By Annie Grayer, CNN

(CNN) — Attorneys representing Bill and Hillary Clinton made a last-ditch offer in an attempt to prevent a House vote to hold them in contempt of Congress, but were rejected by House Oversight Chair James Comer.

“It has been nearly six months since your clients first received the Committee’s subpoena, more than three months since the original date of their depositions, and nearly three weeks since they failed to appear for their depositions commensurate with the Committee’s lawful subpoenas,” Comer wrote. “Your clients’ desire for special treatment is both frustrating and an affront to the American people’s desire for transparency.”

The correspondence, obtained by CNN, reveals that the Clintons’ team has been in search of an off-ramp for days. Attorneys for the former president and former secretary of state have been in discussion with the Republican-led committee multiple times since lawmakers from both parties voted in January to hold the Clintons in contempt for refusing to appear for in-person depositions as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

By rejecting the Clintons’ most recent offer, Comer has all but ensured that the House will hold a final vote this week on the contempt resolutions.

According to the letter dated January 31, the Clintons’ lawyers laid out the terms under which the former president would sit for a voluntary, transcribed interview. He would sit for four-hours in New York City for an interview limited to the scope of the Epstein probe, they said. Lawmakers from both parties and their staff could ask questions and the lawyers said both the Clintons and the committee could have their own transcriber present, according to the letter.

Even though the lawyers continued to push for the panel to drop its subpoena for Hillary Clinton’s testimony, they said she could submit a second sworn declaration or appear for an in-person interview in a similar format to her husband.

In exchange, Clinton attorneys Ashley Callen and David E. Kendall asked Comer to withdraw the subpoenas and contempt resolutions against them.

Bill Clinton has repeatedly denied wrongdoing related the Epstein, the late convicted sex offender.

Comer, for his part, rejected the offer from the Clintons’ attorneys as “unreasonable” and said he could not accept such terms.

He could not agree, he said, to changing the interview from a sworn deposition to a voluntary interview, as well as rejected the way in which the attorneys sought to limit the scope of the interview. Comer noted if the attorneys had offered a voluntary interview when the former president first received his subpoena for testimony in August, the situation could have played out differently.

“But given that he has already failed to appear for a deposition and has refused for several months to provide the Committee with in-person testimony, the Committee cannot simply have faith that President Clinton will not refuse to answer questions at a transcribed interview, resulting in the Committee being right back where it is today,” Comer wrote.

Clinton, he added, would have incentive to attempt to “run out the clock” if the committee agreed to a firm, four-hour time limit for an interview. And the Republican chairman questioned why the Clintons wanted to have their own transcriber present, if an official court reporter provided by the panel would be present.

In his letter, Comer referenced how the process played out for former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who agreed to sit for an in-person deposition, not a voluntary transcribed interview, following a committee vote to hold him in contempt.

Ultimately, Comer also rejected the proposals laid out for Hillary Clinton.

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Cabo Cañaveral no es un lugar de peregrinación histórica, a pesar del estatus consagrado que ostenta esta zona turística costera como cuna de los vuelos espaciales estadounidenses. La Costa Espacial, como se la suele llamar, no es solo el lugar donde comenzó esta audaz era de la ciencia, con múltiples museos que la documentan, sino que también sigue siendo el puerto espacial más activo del mundo.

Dentro del hangar del Apolo/Saturno V en el Centro Espacial Kennedy, uno de los muchos artefactos que me emocionaba tener a solo unos metros era el Vehículo Roving Lunar, o “coche lunar”, conducido por los astronautas en la misión Apolo 17, de 1972. Está estacionado a la sombra del enorme cohete Saturno V, que transportó a los astronautas y su equipo a finales de los años sesenta y principios de los setenta. El Apolo 17 fue la última misión tripulada a la Luna.

Al girar 180 grados sobre mis talones, visible a través de las puertas de vidrio del hangar, el cohete Artemis II estaba siendo desplegando hacia su plataforma de lanzamiento en el momento de mi reciente visita, para pronto llevar a los primeros astronautas de regreso a la órbita de la Luna en más de 50 años.

A aproximadamente una hora en coche de Orlando, Cabo Cañaveral y la vecina ciudad de Cocoa Beach se popularizaron a principios de la década de 1960 como el lugar donde los siete astronautas estadounidenses originales vivieron, despegaron y descansaron junto a las piscinas de los moteles. Es un destino histórico de la mayor belleza, con palmeras, olas, una playa de arena bronceada, impresionantes amaneceres y atardeceres, y vida silvestre por doquier.

Al llegar a la pintoresca carretera costera de la Ruta A1A, aparte de Frank Sinatra cantando “Fly Me to the Moon”, no hay mejor acompañamiento auditivo que una lectura de “The Right Stuff”. El libro de Tom Wolfe, de 1979, narra la aventurera historia del origen y las misiones de los astronautas originales del Mercury. La versión en Audible está hecha de forma entretenida por Dennis Quaid, quien interpretó al astronauta Gordon Cooper en la adaptación cinematográfica, de 1983. Al volver a escucharla, esta vez empecé con el capítulo siete, “The Cape”.

“Cabo Cañaveral estaba en Florida, pero no era una zona de Florida que se pudiera mencionar en una carta”, escribió Wolfe. “No, Cabo Cañaveral no era Miami Beach ni Palm Beach ni siquiera Cayo Hueso. Cabo Cañaveral era Cocoa Beach… el pueblo turístico para todos los que tenían bajos ingresos y no podían permitirse ir a los pueblos costeros más al sur”.

Sesenta años después, Cocoa Beach aún no está demasiado desarrollada ni atrae a visitantes adinerados. Entre las cadenas hoteleras de tamaño modesto y los condominios junto a la playa, aún hay alojamientos tradicionales en buen estado. Entre las cadenas de restaurantes de comida rápida, hay algunos establecimientos con auténticas conexiones con la historia espacial y con mejor comida.

Mientras estás en su órbita, la Costa Espacial reconfigura tu brújula mental; su norte magnético apunta a todo lo cósmico. Te la encuentras por todas partes. A lo lejos, se ven cohetes gigantes en plataformas de lanzamiento. Las tiendas de vapeo de CBD lucen imágenes de astronautas con tablas de surf pintadas con aerosol en las paredes. Un barista parlanchín te dice que es un niño de la NASA. Otros negocios locales tienen nombres como Space Coast Inn, Starlite Restaurant, Lift Off Lounge, Space-Mann Storage, Launch Pad Bar & Grill y The Astronaut’s Wife (una tienda de ropa vintage).

Al entrar al vestíbulo del Courtyard Cocoa Beach Marriott, me recibió una réplica a tamaño real de un traje de astronauta de los años ochenta, flanqueado por dos maquetas de cohetes. Junto a ellas, se mostraban detalles de los próximos lanzamientos que cualquiera podía ver, incluyendo el Artemis II. Justo al lado del vestíbulo, había una pequeña vitrina con artículos

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -  For about seven months, passengers could not fly in the United States  without a RealID or a Passport.  That's now changing and many Central Coast passengers are on the move again.

Under an adjusted rule, passengers who do not have that type of identification can get through TSA by filling out a form and paying $45.

It's advised you do it in advance through a service called ConfirmID.

This comes at a time when Central Coast airports are getting busier than ever.   Last year Santa Barbara saw nearly 1.5 million passengers.

The San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport also had improved business with just over 800,000 passengers, a new record.

(More details, video and photos will be added here later today.)

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By Alicia Wallace, CNN

(CNN) — For the second time in four months, a federal government shutdown has caused critical economic data to go dark.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not release the January jobs report and other closely watched labor market data as scheduled this week because of the partial federal government shutdown.

BLS officials told CNN on Monday that the agency is suspending the collection, processing and dissemination of economic data until federal funding is restored.

“The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey release for December 2025, Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for December 2025, and the Employment Situation release for January 2026 will be rescheduled upon the resumption of government funding,” Emily Liddel, associate commissioner for the BLS’ Office of Publications and Special Studies, said via email.

Prior to the shutdown, the latest JOLTS report, the metropolitan employment data, and the jobs report were scheduled to be released Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, respectively.

Once funding is restored, those three reports will be rescheduled, she said.

The US government partially shut down on January 31 after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on funding, an impasse sparked by outcry over the Department of Homeland Security ’s immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota – specifically the shooting deaths of US citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents.

Senate Democrats vowed to block the House-passed bill unless several reforms were made to DHS or unless DHS funding was spun off separately — changes that would require another vote in the House.

The government isn’t expected to reopen until at least Tuesday, when the House is expected to hold critical votes on a must-pass funding package.

The latest funding lapse comes at a time when the BLS and other federal statistical agencies are still trying to recover from the last one, a historic, 43-day shutdown that spanned October and early November.

The BLS data that was due out this week was expected to provide a crucial look at the health of the US labor market after what was the weakest year of jobs growth outside of a recession since 2003.

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