WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is preparing to vote on legislation that would keep the government open beyond next Wednesday's deadline at a price Democrats are certain to reject — stripping taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood.
The stopgap spending bill is widely expected to fail Thursday. The next steps aren't set in stone, although Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has promised there won't be a government shutdown. That suggests he would soon press ahead with a stopgap measure that's free of the Planned Parenthood dispute.
NEW YORK (AP) — A landscape Vincent van Gogh created a year before his death will lead Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sale in New York this fall.
"Landscape Under a Stormy Sky," painted in 1889, depicts a field in Arles in the south of France.
