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Friday, September 29, 2023

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed on Friday as hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain.

McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certain

McCarthy's right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions, calling it insufficient.
FILE — Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. Las Vegas police said they have made an arrest, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, for the first time in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Man tied to suspected shooter in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing arrested in Las Vegas, AP sources say

Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.
FILE -Oakland County Judge Kwame Rowe looks toward witness during cross examination, July 27, 2023, in Pontiac, Mich. The teenager who killed four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School will learn whether he will spend his life in prison or get a chance for parole in the decades ahead. Judge Rowe will announce his decision Friday, Sept. 29.

Oxford High School shooter will get life in prison, no parole, for killing 4 students, judge rules

Judge Kwamé Rowe announced the decision over video conference, weeks after hearing from experts who clashed over Ethan Crumbley's mental health and witnesses who described the tragic day in 2021 in sharp detail.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution.

The Supreme Court will decide if state laws limiting social media platforms violate the Constitution

The justices will review laws enacted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas. While the details vary, both laws aim to prevent the social media companies from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and European Union observers drive their cars past a check point on the road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Armenian officials say more than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh's original population have fled the region for Armenia.
More than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh's population has fled as separatist government plans to dissolve
Armenian officials said that 84,770 people had left Nagorno-Karabakh by Friday morning, continuing a mass exodus from the region of ethnic Armenians that began Sunday. The region's population was around 120,000 before the exodus began.
United Auto Workers union members strike for improved compensation outside of the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 in Toledo, Ohio. (Phillip L. Kaplan /The Blade via AP)
United Autoworkers strikes spread to Chicago, Lansing as 7,000 more workers join picket line
The United Auto Workers union says its two-week strike against Detroit automakers will spread to 7,000 more workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing, Michigan.
In this photo provided by District Police Office, a boy injured in a bomb explosion receives treatment at a hospital, in Mastung near Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. A powerful bomb exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing multiple people and wounding dozens of others, police and a government official said.
Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam's prophet
A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country's deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, second right, and Chairman of the St. Petersburg regional public organization “League for the Protection of the Interests of Veterans of Local Wars and Military Conflicts” retired Col. Andrey Troshev in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.
Putin orders former Wagner commander to take charge of 'volunteer units' in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner military contractor to take charge of "volunteer units" fighting in Ukraine, signaling the Kremlin's effort to keep using the mercenaries after the death of their chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The federal government is heading toward a shutdown at month’s end that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics. It comes as Republicans in the House, fueled by hard-right demands for deep cuts, force a confrontation over federal spending.
A government shutdown is nearing this weekend. What does it mean, who's hit and what's next?
While some government entities will be exempt -- Social Security checks, for example, will still go out -- other functions will be severely curtailed. Federal agencies will stop all actions deemed non-essential, and millions of federal employees, including members of the military, won't receive paychecks.
Associated Press Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, speaks Thursday during the House Oversight Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden on Capitol Hill in Washington.
House Republicans make their case for Biden impeachment inquiry at first hearing
House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to "provide accountability" as they probe the family finances and business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate.
President Joe Biden, on Thursday, will make his fourth in a series of presidential addresses about the state of democracy, a cause that is driving his motivation to stay in office even amid low approval ratings that are rattling his party and widespread concern from voters about his age. The location, as it has been for other speeches, is deliberately chosen and poignant: It will be at the home of the McCain Institute, named after the late Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Biden is targeting Trump's 'extremist movement' as he makes democracy a touchstone in reelection bid
President Joe Biden is arguing that "there is something dangerous happening in America" as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country's democratic institutions.
New York state Attorney General Letitia James speaks during the 2022 New York state Democratic convention in New York.
NY Attorney General Letitia James has a long history of fighting Trump and other powerful targets
Letitia James fixated on Donald Trump as she campaigned for New York attorney general, branding the then-president a "con man" and ″carnival barker" and pledging to shine a "bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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