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Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

Meryl Kornfield, Lisa Rein
Oct 05, 2025 4:33 pm - The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the f...
Ex-NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez stabbed multiple times in altercation leading to charges against him

By BRUCE SCHREINER and MIKE MAROT
Oct 05, 2025 4:29 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was pepper-sprayed and stabbed multiple times during a late-night altercation with a 69-year-old truck driver in a down...
Hurricane Priscilla forms in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Mexico

Oct 05, 2025 4:28 pm - MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Priscilla has formed in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Mexico, with heavy rain and gusty winds affecting coastal areas. The Miami...
Trump administration resumes student loan forgiveness

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Oct 04, 2025 9:59 pm - The Education Department resumed student loan forgiveness this week under a long-standing repayment plan that has been suspended since July.The federal agency informed borrowers who have spent a quarter of a century repaying their loans that they are now eligible to have their remaining balances cleared if they are enrolled in the Income-Based Repayment plan, known as IBR.
Fears of massive battery fires spark local opposition to energy storage projects

By MICHAEL HILL
Oct 04, 2025 9:57 pm - More and more, big arrays of lithium-ion batteries are being hooked up to electrical grids around the U.S. to store power that can be discharged in times of high demand.But as more energy storage is added, residents in some places are pushing back due to fears that the systems will go up in flames, as a massive facility in California did earlier this year.
Legal setbacks mount for Trump’s birthright order before likely Supreme Court review

By MICHAEL CASEY and SUDHIN THANAWALA
Oct 04, 2025 9:52 pm - Over a span of a month this summer, four separate federal courts rejected President Donald Trump’s executive order ending automatic citizenship for the children of people in the country illegally or temporarily. On Friday, one more court weighed in, and the result was no different.
Netanyahu hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza 'in the coming days'

By SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY
Oct 04, 2025 9:34 pm - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza “in the coming days,” as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on Monday on a new U.S. plan to end the war.
Journalists work in dire conditions to tell Gaza’s story, knowing that could make them targets

By BASSEM MROUE and ADAM GELLER
Oct 04, 2025 5:36 pm - Minutes after journalists gathered outside a Gaza hospital to survey the damage of an Israeli strike, Ibrahim Qannan pointed his camera up at the battered building as the others climbed its external stairs. Then Qannan watched in horror — while broadcasting live — as a second strike killed the friends and colleagues he knew so well.
Trump plans to deploy National Guard in Illinois, Pritzker says; woman shot during chaotic ICE action in Chicago

From Daily Herald Wire Services
Oct 04, 2025 4:19 pm - The Trump administration plans to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said Saturday.
International journalists visit Gaza City under the supervision of Israel’s army

By SAM MEDNICK
Oct 04, 2025 3:29 pm - An Israeli army vehicle rumbles through the empty streets of a shattered neighborhood in Gaza City, and with help from a video camera, a soldier spots people standing inside a blasted out nearby building. The armored personal carrier revs its engine and moves on.

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