UNITED STATES: The U.S. Senate will leave for a six-week break without approving the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelans after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill that would have granted asylum protections to Venezuelans based in the United States. “It is an unconscionable moral failing for the Senate not to approve this legislation,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), one of the bill’s co-sponsors alongside Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). On July 25, the House had passed the TPS bill by a simple majority.