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Girls volleyball: Prairie Ridge hands Hampshire first FVC lossOct 02, 2025 9:48 pm - Prairie Ridge never trailed in the first set against Fox Valley Conference leader Hampshire. When the Wolves needed to turn it on in the second set, they had no trouble f...
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Boys soccer: Prus, Crystal Lake South hold off Hampshire to snap losing streakOct 02, 2025 9:31 pm - Crystal Lake South midfielder Will Prus received a throw-in and drove into the Hampshire box, rolling a shot under the outstretched arms of Whip-Purs goalkeeper Jayden S...
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Trump says US is in ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the CaribbeanOct 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...
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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.
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The government shuts down, and Trump goes online — very onlineOct 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.”
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Shutdown guts US cybersecurity agency at perilous timeOct 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.
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Firings and resignations roil US attorney’s office prosecuting ComeyOct 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.
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Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishmentOct 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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European positions on Russia harden as drone incidents, cyberattacks and sabotage mountOct 02, 2025 4:54 pm - Europe must take a more aggressive approach with Russia by shooting down drones that enter European airspace and boarding shadow fleet ships illicitly transporting oil to deprive Moscow of war revenue, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.Speaking at a European summit in Copenhagen, Macron and other European leaders called for more sanctions against Russia — notably targeting its energy sector — and emphasized that Ukraine is on the front line in a widening hybrid war against Europe.
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Daniel Day-Lewis, pulled out of retirement by his son, finds his acting fire still burnsOct 02, 2025 4:54 pm - It’s been eight years since Daniel Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting and said he wanted to “explore the world in a different way.” But the big-screen absence of the actor many would peg as the greatest one alive ends with “Anemone,” a new film directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis.