day shutdown.

    The legislation funds the Coast Guard, TSA, Secret Service, FEMA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other agencies, Politico reported. President Donald Trump is expected to sign it.

    The bill did not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Border Patrol. Republicans are planning a reconciliation package to separately approve funding for those agencies for the rest of Trump’s term. 

    Using reconciliation would allow the Senate to bypass its 60-vote filibuster threshold and pass the funding without Democratic support.

    The One Big, Beautiful Bill included funding for ICE and CBP, meaning the shutdown generally did not affect those agencies. Democrats had sought to extract policy concessions from the administration, but ultimately did not secure their demands.”

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  31. Walt Disney oils the engine Lilly Belle for his backyard railroad (”The Carolwood Pacific”), at his home in Holmby Hills, California, 1953.

    Looks very cozy

    Labs are water dogs, and very friendly

    1928 Hollywood, California.

    The dog’s a spinner

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  32. That Hair…

    How would you like to have this waiting for you in your driveway?

    The Door to Hell, Turkmenistan. In 1971, Soviet scientists set fire to a crater to stop methane gas from spreading, expecting it to burn for just a few days. But it’s been burning for more than 53 years.

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  36. talked to Mom…my 2 cousins visited her yesterday and spent the afternoon. made her so happy! she said her sides still hurt today from all the laughing they did!

    I just wrote out thank you cards to them.

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  38. “Who Is Nicole Saphier? A working assessment of the new Surgeon General nominee, from a MAHA vantage point”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Apr 30, 2026

    EXCERPT: “President Trump withdrew the Casey Means nomination yesterday afternoon, blamed Senator Cassidy, and within minutes named Dr. Nicole B. Saphier of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as his third Surgeon General nominee in fifteen months.

    The first MAHA-base reaction I have seen, online and in my inbox, has been something between “who?” and “Fox News pick — sellout.” I want to push back on the second reaction before it hardens, because the documentary record on Saphier is genuinely more interesting than the press coverage has so far conveyed, and the right MAHA reading of her is not the obvious one.

    This piece is a working assessment, not a verdict. The Senate confirmation process is going to surface more than the public record currently shows. What follows is what I have been able to learn in the twenty-four hours since the nomination, the parts of her record that bear directly on MAHA’s questions, and the things I think are worth watching as she goes through the committee.

    The fact that reframes the rest

    Saphier wrote a book called Make America Healthy Again in 2020.

    That is not a typo, and it is not a coincidence. The full title is Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis. It came out from HarperCollins’s Broadside Books imprint on April 21, 2020, and it was a national bestseller.

    The argument is that American healthcare spending has spiraled past seventeen percent of GDP because the system reimburses acute-care intervention rather than prevention, and because Americans themselves have allowed personal-responsibility habits — diet, alcohol, sedentary lifestyle — to drive the chronic-disease curve that the federal architecture is then asked to manage.

    Her data points include the figures the MAHA movement has been citing for two years: roughly eighty percent of cardiovascular disease and forty percent of all cancer cases preventable through lifestyle change; nearly one in five American deaths associated with poor diet; the federal government spending over a trillion dollars annually on healthcare. She makes those points five years before “Make America Healthy Again” was the political brand of an HHS Secretary.

    The book is not Kennedy’s book. The causal emphasis is different. Saphier writes from a Fox-News-aligned conservative-health-policy register, and her policy targets are the Affordable Care Act, Medicare-for-all proposals, and third-party-payer fee-for-service incentives. Kennedy’s targets, when MAHA was forming, were environmental toxins, agricultural chemistry, pharmaceutical regulatory capture, and the autism epidemic.

    Both frameworks land on the same operational fact — that American chronic-disease costs are the principal public-health problem of the period and that the federal architecture is structurally mismatched to addressing it — but they get there through different doors.

    Here is the thing that matters for MAHA. The vocabulary was already in the conservative-health-policy bloodstream before Kennedy took it up. There was a 2020 conservative-health-policy book using exactly that title, with exactly that diagnostic premise, and it was a bestseller. The MAHA movement did not invent the framing; it organized a much broader political coalition around a framing that was already partly there. Saphier was one of the people writing in that register before the political brand consolidated.

    That is a fact worth sitting with.

    Her clinical record, briefly…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/who-is-nicole-saphier

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  39. Red Headed and Haughty

    Harrison Ford during the filming of The Fugitive‘s parade scene, 1993.

    Jaguar momma and 2 babies

    Well, that hadda hurt

    A Spokane Woman. 1897

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  40. This door in Westminster Abbey is older than most modern nation-states. Made in the 1050s from an English oak. But does it squeak annoyingly when opened?

    Watching the waves roll in in a two tone green station wagon.

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  41. H/T Rodney

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  43. H/T Rodney

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  44. Just The News: “President Donald Trump signed a bill Thursday afternoon that formally ends the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

    The legislation funds the Coast Guard, TSA, Secret Service, FEMA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other agencies, but does not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Border Patrol.

    Republicans are planning a reconciliation package to separately approve funding for ICE and Border Patrol for the remainder of Trump’s term. 

    The signing, which comes after the House passed the legislation earlier Thursday, officially ends the partial government shutdown after 76 days by providing funding for the agencies through the rest of the fiscal year.” 

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