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Firings and resignations roil US attorney’s office prosecuting Comey

By Salvador Rizzo
Oct 02, 2025 7:23 pm - Lawyers inside the high-profile U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting former FBI director James B. Comey are unnerved by what they see as an unprecedented push by President Donald Trump to inject politics into their staffing and charging decisions, according to three people familiar with the matter, a strategy they say could jeopardize national security investigations.
Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

By LISA MASCARO, JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM
Oct 02, 2025 7:21 pm - President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, saying he planned to meet with budget director Russ Vought to talk through “temporary or permanent” spending cuts that could set up a lose-lose dynamic for Democratic lawmakers.
Trump administration approval of new abortion drug infuriates the right

By Natalie Allison and Paige Winfield Cunningham
Oct 02, 2025 4:39 pm - The Trump administration has approved a new generic version of the mifepristone abortion pill, a decision made quietly by the Food and Drug Administration this week that is now prompting uproar among anti-abortion leaders.
Everybody in Washington hates a shutdown until it becomes a useful tool

By SEUNG MIN KIM
Oct 02, 2025 9:07 am - The U.S. government had shut down, and Donald Trump was calling on Democrats and Republicans to work together to get out of the mess.
Gaza death toll mounts as Hamas considers its response to Trump's peace proposal

By WAFAA SHURAFA
Oct 02, 2025 8:21 am - Israeli strikes overnight and into Thursday killed at least 13 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to hospitals, as Hamas was still considering its response to U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal for ending the nearly two-year war.
Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now

By MARK SHERMAN
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...
Health care is key for Democrats in shutdown fight. Here’s what to know.

By Niha Masih, Bart Schaneman and Mariana Alfaro
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.
Shutdown fight halts $18B for New York’s largest subway, rail projects

By Lori Aratani
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.
White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities

By Janay Kingsberry, Kelsey Ables and Travis M. Andrews
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.
Vance downplays Trump post of Jeffries in sombrero: ‘I think it’s funny’

By Brianna Tucker
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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