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Debate on a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt limit and impose spending caps moved on Thursday to the Senate, where leaders of both parties were racing to shut down efforts to derail it in time to clear it for President Biden’s signature before a potential government default on Monday. The morning after the House overwhelmingly passed legislation , Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said the Senate would remain in session until it approved the package. He warned lawmakers against engaging in brinkmanship before the so-called X-date , when Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen has said the government will run out of cash to pay its bills. “Time is a luxury the Senate does not have if we want to prevent default,” Mr. Schumer said. “June 5 is less than four days away. At this point, any needless delay or any last-minute holdups would be an unnecessary and even dangerous risk.” But the timetable for Senate action was in flux, with officials … [Read more...] about Debt Limit Fight Moves to the Senate as Default Date Nears

See the article in its original context from April 21, 2000 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Lux Lisbon, one of the five self-doomed sisters whose lissome dance toward extinction is the subject of Sofia Coppola's first movie (and of Jeffrey Eugenides's first novel, on which it is based), is first glimpsed in the act of finishing a red Popsicle. As played -- incarnated might be a better word -- by Kirsten Dunst, Lux is at once a blond icon of girlish suburban innocence and an emblem of womanly eroticism. Like Sue Lyon in Stanley Kubrick's ''Lolita,'' with her lollipop and her heart-shaped sunglasses, Ms. Dunst turns Lux's every glance and gesture into an ambiguous provocation. In Mr. Eugenides's book, and in the script Ms. Coppola has reverently carved from it, Lux and her sisters exist only insofar as they are the objects of masculine desire, which upon their deaths … [Read more...] about FILM REVIEW; Evanescent Trees and Sisters In an Enchanted 1970’s Suburb

See the article in its original context from November 3, 1986 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. THERE comes a time when a satirical writer, if he's really out for blood, must stop clowning around and move in for the kill. That unmistakable moment of truth arrives about halfway through ''The Colored Museum,'' the wild new evening of black black humor at the Public Theater. In a sketch titled ''The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play,'' the author, George C. Wolfe, says the unthinkable, … [Read more...] about STAGE: ‘COLORED MUSEUM,’ SATIRE BY GEORGE C. WOLFE

close Video McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling bill heads to the Senate Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram shares what's next after the House of Representatives passed the debt ceiling bill on 'Fox News @ Night.' The Senate could vote on the bipartisan bill to raise the debt ceiling and cut federal spending as early as Thursday night, which would let Congress send it to President Biden just days before the U.S. government is expected to run out of cash on June 5. "There’s not a lot of appetite to drag this out. Nothing is locked in yet, but right now we’re working through the list of amendments and trying to reach a time agreement," a Senate leadership aide told Fox News Digital on Thursday morning. "As far as timing goes, there’s no reason we couldn’t do everything by tonight. That doesn’t mean that we will, but there’s a lot of appetite to move pretty quickly." Several senators have already signaled they are looking to add … [Read more...] about Senate could vote on debt ceiling deal as early as Thursday night: Source

close Video Woman rescued from partially collapsed Iowa apartment building Video captures the dramatic rescue of a woman from a partially collapsed apartment building in Iowa Credit: Quad City Fire Wire / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX A woman who lived in an Iowa apartment building that partially collapsed on Sunday afternoon was freed – but only after rescuers determined one of her legs would need to be amputated to pull her from the rubble. Quanishia "Peach" Berry and her wife Lexus Berry had been running toward the door of their fourth-floor apartment, but the apartment had disappeared, and Lexus ran by herself to a stairwell. "The moment that we hit the door, it started to shake and rattle and literally — it all just happened in the blink of a second – the floors caved in, like collapsed," Lexus Berry told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "So as the floors were falling, and she was falling four stories down, there were still two stories above her … [Read more...] about Davenport, Iowa apartment building collapse: Woman freed after leg is amputated

close Video Schumer pushes citizenship for illegal immigrants as US birth rate drops Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer claimed that the solution to America’s declining birth rate was to grant a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants that are currently in the country. The U.S. birth rate held steady in 2022 without returning to pre-pandemic levels, as women are having babies at an older age, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report revealed Thursday. Record low birth rates were seen when it comes to moms in their teens and early 20s, with the birth rates among women age 40 and older continue to rise, according to the new CDC analysis of more than 99% of birth certificates issued last year. Births to moms 35 and older also continued to rise last year, with the highest rates in that age group since the 1960s, the CDC found. A little under 3.7 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, about 3,000 … [Read more...] about US birth rate held steady in 2022 below pre-COVID levels, women having babies at older age: CDC