Here's a roundup of news trending across the nation and world today.
What to know now:
1. Past deadline: Congress will miss the deadline Friday to pass legislation to pay for the running of the federal government. Negotiations on a trillion dollar spending bill that was have to been signed by Friday are bogged down. The Senate, however, passed a five-day spending bill that will allow the government to continue to pay for its operation through next Wednesday. The House is expected to pass the bill Friday as negotiations on a spending bill continue.
2. Gun ban in Connecticut: Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy says he will sign an executive order banning the sale of guns to people who are on any U.S. government's watch lists. State police would have to review whether a potential gun purchaser was on a federal no-fly list or a watch list for people suspected of ties to terrorism. It would also revoke existing gun permits issued to people whose names were found on such a list.
3. Ex-officer convicted: A former Oklahoma City police officer accused of raping 13 women was found guilty of 18 counts of sexual assault Thursday. Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty of assaulting the women – all black – while he was on duty.
4. Grateful Doe: More than 20 years after his body was found, a car crash victim known only as "Grateful Doe" has been identified. Jason Callahan died in a car crash in 1995 and when he was found, he had two ticket stubs to a Grateful Dead concert in his pocket. At the time, no one reported the then 19-year-old missing as he told his family he left to follow the Grateful Dead as they toured the country. His mother filed a missing person's report this past January and provided DNA when authorities suspected "Grateful Doe" could be her son.
5. Making passports: Government officials are warning that ISIS may have a passport printing machine and "boxes of blank passports" which it is using to make fake Syrian passports. A Homeland Security intelligence report says ISIS followers may have infiltrated American borders using some of those passports.
And one more
On Friday Playboy will publish the last issue of the magazine featuring photos of nude women. Pamela Anderson is on the cover (and pictured inside). It’s Anderson’s 14 time on the cover and 15th time to be featured nude inside the pages of the magazine. Playboy announced in October that as part of an editorial redesign, it will no longer publish photos of nude women, saying you can get that sort of thing free on the Internet.
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