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As NPR's Amy Held reports, the GOP cannot afford to lose any Republican votes, but leaders are expressing confidence they can get the bill passed. President Trump posted a plea to social media for Republicans to stay united and vote yes on the legislation that funds the government through September, slightly boosting defense spending with moderate cuts to other programs. To pass, it will need some Democratic support. And Republicans are daring them to tank it and risk getting blamed for a partial government shutdown. But it is Republicans who have full, if extremely narrow, control of Congress, and Democrats have signaled they are not ready to bail them out, framing the bill as another power grab

for the White House. Amy Held, NPR News. An NPR investigation has uncovered problems with how the federal judiciary handles complaints of abuse. Carrie Johnson says her year-long reporting has found a widespread culture of fear that prevents complaints about judges who behave poorly. These are all current or former employees of the federal courts. They told me about bad experiences they had working for more than two dozen judges. Those judges are men and women, Democrats and Republicans, older and younger.

And by far the most common complaint I heard was about abusive or hostile behavior, bullying. But these are situations that went way beyond a few harsh words and into yelling and even in a few cases, fear that a judge might hit a law clerk or throw something at them. That's in Pierce's Kerry Johnson reporting. Concerns about the economy are growing on Wall Street as investors worry about the impact of President Trump's economic policies. Of particular concern are his tariffs. So as NPR's Rafael Nam reports, a lot of attention will be paid to this week's inflation data.

March has so far proven to be an incredibly volatile month for stock markets. A large reason for that has been President Trump's confusing approach to tariffs, especially when it comes to Canada and Mexico. Investors don't like tariffs and they don't like it when there's so much uncertainty. One of the biggest fears is that tariffs will make imports much more expensive for everybody. Inflation has come down significantly over the past two years or so, but is still stubbornly high. We'll get the latest data on consumer prices for February on Wednesday. And the fear is that inflation could get even worse this year.

Rafal Nam in PR News. Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada's next prime minister. The 59-year-old from Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories won a Liberal Party leadership vote on Sunday. Carney ran the Bank of Canada for five years before being recruited to be the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England. He was also the backup goalie for Harvard's hockey team while he was earning an undergraduate degree.

You're listening to NPR News. Archaeologists in Britain have identified a circular burial site that may have been a prototype for the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge. Vicki Barker has more from London. The prehistoric flagstone monument near the town of Dorchester is a circular ditch made of intersecting burial pits, a so-called proto-henge formed as Neolithic Britons moved from building straight or rectangular monuments to circular ones. Now a new analysis of some of the human remains, deer antler pick axes and charcoal found there, reveals it was dug around 3200 BC, at least 200

years before Stonehenge. Trade and cultural exchanges were very much a fact of late Stone Age life, and the researchers say it's plausible to posit that flagstones would go on to influence the builders of Stonehenge some 50 miles away. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. A man was shot near the White House early Sunday morning. The Secret Service says they'd received information on Saturday about a suicidal person who was apparently traveling from Indiana to Washington, D.C. After his vehicle was found, he was approached by police and shots were fired.

The victim was sent to a local hospital, but his condition is unknown. President Trump was in Florida at the time of that shooting. A single-engine plane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames on Sunday near an airport west of Philadelphia. Police say that all five people on board the plane were taken to local hospitals. The plane had just taken off from Lancaster Airport and was flying to Springfield, Ohio when it crashed into a parking lot. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.

At this year's Oscars, Anorah took home the award for Best Picture. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.