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When President Donald Trump signed the funding package that ended a partial government shutdown on Feb. 3, another clock started ticking.

Republicans and Democrats have a Feb. 13 deadline to strike a new deal on appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), now covered by a very brief continuing resolution.

The department's components include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol, the Transportation Security Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Coast Guard funding is also affected by the DHS bill.

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Canman Carney wants his majority.

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Former St. Cloud City Councilman Jeff Johnson, a Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, suspended his campaign on Monday after his 22-year-old daughter was savagely stabbed to death.

The Republican Party of Minnesota confirmed Johnson was dropping out and stressed that the group is "heartbroken by the tragic loss of Dr. Jeff Johnson's daughter, who was killed in a violent crime Saturday night in St. Cloud."

"There are no words that can adequately express the sorrow we feel for Jeff and his family," continued the Minnesota GOP. "The loss of a child is unimaginable, and our thoughts and prayers are with them as they grieve this devastating tragedy."

The City of St. Cloud Police Department indicated that officers responded on Saturday evening to a report of a medical emergency at the apartment of Johnson's daughter, Hallie Marie Tobler, where they found her dead with multiple stab wounds.

Dylan Tobler, her 23-year-old husband, was also found at the scene with life-threatening injuries that police believe to have been self-inflicted. Although initially taken to St. Cloud Hospital for treatment, police indicated Dylan Tobler — who is now in stable condition — will later be transported to the Stearns County Jail, "where he will be held for court on charges related to the homicide."

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This is the best excuse they can come up with to keep cheating in elections.

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The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including reparations for damage caused by any nation that fails to take action.

In guidance issued this week to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, the State Department said it "strongly objects" to the proposal being discussed by the U.N. General Assembly and that its adoption "could pose a major threat to U.S. industry."

"President Trump has delivered a very clear message: that the U.N. and many nations of the world have gone wildly off track, exaggerating climate change into the world's greatest threat," according to the cable sent Tuesday and obtained by The Associated Press.

The draft resolution is sponsored by Vanuatu.