The Flash Briefing is a daily news update every weekday morning from Todd Jeffries. 

• The government shutdown continues after a vote to end it failed in the Senate 55-45 
• The man who went on a stabbing spree on the UT campus back in 2017 has been released from state custody 
• A teenager’s father is speaking out after the man that sold his son a fentanyl-laced pill was given 10 years probation and no prison time

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