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 | Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., slammed the Trump administration for excluding Democrats from briefings on strikes targeting alleged drug boats, calling the move "dangerous." 
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 | States have sued the federal government to force the release of aid during the shutdown, with a key hearing set for Thursday. 
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 | A federal judge in Boston seemed skeptical of the Trump administration's plan to stop funding the SNAP food aid program amid the government shutdown. 
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