The Senate passed a continuing resolution with bipartisan support late Friday , avoiding a government shutdown.

The spending bill funds the government through September of this year .

The bill was in some doubt as Senate Democrats wavered over whether to fight the bill or to support it and appear to capitulate to the wishes of the GOP .

Volokh: New Administration's approach to criminal sentencing should lead to a more transparent plea agreement with Boeing .

He says the new Administration now requires prosecutors to disclose all relevant facts to the sentencing judge.

The families want Boeing held fully accountable for the harms stemming from its federal crime of defrauding the FAA about the safety of the 737 MAX .

Attorney General Bondi reiterated the principles of the Bove Memorandum in her own Memorandum .

Sentencing requires complete candor with the court, the defendant, the probation office, and the public.

Bondi (and Bove ) Memoranda restore an important principle in federal criminal sentencing: truth in sentencing.

Donald Trump fired nearly 50% of the staff of the Department of Education , sending waves of shock and outrage through 50% .

The president took the drastic step of canning 13-thousand DOE employees after finding out that the DOE has been spending more than $250 billion a year.

Outraged Democrats held a protest in a broom closet in the Capitol , and teachers protested the job cuts.

DC District Court Judge Amir Ali last month issued a preliminary injunction against the cuts, telling the feds to immediately fork over nearly $2 billion in already-invoiced payouts.

Two weeks back , the Supreme Court declined to completely overrule that order but told him he needed to better specify the government’s interim obligations while the issues are fully litigated.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went off on activist judges on Friday for cutting President Donald Trump off at the knees as he seeks to use his executive powers to the fullest legal extent possible.

“You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the President of the United States . That is completely absurd!” “ The Trump Administration will immediately fight back against these absurd and unconstitutional orders”.

President Donald Trump spoke at the Department of Justice today .

He called out the "corrupt group of hacks and radicals" in the federal government.

The president also called out former President Joe Biden and his far-left Attorney General Merrick Garland .

In his remarks, Trump also mentioned leftist attorney Marc Elias , who backs various lawfare campaigns to subvert election results.

Frida Ghitis: Elite American universities engaged in unethical, illegal and suicidal practices.

She says they have engaged in economic, political, social, social and cultural practices that were often unethical.

Ghitis says universities have little leverage to return to original mission of offering rigorous, meritocratic, disinterested education.

Congress may soon pass legislation that will tax multimillion-dollar endowments at somewhere between 15% and 20% .

Yemen ’s Houthis “are testing a model of 21st-century piracy that, if successful, will be made permanent and likely copied by others,” says Seth Mandel .

Europe 's Wake-up Call on defense: European nations underinvested in defense for decades .

NY cardinal: Christians must learn anew that hatred against Jews is not just unacceptable, but a grave evil.

Still, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was right in lamenting last month that in Britain these days , “you can’t say anything or you might get put in prison.” — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board .

Jeffrey Lax : Green card holder Mahmoud Khalil distributed Hamas propaganda at Columbia University .

He says he's a terrorist-surrogate antisemite who has led a group that harassed Jews and committed a slew of other abhorrent and illegal acts.

Lax says it's just politics as usual for Democrats who hide their eyes from the truly evil threat before them.

President Donald Trump spoke Friday at the Department of Justice in Washington , D.C. He condemned the weaponization of justice that took place during his predecessor’s administration.

He promised that the DOJ and the FBI will become the premier agencies fighting crime on “the face of the earth” “We will expel rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government,” he said.