India, Sept. 2 -- Progressive activists and organisations in the United States spent Tuesday night celebrating Senator Ed Markey's landslide primary win in Massachusetts, casting the 80-year-old's victory over US Representative Seth Moulton as proof that voters reward left-wing policy positions over calls for generational change.

The House voted Tuesday to pass a short-term funding bill and avert a government shutdown at the end of September, keeping money flowing at current levels until Dec. 11.