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Month: October 2025

The Latest: National Guard deploys as ICE uses increasingly combative tactics in US cities

By The Associated Press It’s now Day 6 of the shutdown, and the Democratic minority leader has challenged the Republican House speaker to a televised debate on the impasse over reopening the federal government. Mike Johnson dismissed Hakeem Jeffries’ challenge as “theatrics.” Mutual trust between President Donald Trump and the Democrats is elusive as leaders

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Greta Thunberg is among flotilla activists deported from Israel. Others remain in prison

By MELANIE LIDMAN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities said Monday they deported to Greece and Slovakia another 171 people detained for taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, including prominent Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X that “the deportees were citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland,

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Supreme Court rebuffs push to revive Missouri law barring police from enforcing some U.S. gun laws

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive a controversial Missouri gun law that bans police from enforcing some federal firearm laws. The high court rejected a push to hear arguments over whether the state can block police from enforcing federal gun laws that don’t have an equivalent

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Ukraine says it struck Russian ammunition plant, oil terminal and weapons depot

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Long-range Ukrainian drones and missiles hit a major Russian ammunition plant, a key oil terminal and an important weapons depot behind the front line, Ukraine’s president and military said Monday, as Kyiv cranked up pressure on Moscow’s military logistics. The Sverdlov ammunition plant in the Nizhny

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Pope Leo XIV is starting to correct some of Francis’ more problematic financial decisions

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank. Leo completely abrogated the 2022 law that had decreed that management of the Holy See’s assets was

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Trump says the US has secured $17 trillion in new investments. The real number is likely much less

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic boom promised by President Donald Trump centers on a single number: $17 trillion. That’s the sum of new investments that Trump claims to have generated with his tariffs, income tax cuts and aggressive salesmanship of CEOs, financiers, tech titans, prime ministers, presidents and other rulers.

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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House on September 26

Trump boosts HBCU funding despite his attacks on DEI programs. Here is why some experts believe this is happening

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump’s administration announced it was boosting its investment into historically Black colleges and universities and tribal colleges this year, HBCU advocates lauded the move as a win for the chronically underfunded institutions. The promised one-time gift of an additional $495 million would help Black colleges

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Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for US Senate in Texas, defying GOP leaders to take on Cornyn and Paxton

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign. The two-term Houston-area congressman said he’s running because he doesn’t believe Republican incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who’s had a cool relationship with President

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France’s premier quits hours after naming government, plunging the country into more political chaos

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after less than a month in office on Monday and less than 24 hours after naming a new government that prompted a key coalition ally to withdraw support. The move deepened the country’s political crisis and left President

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