Now with the text out, the current plan puts the entire timeline – having lawmakers read the text, advancing it to the Rules Committee and getting to a floor vote – in the span of a week. With time no longer on their side, a failure at any stage could result in a shutdown.

Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila have been invited to appear before a military prosecutor on Monday in a sign of political tensions over Rwanda-backed rebels' advances in the east.

Republicans have put forward a budget proposal that would keep the federal government from shutting down this Sunday, but Democrats are opposed because of sharp budget cuts. Esme Murphy looks at how a shutdown would affect Minnesotans.

Congress has less than a week to avert a government shutdown that could cause widespread pains for taxpayers. It's a day ending in -y in Washington, DC, so that means there's drama about a potential government shutdown,