Will there be another government shutdown in January? A Senate vote looms, here's what prediction markets say, and the latest updates.

The House is voting Thursday on the remaining bills to fund the government as the deadline to avoid another shutdown nears.

A proposed constitutional amendment would enshrine the ability to gather in places of worship, even during a state of emergency, a measure that arose after Gov. Tony Evers prohibited gatherings larger than 10 people inside churches during the COVID pandemic.

Senate Democrats are ready to break a fragile truce that would avert a partial government shutdown after a Minneapolis man was fatally shot by a border patrol agent Saturday.

Lawmakers at the U.S. House of Representatives voted to lift a federal ban on mining in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, setting up another vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.

In Alaska, Ohio, North Carolina and Maine, Democrats have fielded Senate candidates who won statewide office before, raising expectations to flip seats.