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By Jill Colvin, Lisa Mascaro and Zeke Miller

Associated Press

WASHINGTON

Submitting to mounting pressure amid

growing disruption, President Donald

Trump signed a bill Friday to reopen the

government for three weeks, backing down

from his demand that Congress give him

money for his border wall before federal

agencies get back to work.

Standing alone in the Rose Garden,

Trump said he would sign legislation fund-

ing shuttered agencies until Feb. 15 and try

again to persuade lawmakers to finance his

long-sought wall. The deal he reached with

congressional leaders contains no new

money for the wall but ends the longest

shutdown in U.S. history.

The Senate then the House swiftly and

unanimously approved the deal. Late

Friday, Trump signed it into law. The ad-

ministration asked federal department

heads to reopen offices in a “prompt and

orderly manner” and said furloughed em-

ployees can return to work.

Trump’s retreat came in the 35th day of

the partial shutdown as intensifying delays

at the nation’s airports and another missed

payday for hundreds of thousands of feder-

al workers brought new urgency to efforts

to resolve the standoff.

“This was in no way a concession,” Trump

said in a tweet late Friday, fending off critics

who wanted him to keep fighting. “It was

taking care of millions of people who were

getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with

the understanding that in 21 days, if no deal

is done, it’s off to the races!”

The shutdown ended as Democratic

leaders had insisted it must—reopen the

government first, then talk border security.

“The president thought he could crack

By Chris Megerian

Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON

Roger Stone, a longtime

Republican operative who

helped launch President

Donald Trump’s political

career and later served as an

informal political adviser,

was arrested before dawn

Friday on a federal indict-

ment that outlined efforts

by Trump’s 2016 campaign

to seek Democratic Party

emails hacked by Russia.

S t o n e

sa id he

w o u l d

plead not

guilty to

seven felo-

ny charges

and was

released on

a $250,000

bond. He

emerged from the court-

house smiling, his arms out-

stretched in a V-for-victory

pose made famous by his

political idol, President

Richard Nixon, who re-

signed from office during

the Watergate scandal.

Stone had numerous con-

versations with high-level

Trump campaign officials

about WikiLeaks’ plans to

release the stolen emails

after obtaining them from

By Catherine W. Idzerda

cidzerda@gazettextra.com

JANESVILLE

Children can eat more sugar, more fat

and fewer whole grains under scaled-back

school lunch rules approved last month

by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue

has argued that the changes were needed.

Too much food was ending up in the trash,

he said, and the rules were too restrictive.

Opponents countered that rolling

back regulations isn’t good for children’s

health.

James Degan, Janesville School

District food service manager, noted the

rule changes, but he has already moved

on. He has bigger, healthier fish to fry and

plans to stay the course with school lunch

menus, for the most part.

The changes:

� Under the Obama-era rules that

took effect in 2014, all breads, cereals and

pasta served to kids had to be at least 50

percent whole grain. Schools could apply

for a wavier if they had trouble finding

products. Now, schools don’t have to ap-

ply for a waiver.

“We did apply for the waiver for the

first year,” Degan said.

He worried that students wouldn’t eat

whole-grain pizza crust, sandwich bread

and pasta.

He was wrong. The new foods took

some getting used to, but students ac-

cepted them. After that first year, Degan

didn’t apply for the waiver again.

“The companies have had time to re-

invent themselves and their products,”

he said.

Products with more whole grains have

gotten better over time.

“I might consider going back to the old

tortillas,” Degan said. “The whole-grain

tortillas haven’t been very good.”

� Under the 2014 regulations, added

sugar and flavor were allowed only in

skim milk. Now, students can have choc-

olate milk with 1 percent fat, as well.

That will increase the amount of fat

By Jim Dayton

and Neil Johnson

Gazette staff writers

JANESVILLELucas E. Stuhr repeat-

edly threatened to kill the man he is accused of fa-tally shooting Wednesday night, according to a crim-inal complaint filed Friday in Rock County Court.

Stuhr, 39, of Browntown is charged with first-de-gree intentional homicide in the shooting death of Clifford A. Grice, 41, of Janesville, who was ro-mantically involved with Stuhr’s ex-girlfriend. The ex-girlfriend witnessed the shooting.

Stuhr made his initial court appearance Friday via video feed. Court

Commissioner Stephen Meyer set his bond at $500,000 and ordered him to have no contact with his ex-girlfriend.

Meyer said the high bond would alleviate con-cerns that Stuhr would not appear at his next court hearing. Authorities were worried he could harm himself, and Stuhr will have a competency hear-ing Tuesday.

Rock County District Attorney David O’Leary requested the $500,000 bond, saying he has a strong argument to con-vict Stuhr. He said pros-ecutors have an eyewit-ness, video evidence and a partial admission from Stuhr regarding the events before and after the shoot-ing.

Stuhr told police he “blacked out” before the

Janesville School District works

with hot lunch changes

Angela Major/amajor@gazettextra.comIan Duncan, an eighth-grader at Franklin Middle School in Janesville, eats a hot lunch in the school’s cafeteria. The federal government has eased dietary guidelines for student lunches, but local officials don’t plan to make many changes.

Trump signs bill to end shutdownIt reopens government

for 3 weeks without money for border wall

Associated PressPresident Donald Trump announces an agreement Friday to end the partial govern-ment shutdown in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Complaint: Suspect threatened to kill shooting victim

Angela Major/amajor@gazettextra.comLucas Stuhr, left, appears next to attorney Walter Isaacson as District Attorney David O’Leary speaks about the de-tails of the criminal complaint Friday at the Rock County Courthouse in Janesville. Stuhr is accused of fatally shoot-ing Clifford Grice of Janesville on Wednesday night after a verbal argument.

Healthy, healthier,

healthiest:

Stuhr has bond set at $500,000

Trump adviser

arrestedCharges allege

Trump campaign sought emails

during campaign

Stone

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RELATED• State: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., faced off with

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., over the effort to end the government shutdown./Page 2A

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