- The House narrowly avoided another shutdown fiasco with a 219-206 vote to pass a funding bill through next year, but the bill faces substantial Senate opposition.
- A time capsule from Boston's colonial era has been dug up from under the Massachusetts State House, originally buried by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.
- Dozens of congressional staffers walked out of the Capitol on Thursday in a "hands up, don't shoot" posture to show solidarity with supporters of slain Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
- Crude oil prices have now dropped below $60 a barrel as the International Energy Agency has cut their demand forecast for the fourth time in just five months.
- The FCC may have folded on net neutrality, but has decreed that in order to receive subsidies for rural broadband development that carriers have to offer a minimum of 10Mbps speeds.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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