No deal yet but intensifying discussion as possible government shutdown looms Talks appear to be intensifying on Capitol Hill on reaching a deal on long-overdue legislation to finance the administration through the end of September and avoid a administration shutdown. Whether a shutdown can be avoided in three days' time is another matter.
A White House meeting Tuesday that included President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and governing body Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., failed to manufacture the hoped-for burst through, however, with a temporary solution government funding bill set to expire Friday at midnight.
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters poured into the streets of Egypt Friday, stoning and confronting police who fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas in the most violent and chaotic scenes yet in the challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Even a Nobel Peace laureate was soaked by water cannon and forced to take refuge in a mosque.
Groups of thousands of protesters, some chanting "out, out, out," gathered at at least six venues in Cairo, a city of about 18 million people, and many of them were on the move marching toward major squares and across Nile bridges. Security officials said there were protests in at least 11 of the country's 28 provinces.
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