CRIME & LAW

Shutdown deepens, NBA arrests, new Russia sanctions

Nearly 1.5 million federal workers are unpaid as the shutdown reaches day 24, with the Senate blocking rival pay bills and everyday strain mounting; a Social Security employee describes taking loans and feeling shoved back under just as she surfaces. The FBI arrested more than 30 people, including Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Heat guard Terry Rozier, in an illegal gambling probe tied to leaked non-public information. And the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on Russia’s Rosneft and Lukoil, after reversing a planned Putin summit; Putin said the canceled meeting and sanctions undermined recent progress in relations.

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