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ALMOST two million US civil servants went without pay today after Congress failed to agree a budget.
However, just as the Star went to press last night, it appeared that the Senate had passed a short-term funding Bill to cover spending until February 8, after extracting a promise from Republican leaders to address the fate of people covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) scheme.
Democrats want the Obama-era scheme, which protects almost 700,000 people brought to the US illegally as children from deportation, to be extended.
Trade unions and community groups are mobilising to push back against Trump’s racist raids after new revelations of spying on legal protesters. MARK GRUENBERG reports from the US state of Minnesota
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter