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U.S. Mail service mail delivery is well-nigh to become permanently slower and temporarily more expensive. Volition the government close down this week? And Gabby Petito'south family unit remains confident the FBI volition find Brian Laundrie.

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USPS mail delivery is about to become slower

If yous've been frustrated with the boring service of the Mail since the beginning of the pandemic, you lot probably won't be thrilled to hear this: The service is about to become fifty-fifty slower. Starting Friday, the Postal Service volition "implement new service standards for First Class Mail and Periodicals," meaning an increased time-in-transit for post traveling long distances, such as from New York to California. The USPS said that "almost first class mail (61%) and periodicals (93%) will exist unaffected" past the changes. Additionally, starting Sunday through Dec. 26, the Mail will temporarily increase prices on all commercial and retail domestic packages because of the holiday season and its increment in post volume. The changes to service standard times are part of USPS' 10-year strategic programme, which was announced by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in March, cartoon heavy criticism from elected officials. The USPS has been riddled with financial issues for years, and the coronavirus pandemic has only worsened the situation.

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Congress scrambles every bit government shutdown looms

Congressional Democrats are scrambling Tuesday to extend funding for the federal government with less than 72 hours left to avoid a shutdown. A shutdown would happen Fri if a bill to fund the authorities doesn't pass both the Firm and Senate. Senate Republicans blocked a Autonomous endeavour to combine regime funding with an increment in the amount the country can borrow. The debt limit, which the land is projected to attain in mid-Oct, is another pending crunch. Democrats argue information technology's irresponsible to block an increase in the debt limit, but Republicans contend the Democrats must approve it on their own. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., proposed Monday to vote on government funding alone, without an increment in the debt limit. Just he needed unanimous consent to argue the proposal and Democrats objected. Grab up on the latest updates here.

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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 27, 2021, in Washington. The Senate is working on passing a funding bill for the U.S. government and an increase to the debt ceiling before a possible government shutdown at the end of the week.

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Petito family confident FBI volition find Laundrie

The family of Gabby Petito, 22, whose death during a cantankerous-country trip sparked global outcry and a search for her missing fiancé, is honoring her legacy through matching tattoos and by bringing attention to other missing people cases. Petito'south family said Tuesday at a news conference that they are confident the FBI will detect Petito's fiance, Brian Laundrie. Petito's female parent and father shared that family members got tattoos matching their daughter's "Let it be" inked onto their skin beside a wave symbol. The family announced the Gabby Petito Foundation to aid find other missing people, emphasizing that they all deserve the same level of attention Petito got. Laundrie was terminal seen about 2 weeks ago when he said he was going hiking in the Carlton Reserve, a sprawling wilderness area near his habitation in North Port, Florida.

Manhunt for Laundrie scaled back; FBI collects items for 'Deoxyribonucleic acid matching.'
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Gabby Petito's family announced they're setting up a foundation to help find missing persons.

Capital Gazette gunman gets more than 5 life sentences

A man who killed five people at a paper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 5 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Anne Arundel County Judge Michael Wachs ordered the judgement for Jarrod Ramos, whom a jury previously found criminally responsible for killing Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen and Rebecca Smith with a shotgun at the Upper-case letter Gazette's office in June 2018. Ramos had pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible to all 23 counts against him in 2019, using Maryland's version of an insanity defense. Earlier announcing the sentence, the judge noted that Ramos showed no remorse for the crimes and even told a state psychiatrist he would kill more if he were ever released. Ramos, who sat in court wearing a black mask, declined to make a statement.

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Ghost town uncovered in Utah

A glimpse of history was recently uncovered in Utah in the form of a ghost town called Rockport. The foundations of Rockport are now above h2o as the Rockport Reservoir reaches its everyman levels since being filled 64 years ago, due to extreme drought. As of Sept. one, it was at 29% capacity; it was at 82% chapters last yr, according to the Utah Division of Water Resources. The drought in Utah has brought the ghost town dorsum after years underwater. Just 27 families were living in the area in the 1950s when the federal government bought the land to build the Wanship Dam, which is now Rockport Reservoir, the Parks and Recreation Division said. The dam was built between 1954 and 1957, and the boondocks of Rockport was then flooded and the reservoir was created. What's left of the ghost town? Old foundations of homes – and even a road – were seen in drone footage of the dry reservoir. Check it out here.

Old foundations show Rockport, a town that has been underwater for 60 years in Utah.

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