| What's happening in Washington today? Plenty, as usual. |
| House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi began speaking at 10:04 a.m. ET Wednesday and was still going more than seven hours later. The California Democrat said she would oppose a budget deal to avert a government shutdown, then started a talk-a-thon to protest inaction on legislation to protect DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States when they children. She has water to stay hydrated, but is she wearing sneakers for comfort? What if she needs to take a bathroom break? Back to that budget deal she's opposes : Senate Democrats and Republicans struck a sweeping deal Wednesday to set federal government spending levels for the next two years and eliminate the stream of government shutdown threats. The bitter fight over spending wound up with a fairly simple solution by the senators: more money for everybody's priorities. Here's what is in the deal. |
| • | Also from Washington: White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned following reports that he abused two ex-wives. One ex alleged Porter choked, punched and emotionally abused her during their five-year marriage. The other said he verbally abused her on their 2009 honeymoon and once dragged her out of the shower. Porter says the allegations are "simply false," but he is stepping down once there is a successor. | |
| Elon Musk sent a Tesla and a 'Starman' to space. We can't stop talking about it |
| SpaceX launched our collective imaginations with Starman, sitting at the wheel of a red Tesla convertible. The photo of the ultra-cool dummy with Earth in the background is incredible. Starman (in a fully functioning spacesuit, no less) is now up there for hundreds of millions of years following Tuesday's launch of Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. You can check out the livestream to see what he's up to now. Worth noting: The rocket's two side boosters, which each had launched missions in 2016, successfully flew back and landed at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — meaning they can be reused, a key to making space travel more affordable. |
| #MustRead: Two women say the Marines did nothing after they complained of sexually explicit advances by an officer |
| Two civilian officials with the Marine Corps say their boss, a Marine officer, repeatedly made sexually explicit advances to them at work, and their complaints to leadership were minimized, according to interviews and documents exclusively obtained by USA TODAY. |
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| Dog meat, barfing, Pence and the figure skater: The Olympics so far |
| These stories from Pyeongchang, South Korea, have us talking today ... |
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| Trump loves a military parade |
| President Trump has wanted to watch tanks and soldiers march down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue since before his inauguration. And now he's set the wheels in motion to make it happen. The White House confirmed Tuesday that Trump asked the Pentagon to start making plans for a military "celebration. " The president reportedly told senior military staff, "I want a parade like the one in France," referring to last year's Bastille Day parade, which made a big impression on him. While critics lament the costs, logistical nightmares and a potential "Napoleon in the making," the federal government has actually sponsored many military parades over the years — just not lately. |
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