Senate goes into recess, ensuring shutdown

WASHINGTON — The Latest on Congress and spending legislation (all times local):11 p.m.A short government shutdown is assured as the Senate has recessed until just after a Thursday midnight deadline to pass a temporary funding bill.Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul sparked the shutdown after blocking repeated attempts by GOP leaders to speed up a vote on the stopgap funding bill, which is attached to a huge bipartisan budget agreement.Paul is protesting that the bill would usher in the return of