Democrats might be able to avert a government shutdown on Friday thanks to some unexpected help from newly independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema.

According to an Egyptian security official.The order to release Mubarak was the latest in a series of court rulings in recent years in Egypt that acquitted some two dozen Mubarak-era cabinet ministers.

say Mubaraks acquittal of killing protesters has confirmed long-held suspicions that his trial -- and that of scores of policemen who faced trial on the same charge -- would never bring the justice they demanded.The ruling was upheld by another court in January 2016.Egypt court drops charges against former president Mubarak 01:30 The lawyer.

A criminal court had ruled in May 2015 to jail Mubarak for three years and fine him millions of Egyptian pounds following his conviction for embezzling funds earmarked for the maintenance and renovation of presidential palaces.economic inequities and reliance on feared security officials to keep its hold on power.

confirmed widely-held suspicions that their revolution -- as the uprising against Mubarak was dubbed -- had effectively been reversed by the government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.

Mubaraks release also marked a new chapter in the saga of an ignominious fate of a president whose people rose up against himOther conservatives have pushed Senate Republicans to vote against the bill because of the FBI headquarters funding.

the Omnibus will gift them with a brand new headquarters in either Virginia or Maryland.who raised concerns about its price tag.

co/rBuvMMiLuW Chip Roy (@chiproytx) December 20.If the bill does not pass in the evenly divided Senate.