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A federal judge says President Trump's mass firings of government employees can resume for now. Multiple labor unions recently filed a lawsuit trying to block the administration's layoffs of thousands of probationary employees. On Thursday, the judge rejected the lawsuit, saying the federal court was not the appropriate avenue for it.        The Senate is adopting a budget resolution after pulling an all-nighter to vote on all the amendments tacked on by Democrats who were against it. The vote was 52-48 along party lines. The resolution clears the path for Republicans to pass 340-billion dollars in funding, including 175 billion for border spending and immigration enforcement.        A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to comply with an order to unfreeze foreign aid. The U.S. District Judge issued the order Thursday, but didn't hold the administration in contempt for skirting the directive. The administration claims the order gave them legal room to leave funding frozen while they review contracts one-by-one.        Canada has defeated Team USA 3-2 in overtime in the championship hockey game of the 4 Nations Face-Off. Connor McDavid netted the game winner just over eight minutes into the OT period to help Canada avenge its loss to the U.S. last weekend. The U.S. has not won a best-on-best international tournament since 1996.        Amazon has beaten out Walmart in quarterly revenue for the first time ever. The online retail giant reported nearly 188-billion-dollars in revenue during the fourth quarter. Walmart reported Thursday 180-point-five-billion dollars in revenue for the same period. Walmart is still leading Amazon when it comes to annual sales.        Six elephants are dead after a passenger train smashed into a herd in Sri Lanka early Thursday. No passengers were hurt when the train derailed, but six elephants died and two are being treated for injuries. About 20 elephants are killed by trains each year in Sri Lanka.       

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