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The House is passing a six-month funding bill to prevent a government shutdown. The bill narrowly passed 217-to-213 on Tuesday, with all but one Republican supporting the six-month stopgap measure. The proposal now heads to the Senate, where its fate remains uncertain. The government shutdown deadline is Friday night.        The Department of Education is being gutted. Staff received an email Tuesday notifying them they had to vacate the department's headquarters by 6 p.m. The email said the closure was "for security reasons." Just a few hours later, a senior department official announced over 13-hundred staffers received notifications that they're being fired.        Oklahoma is the latest state to report positive cases of measles. The state's department of health says two people began showing symptoms after being exposed to measles cases associated with the outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. Texas has reported over two-hundred cases of the highly contagious disease, while New Mexico is up to 33.        Protestors in Chicago and New York City want a Columbia student to be released. Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by ICE agents over the weekend who told him his green card was being revoked. More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to the Trump administration today also demanding Khalil's release. President Trump said yesterday that Khalil's arrest is the first of many to come.        A federal judge is blocking Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution. Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. have argued the method of execution would violate his constitutional rights. Since Hoffman is a Buddhist, his team argued the use of a face mask to deliver the nitrogen gas "substantially burdens" his ability to engage in his religious breathing practices and causes unnecessary "pain and suffering."        Seasons one through seven of Donald Trump's long-running reality show "The Apprentice" will now be available on Amazon. The idea of the show was to gather hopeful candidates to compete to become an apprentice at The Trump Organization for a 250-thousand dollar salary. The series originally aired on NBC and now can be found on Prime Video with new episodes every Monday.       

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