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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday the government shutdown is starting to affect the U.S. economy. During an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Bessent said the media is not sufficiently covering the gravity of the shutdown, now in its 13th day. “I think the dirty secret here for why this has dragged…
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Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo officially shut down to the public on Sunday due to the government shutdown, which is on day 13. The Smithsonian announced on X Friday that museums would close on Oct. 12, with no date set for reopening. “Due to the government shutdown, Smithsonian museums are temporarily closed beginning on…
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Donald Trump zeroes in on another enemy, hostages return to Israel and celebrities remember Diane Keaton, just some of the stories HuffPost is following today.

President Trump said Sunday that he thinks CBS has “great potential” after a summer merger between CBS parent company Paramount and David Ellison’s Skydance placed the son of a close Trump ally at the helm of the media corporation. Earlier this month, Ellison, son of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, bought Bari Weiss’s news website…
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President Trump has made no secret of his admiration of the vast riches of Gulf states and their sovereign wealth funds. His executive order to establish an American equivalent is rooted in the belief that these countries hold a competitive advantage over the U.S. because of their vast pools of state-directed capital. As the U.S.…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed hope for peace in his country’s war against Russia on Monday, amid Israel and Hamas carrying out phase one of a peace plan proposed by the Trump administration.  “When peace is achieved for one part of the world, it brings more hope for peace in other regions where life is…
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Former President Obama criticized President Trump for deploying the National Guard to cities around the country, slamming what he called a “politicization of the military.” “It wasn’t controversial for me to go to other countries and say, ‘You know what? It’s a good idea for militaries to be under civilian control,’ because when you have…
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Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday it is “probably not” legal for President Trump to repurpose Defense Department funding in order to pay members of the military during the shutdown. “Well, probably not. Again, we just had a little conversation about the White House’s understanding of United States law, which is pretty tentative to say…
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Just over 21 years ago, Barack Obama, then an Illinois state senator, electrified the Democratic National Convention with his keynote address. In that speech, he offered a unifying vision for this country and urged Americans not to allow themselves to be divided into “red states” and “blue states.”  Obama asked his listeners to see parts…
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Vice President Vance warned on Sunday that cuts to the federal workforce will only get “deeper” as the government shutdown drags on. In an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo asked the vice president about President Trump describing the moment as an “opportunity” and about how significant the cuts would be.…
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More than 40 U.S. cities and states have sued oil companies in recent years, attempting to recover the costs of climate-related weather disasters and mitigation measures. Eleven states have passed “climate superfund laws” with the same goal.   President Trump calls these actions “ideologically motivated” and has told the Justice Department to fight them. He also…
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China called on President Trump to withdraw his latest tariff threat, warning that Beijing is prepared to retaliate if the U.S. president follows through with 100 percent tariffs. In a press conference Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian was asked how China will respond to the tariff threat, which Trump made in response to…
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He once again touted his foreign policy achievements in comments on Sunday.

Trump’s push to federalize troops “has no precedent,” one expert said.

Donald Trump’s 2016 rival is the spitting image of both, argued social media users.

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to capital punishment.  In September alone, 15 states sought the federal government’s support in their quest to increase the death penalty’s scope outside…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) insists she hasn’t changed, but the conservative firebrand’s deepening splits with her party on everything from Jeffrey Epstein to health care subsidies are puzzling and exasperating her fellow Republicans. Greene forged her political identity in Congress as a fierce Trump loyalist, defending the president and Jan. 6, 2021, protestors, and…
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The Oscar winner also slammed Donald Trump as a “would-be king who wants to take” democracy away.

Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East during a global summit on Gaza’s future, trying to advance broader peace in the region after visiting Israel to celebrate a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Hamas.

The “emergency” nude protest ride was a “quintessentially Portland way to protest” the policies of the Trump administration, said one rider.

Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security also addressed the mockery of its boss.

The president attempted to rewrite the history of a scandal in which he was not even involved.

Israel and Hamas were locked in tense, albeit indirect, negotiations over the list of Palestinian prisoners to be freed.

Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked the president about his afterlife prospects.

The layoffs still impact 600 now-former CDC staff members.