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The Big Four met on and off for more than three hours Tuesday night in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s conference room in the Capitol. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
DRIVING THE DAY
HERE’S WHAT WE CAN SAY at this early hour. If you are gambling or setting odds, there’s a damn good chance that there will be a stimulus deal reached. It could be reached today maybe! Theoretically! given that: Friday is the government funding deadline, all the leaders agree a Covid relief deal should be paired with government funding, they have said they won’t leave town until a Covid deal is notched and passed,
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The District of Columbia Council approved a measure that would allow people who committed crimes in their youth to apply for a chance to have their sentences reduced.
The bill, which passed on Tuesday, would allow judges to decide whether offenders who were younger than 25 at the time of when they committed a crime and have served at least 15 years would be deserving of an early prison release.
Critics of the legislation argue it would let hundreds of violent criminals back into society, but supporters say it would boost the criminal justice system, citing research that says offenders who commit crimes in their late teens and early 20s lack complete brain maturity and deserve more lenient treatment, according to a report by the