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Here's what you missed this weekend: Shutdown grips parks and courts as talks stall, arrest made for Jazmine Barnes, and Warren tours Iowa

Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley,Benjamin Goggin   

Here's what you missed this weekend: Shutdown grips parks and courts as talks stall, arrest made for Jazmine Barnes, and Warren tours Iowa
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  • Statements from President Donald Trump and senior administration officials indicated that no end is in sight for the partial government shutdown.

  • Trump said he could "relate" to government workers her are currently furloughed or working without pay.

  • An arrest was made in the case of the shooting of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, but police say there is a second suspect.

The news that dominated the first full weekend of 2019 had much in common with the national issues that were brewing up until the new year.

The partial shutdown of the federal government entered its second week of overwhelmed departments, unpaid employees, and gridlock between the White House and Congress.

A gunman killed three and injured four in a shooting at a Torrance, California bowling alley in 2019's most damaging incident of gun violence yet.

A week after second-grader Jazmine Barnes, who was killed in a drive-by shooting, a 20-year-old man was arrested and charged with capital murder. Barnes' death sparked national headlines, garnering attention from celebrities and mobilizing a community who called themselves her "army."

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