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WASHINGTON -- The House Thursday passed a huge spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September sidestepping any threat of a government shutdown. The bipartisan 318-109 vote sends the measure President Barack Obama to be signed into law.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79. Here is the story that ran in The Times last year on his close friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia seem unlikely friends.

Though both grew up in New York City and graduated from Ivy League law schools, Scalia went on to become a lawyer in the Nixon administration and a

Parliament will be suspended just days after MPs return to work in September - and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline.

Boris Johnson said a Queen's Speech would take place after the suspension, on 14 October, to outline his "very exciting agenda".

But it means the time MPs have to pass laws to stop a no-deal Brexit on 31 October would be cut.

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Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg approached Xi Jinping at a White House dinner and asked if the Chinese president would honor him and his wife, Priscilla, by giving their soon-to-be-born child an honorary Chinese name. Xi declined, but Facebook still continued trying to break into China’s heavily restricted, but potentially very lucrative, internet market. The next year, Zuckerberg was famously