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Government funding vote fails again in Senate as hopes fade for quick end to shutdown

By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT BROWN
Oct 03, 2025 4:41 pm - Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown faded Friday as Democrats refused to budge in a Senate vote and President Donald Trump readied plans to unleash layoffs and cuts across the federal government.
First woman is named archbishop of Canterbury, leader of Church of England

By Karla Adam
Oct 03, 2025 4:32 pm - Sarah Mullally was named the new archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Church of England, and of the global Anglican community, in the church’s nearly 500-year history.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs gets 4 years in prison for case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ
Oct 03, 2025 4:29 pm - Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced Friday to four years and two months in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters, capping a sordid federal case that featured harrowing testimony and ended in a forceful reckoning for one of the most popular figures in hip-hop.
Hamas says it accepts some elements of Gaza peace plan; Trump orders Israel to stop bombing Gaza

By WAFAA SHURAFA, BASSEM MROUE and JOSEPH KRAUSS
Oct 03, 2025 3:01 pm - Hamas said Friday that it has accepted some elements of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, including giving up power and releasing all remaining hostages, but that others require futher consultations among Palestinians.
Trump says US is in ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean

By AAMER MADHANI and LISA MASCARO
Oct 02, 2025 8:09 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict” with them, according to a...
We asked 1,000 Americans who is to blame for the shutdown. Here’s what they said.

Oct 02, 2025 8:01 pm - How concerned are Americans about the partial shutdown of the federal government and whom do they blame for causing it? The Washington Post texted a nationally representative sample of 1,010 people on Wednesday to ask.
The government shuts down, and Trump goes online — very online

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Oct 02, 2025 7:34 pm - On Thursday morning, as thousands of federal employees stayed home and faced potential layoffs because of the government shutdown, President Donald Trump got right to work on social media.He started by sharing praise from supporters. Then he falsely claimed that “DEMOCRATS WANT TO GIVE YOUR HEALTHCARE MONEY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS.” And then he announced that he would meet with his top budget adviser to figure out where to make permanent cuts to federal programs that “are a political SCAM.”
Shutdown guts US cybersecurity agency at perilous time

By Joseph Menn
Oct 02, 2025 7:27 pm - The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric grid, water supply and other critical services from hacking has furloughed most of its already trimmed-down staff in the government shutdown, just as a decade-old law giving companies leeway to collaborate on cyberdefense expired.
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.

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