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Health care is key for Democrats in shutdown fight. Here’s what to know.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.
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Shutdown fight halts $18B for New York’s largest subway, rail projectsOct 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.
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White House fires much of the National Council on the HumanitiesOct 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.
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Vance downplays Trump post of Jeffries in sombrero: ‘I think it’s funny’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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Boys golf: Johnson leads Crystal Lake Central to 2nd straight regional championshipOct 01, 2025 6:27 pm - Asher Johnson and Crystal Lake Central felt comfortable at their home course during Wednesday’s Class 2A Crystal Lake South Regional at RedTail Golf Club in Lakewood. Nav...
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Rocchio, Naylor power 5-run eighth inning as Guardians beat Tigers 6-1 to even AL Wild Card SeriesOct 01, 2025 6:12 pm - CLEVELAND — Rocctober has returned to Cleveland. Brayan Rocchio came up with another clutch hit in the postseason with the go-ahead homer in the eighth inning as the Guar...
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Why is the Ivy League’s best player taking a year off from playing basketball?Oct 01, 2025 4:42 pm - Why is Glenbard West graduate Caden Pierce -- the best basketball player in the Ivy League -- taking a year off from playing basketball at Princeton?
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Mormons raise nearly $200,000 for family of gunman who attacked their churchOct 01, 2025 3:51 pm - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in deep grief after a gunman ambushed a worship service in Michigan on Sunday, killing four people and wounding eight others.They started fundraisers for the victims. Then they did something remarkable: They began donating money to the wife and son of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man who police say carried out the attack.
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Residents of a NYC public housing tower escape unharmed after a massive chimney collapsesOct 01, 2025 2:42 pm - A massive brick chimney running 20 stories up the side of a New York City apartment building collapsed after an explosion Wednesday, sending tons of debris plummeting to the ground.The falling bricks buried a sidewalk, landed on the playground of the public housing building and sent a cloud of dust billowing over the block in the Bronx, but amazingly did not injure anyone.
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Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-lifeOct 01, 2025 2:32 pm - Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin for his work helping immigrants. The plans drew objection from some conservative U.S. bishops given the powerful Democratic senator’s support for abortion rights.