US senators convened through the weekend for the first time since the month‑long government shutdown began, but prospects for a bipartisan fix dimmed as Republicans rallied behind Donald Trump’s call to scrap Obamacare subsidies in favor of health savings accounts. The standoff widened the shutdown’s toll—unpaid federal workers, canceled flights,...
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated Education Department employees' First Amendment rights by overwriting their furlough out-of-office emails with a partisan message blaming Senate Democrats for the shutdown. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the agency to restore union members' personalized notices immediately or strip the partisan...
President Donald Trump proposed redirecting Affordable Care Act insurer payments straight to Americans to buy their own coverage, pitching it as a way to end the record-long shutdown. In a Saturday Truth Social post offering no specifics, he also renewed his push to scrap the Senate filibuster. The proposal followed...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp used interviews with Axios and CNBC to cast his company as central to US economic growth, saying Palantir is growing the GDP and that most GDP gains now come from AI. He touted Palantir as a baller enterprise and argued America must lead in AI, invoking...
FAA union members are picketing at O’Hare, day 39 of the government shutdown, to spotlight unpaid work, furloughs and concerns over aviation safety and family strain. PASS, representing 11,000 FAA and Department of Defense employees, will rally between Terminals 2 and 3 from 10 a.m. Flight disruptions are mounting after...
Speaking at a Nebraska Democratic Party gala in Omaha, former President Joe Biden delivered a blistering critique of President Donald Trump, calling his tenure a wrecking ball to democracy and citing the demolition of the White House East Wing to build a 90,000 square foot ballroom. He mocked claims of...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after White House talks that Hungary secured an exemption from US sanctions on Russian energy, covering oil and gas via the Druzhba and TurkStream pipelines. A White House official, speaking anonymously, said the waiver lasts one year. Trump, who hosted Orban, said he was...
ESPN reporters Don Van Natta Jr. and Adam Schefter report that President Donald Trump wants the Commanders’ planned D.C. stadium named after him. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ESPN the name would be beautiful and credited Trump with making the rebuild possible; an unnamed White House source said...
President Donald Trump arrived in Palm Beach for a Mar-a-Lago weekend after a cautious descent from Air Force One, then slumped into his limousine, even as he urged senators on Truth Social to stay in Washington until they end the 39-day shutdown and to scrap the filibuster if needed. Fresh...
President Trump threatened military action in Nigeria over attacks on Christians, with the Pentagon preparing options. But the article argues his U.S. aid cuts are likely killing far more Nigerians than jihadi violence. Independent data shows far fewer religion-targeted deaths than some public figures claim, and both Christians and Muslims...
