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Trump administration moves to defund inspector general watchdog group

By Meryl Kornfield
Sep 30, 2025 7:28 pm - The Trump administration plans to end funding starting Wednesday for an oversight group that helps inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse, marking the latest example of President Donald Trump’s drive to limit federal watchdog activities.
Trump, Hegseth lecture military leaders in rare, politically charged summit

By Dan Lamothe, Tara Copp and Alex Horton
Sep 30, 2025 4:57 pm - Hundreds of the U.S. military’s top leaders listened in silence to highly partisan addresses from President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, with each harshly criticizing their predecessors and hyping their political objectives during a summit that was extraordinary in nature but ultimately broke little new ground.
Trump announces drug-pricing deal with Pfizer, new ‘TrumpRx’ website

By Dan Diamond and Paige Winfield Cunningham
Sep 30, 2025 4:43 pm - President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer would sell its drugs to a government program at discounted rates, acceding to his long-running push to lower U.S. drug prices, and he pledged that similar deals with other companies would soon follow.
Judge finds the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens over Gaza war protests

By MICHAEL CASEY
Sep 30, 2025 3:45 pm - The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it targeted non-U. S. citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel, a federal judged said Tuesday in a scathing ruling directly and sharply criticizing President Donald Trump and his policies as serious threats to free speech.
‘We’re going into Chicago very soon:’ Trump doubles down on military presence threat

By Marni Pyke
Sep 30, 2025 3:33 pm - President Donald Trump said cities like Chicago should be used as “training grounds for our military” and promised swift action in a speech to high-ranking generals Tuesday. Meanwhile, Gov. JB Pritzker said “there’s something genuinely wrong” with president, and suggested the 25th Amendment.
FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and JIM MUSTIAN
Sep 30, 2025 6:48 am - On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.
Tony Blair’s long experience in the Middle East is both his strength and his weakness

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA
Sep 30, 2025 6:45 am - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has returned to the forefront of Middle East peace efforts after a U.S. peace plan on ending the Israel-Hamas war cast him in a leading role in overseeing the post-war administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
US government on brink of first shutdown in almost 7 years amid partisan standoff in Congress

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 30, 2025 6:42 am - A partisan standoff over health care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years, with Democrats and Republicans in Congress unable to find agreement even as thousands of federal workers stand to be furloughed or laid off.
Hegseth declares an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US military

By BEN FINLEY and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Sep 30, 2025 6:36 am - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military officials to an in-person meeting Tuesday to announce directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physical fitness as well as an end to “woke” culture in the military.
Pritzker calls federal deployment ‘an attack on the Constitution’

By Ben Szalinski and Jerry Nowicki
Sep 29, 2025 7:08 pm - The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to send 100 military troops to Chicago, according to Gov. JB Pritzker, who assailed the move as the Trump administration’s ...

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