Stopgap funding bill passed by u. s. house

WASHINGTON » In a sweeping bipartisan vote that takes a government shutdown off the table, the House passed a temporary government- wide funding bill Tuesday night, shortly after President Donald Trump prevailed in a behind- thescenes fight over his farm bailout.

The stopgap measure will keep federal agencies fully up and running into December. The budget year ends Sept. 30.

The 359- 57 vote came after behind- the- scenes battling over proposed add- ons. The final agreement gives the administration continued immediate authority to dole out Agriculture Department subsidies in the run- up to Election Day.

Cindy McCain endorses Biden.

Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain of Arizona, formally endorsed Joe Biden for president Tuesday, praising the “character and integrity” of her late husband’s longtime friend and colleague while voicing her unease with President Donald Trump.

McCain, who spoke in a video at the Democratic convention last month, said in a telephone interview that she had been uncertain about how public a role she would play in this year’s campaign. But after reading reports this month that described Trump denigrating members of the military, she said, she became “more and more frustrated” with the president.

“The most important thing that moved me a great deal was talking about troops’ being ‘ losers,’ ” McCain said, referring to an article in The Atlantic. “You know we have children in the military, as did the Bidens.”

Prosecutors: Ricin suspect threatened to kill Trump.

A Canadian woman who was arrested on suspicion of mailing the lethal substance ricin to the White House wanted President Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race and pledged to find other ways to assassinate him if her poisoning plot failed, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.

The woman, Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, has been charged by the Justice Department with threatening to kill the president. A federal judge entered a not guilty plea for Ferrier in a brief appearance on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Buffalo, N. Y.

U. S. government executes killer.

TERRE HAUTE, IND. » The U. S. government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him.

William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was pronounced dead at 9: 06 p. m. EDT after receiving a lethal injection at the same U. S. prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where five others have been executed in 2020 following a 17- year period without a federal execution.