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Trump’s looming shutdown: Mass layoffs, fewer regulations and military deployments

By Jacob Bogage
Sep 27, 2025 8:39 pm - Under the Trump administration’s plans for a government shutdown, the Labor Department would cut off most activities - then fire thousands of employees. National parks would close, and their staffs could face layoffs. Phone help lines at the Internal Revenue Service would go unstaffed, perhaps permanently.
Trump to meet Monday with top four congressional leaders as government shutdown risk looms

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO
Sep 27, 2025 8:12 pm - President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown.The meeting involving House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune as well as House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was confirmed Saturday by a White House official and two other people familiar with the planning.
UN imposes ‘snapback’ sanctions on a hungrier, poorer and more anxious Iran

By JON GAMBRELL and AMIR VAHDAT
Sep 27, 2025 8:06 pm - The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need to survive and worried about their futures.
4 dead after flooding in Arizona, including in mining community hit hard by rain

Sep 27, 2025 6:16 pm - Four people have died after heavy rain caused flooding in Arizona, sending some people in a rural community to their rooftops for safety, officials said Saturday.
Stampede at a political rally for popular actor Vijay in southern India kills 36, injures 40

Sep 27, 2025 6:06 pm - NEW DELHI — A stampede at a rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu killed at least 36 people and injured 40 others, the state...
Russian foreign minister: Any aggression against our country will be met with a ‘decisive response’

By JENNIFER PELTZ and EDITH M. LEDERER
Sep 27, 2025 5:57 pm - As new tensions rise between Russia and NATO powers, Moscow's top diplomat insisted to world leaders Saturday that his nation doesn't intend to attack Europe but will mount a “decisive response” to any aggression.
Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US next

By FREIDA FRISARO
Sep 27, 2025 5:53 pm - Crews spent Saturday making preparations for an unnamed weather system that is forecast to become Tropical Storm Imelda late Saturday or early Sunday before approaching the coast of South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.
Long Grove’s Apple Fest draws a big crowd

By Joe Lewnard
Sep 27, 2025 4:57 pm - There's nothing like a festival to draw a crowd to downtown Long Grove and Apple Fest lived up to its billing as people lined up to buy apples, enjoy prepared food, visit vendors' booths and listen to live music Saturday.
Scammer sold stolen SUV in Des Plaines for $15,000: police

By Russell Lissau
Sep 27, 2025 3:07 pm - A Chicago man is facing charges after selling a stolen, inoperative SUV to someone in Des Plaines, police said.
Police: Pistol-wielding Villa Park man threatened Elmhurst resident

By Russell Lissau
Sep 27, 2025 3:00 pm - A Villa Park man was in custody Saturday after pointing a loaded pistol at an Elmhurst resident outside the victim’s home, prosecutors announced.

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