The Senate on Thursday night passed a stopgap spending bill to avert a U.S. government shutdown, sending the measure to President Joe Biden for his signature.

The California Public Utilities Commission approved the penalties for violations linked to the start of the 2019 Kincade fire, which burned more than 77,000 acres in Sonoma County.

The bill now goes to President Biden for his signature ahead of the Friday night deadline.

The Senate struck a last-minute deal that greenlighted a vote on a GOP amendment to defund Biden’s vaccine mandates in exchange for swift passage of the funding bill.

The Associated Students of the University of Oregon, the university's student government, is proposing that every student should be required to take a course on critical race theory in order to graduate.