5 Things To Know For Your New Day-Thursday January 10th

House passes bill to reopen IRS and other financial agencies, despite veto threat:

The House passed a financial services spending bill on Wednesday, the first of four appropriations bills the House will vote on this week in an attempt to reopen shuttered parts of government, despite the fact that the measures are not expected to go anywhere in the Senate and face a White House veto threat.

The vote was 240-188.

The stalemate is a reflection of the continued standoff over the ongoing government shutdown, which does not look like it will end anytime soon.

Each day this week, the House will vote on bills to fund shuttered parts of the government. The first spending bill voted on covered financial services, such as the Treasury Department and the IRS.

Trump walks out of shutdown meeting, calling talks ‘total waste of time’:

President Donald Trump walked out of discussions to end a partial government shutdown, now in its third week, calling the talks with congressional Democrats “a total waste of time.”

“Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!” Trump said.

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are getting divorced after 25 years of marriage:

The world’s richest couple is splitting up.

Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are getting a divorce after 25 years of marriage, according to a joint statement put out Wednesday on the Amazon CEO’s Twitter account.

“After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,” the couple said in the statement.

Al Roker defends the meteorologist who was fired for a racist slur:

The meteorologist fired over the use of a racial slur on air just got a big defender — high-profile weatherman Al Roker.

Roker, a longtime personality on NBC’s “Today” show, defended former WHEC-TV meteorologist Jeremy Kappell after he was fired for saying “Martin Luther Coon Park” when referring to a park named after Martin Luther King Jr. in Rochester, New York.

In a video viewed by CNN, Kappell says “King” immediately after using the slur and continues with the broadcast.

Lady Gaga facing pressure to condemn R. Kelly:

Lady Gaga once defended her 2013 collaboration with singer R. Kelly by pointing to the “bond” they shared over “very untrue things written about us.”

But in the wake of a recent Lifetime documentary series that chronicles allegations of abuse, predatory behavior and pedophilia against Kelly, Gaga is now facing pressure to condemn him. Kelly has strongly denied the allegations.

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