The longest government shutdown in history could conclude as soon as today, Day 43, with Speaker Mike Johnson calling House representatives back into session after sending them home for nearly eight weeks. The House is scheduled to take up a bill to reopen the government that the Senate passed on Monday night.

ROME (AP) – Five German mountaineers died after being hit by an avalanche in South Tyrol, in northern Italy, rescuers said on Sunday. Three victims – two men and a woman – had already been recovered dead on Saturday, while the bodies of two other missing people, a man and his 17-year-old daughter, were found on Sunday morning.

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario (AP) – Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies met with Ukraine’s foreign minister on Wednesday as Kyiv tries to fend off Russian aerial attacks that have brought rolling blackouts across the country.