Nation and World
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British police say deadly rampage at UK synagogue was a terrorist attack
Oct 02, 2025 8:04 am - An assailant drove a car into people outside a synagogue Thursday in northern England and then began stabbing them, killing two and seriously wounding three in a terrorist attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, police said.
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Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now
Oct 01, 2025 7:34 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now, declining to act on the Trump administration’s effort to im...
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Health care is key for Democrats in shutdown fight. Here’s what to know.
Oct 01, 2025 7:23 pm - The federal government shut down early Wednesday following an acrimonious deadlock in Congress over spending in which Democrats have sought to put a spotlight on health care subsidies and who is eligible to receive coverage.Senate Democrats rejected a Republican-led proposal that would have extended funding at current levels until Nov. 21, voting nearly along party lines. The shutdown is the first since January 2019, when President Donald Trump was previously in office.
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Shutdown fight halts $18B for New York’s largest subway, rail projects
Oct 01, 2025 7:07 pm - The Trump administration announced it would pause roughly $18 billion in federal funds for two major New York transportation projects — a move that appeared aimed at punishing Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for their refusal to back a Republican plan that would have averted a government shutdown.
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White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities
Oct 01, 2025 7:02 pm - The White House on Wednesday abruptly fired a large share of the council members advising the National Endowment for the Humanities, retaining only four appointees of President Donald Trump, according to terminated members reached by The Washington Post and an updated list on the agency’s website.
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Vance downplays Trump post of Jeffries in sombrero: ‘I think it’s funny’
Oct 01, 2025 6:57 pm - Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday downplayed criticism over a fake video of Democratic lawmakers that the president posted online, saying the depiction of one party leader in a sombrero and another seeming to deliver a profanity-laced tirade was “funny.”
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Mormons raise nearly $200,000 for family of gunman who attacked their church
Oct 01, 2025 3:51 pm - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in deep grief after a gunman ambushed a worship service in Michigan on Sunday, killing four people and wounding eight others.They started fundraisers for the victims. Then they did something remarkable: They began donating money to the wife and son of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man who police say carried out the attack.
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Residents of a NYC public housing tower escape unharmed after a massive chimney collapses
Oct 01, 2025 2:42 pm - A massive brick chimney running 20 stories up the side of a New York City apartment building collapsed after an explosion Wednesday, sending tons of debris plummeting to the ground.The falling bricks buried a sidewalk, landed on the playground of the public housing building and sent a cloud of dust billowing over the block in the Bronx, but amazingly did not injure anyone.
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Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-life
Oct 01, 2025 2:32 pm - Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin for his work helping immigrants. The plans drew objection from some conservative U.S. bishops given the powerful Democratic senator’s support for abortion rights.
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Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died
Oct 01, 2025 1:35 pm - Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.