The Senate on Wednesday is set to take up another series of votes on legislation to fund the government, after a shutdown went into effect overnight. The upper chamber of Congress on Tuesday, as

The federal government went into a partial shutdown overnight after Congress failed to pass a spending bill to keep it fully operational.

Get live updates from Capitol Hill after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to avert a government shut down.

"The American people deserve maximum transparency from the federal government on sightings, acquisitions and examinations of UAPs and whether they pose a potential threat to Americans' safety."

Speaker Mike Johnson is ready to bring a continuing resolution (CR) to avert a shutdown to the House floor on Friday, before the chamber leaves for a recess that stretches beyond the Oct. 1 government funding deadline.

As a reminder, UAP stands for unidentified anomalous phenomena, which might describe unexplainable sightings in the sea, air or space. In the air, these sightings are also called UFOs, or unidentified flying objects, and often refer to alien spacecraft.

On Sept. 19 the Doña Ana Board of County Commissioners will vote on a proposed $165 billion in Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRB) meant to support the creation of an infrastructure campus dubbed Project Jupiter.