[naviga:h3]GOP transportation bill lacks support[/naviga:h3]

WASHINGTON — With a deadline looming for a cutoff of highway aid to states, Senate Republicans failed Tuesday to muster enough votes to take up a bill that would extend transportation programs for six years.

Democrats complained they’d had only an hour to read the 1,040-page bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would give Democrats more time, but added he intends to push forward with the bill even if it means keeping the Senate in session over the weekend.

A motion to begin debate failed 41 to 56, far short of the 60 votes needed.

While the bill would authorize highway and transit programs for six years, it contains only enough money — about $47 billion, according to a list of offsets supplied by McConnell’s office — to close the current funding gap for transportation programs for three years

[naviga:h3]Trump has revenge on political rival[/naviga:h3]

BLUFFTON, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled a classic adolescent prank on a rival who dared to criticize him, a bit of payback reminiscent of writing the phone number of a nemesis on a wall with the message “Call me.”

After Sen. Lindsey Graham called Trump “the world’s biggest jackass” during a television interview, the billionaire developer read Graham’s personal cell phone number and showed it to TV cameras at a campaign event. Graham joked that he would have to buy a new phone. His voice mail quickly filled up.

The back-and-forth is the latest chapter in an ongoing feud between Trump and those who criticize him.

[naviga:h3]Feds arrest man in military tech sting [/naviga:h3]

HONOLULU — A man was arrested in Hawaii for allegedly arranging to buy six pairs of military-grade night-vision goggles from an undercover federal agent and trying to export them to China, court documents show.

Song Il Kim spent several months negotiating with the agent in Utah to buy the devices, which are manufactured in the U.S., for a total of $22,000, according to a criminal complaint. The two types of goggles he allegedly wanted are made for the U.S. military and its allies, and it is illegal to export them without State Department authorization.

Kim, 41, tried to send the devices to China, according to the complaint, but it’s unclear what he intended to do with them after that. He was born in North Korea, holds a Cambodian passport and lives in China, court records show.

Kim was ordered held without bail.