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Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left yesterday’s meeting with President Trump without a plan to fund the government. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight tonight. The meeting, which also included Vice President JD Vance, was a last-minute attempt to resolve a weeks-long standoff between the parties over spending. Vance made it clear that the GOP wouldn’t agree to Democrats’ demands to attach health care…

  1m ago Hegseth says he is overhauling the Pentagon’s inspector general Hegseth said that he is issuing new policies to overhaul the Defense Department’s internal watchdog, its inspector general, as well as the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Military Equal Opportunity program.He said he calls it the “no more walking on eggshells” policy. “We are liberating commanders and NCOs,” Hegseth said. “We are liberating you.”Hegseth said senior military leaders need to end the “poisonous culture of risk aversion.””You must trust that the warrior alongside you in battle is capable, truly, physically capable of doing what is necessary under fire,”…

Politics / September 29, 2025 Foreign bots were spewing much of the racist rhetoric that followed Charlie Kirk’s killing. And yet it gained traction only because there is plenty of homegrown racism to exploit. Ad Policy Utah Governor Spencer Cox and FBI Director Kash Patel at a press conference following the shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.(Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images) The evening after Charlie Kirk’s murder, the public safety commissioner of Utah, where Kirk was fatally shot on a college campus, admitted that law enforcement still had “no idea” about the identity of the…

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In a call from the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday expressed his “deep regret” to Qatar over the Doha air strike on Hamas leadership earlier this month that set back Middle East peace negotiations. The apology occurred during a trilateral phone call between President Trump, Mr. Netanyahu and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al Thani during the Israeli leader’s visit to the White House. “Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” the White House said in a readout of…

A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction in force eliminating 532 jobs for full-time government employees on Tuesday. Those employees represent the vast majority of its remaining staff.Kari Lake, the agency’s acting CEO, announced in late August that the job cuts would take effect Tuesday. But the judge’s ruling preserves the status quo…

The federal government is close to a shutdown. President Trump met Monday with top Congressional leaders from both parties in the Oval Office, which ended with both sides dug in. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The federal government is perilously close to a government shutdown. In a last-ditch effort to head that off, or at least to look like they’re trying, President Trump met today with the top congressional leaders from both parties in the Oval Office. But that meeting ended with both sides dug in. Here’s House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)HAKEEM JEFFRIES: It was a frank and direct…

Everyone is now accounted for in the aftermath of a shooting and fire at a Michigan church during Sunday services, authorities said during a press conference Monday. The FBI is investigating the Grand Blanc Township melee as “an act of targeted violence.” About 100 people were inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on McClandlish Road around 10:25 a.m. Sunday when the shooting happened.The suspect, identified as a 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, Michigan, drove his vehicle through the front doors of the church, exited his vehicle and fired “several rounds” of an assault rifle at hundreds of churchgoers, Grand…

Politics / September 29, 2025 Too easily dismissed as hyperbole, the Antifa myth is being used as a weapon to destroy domestic opposition. Ad Policy Donald Trump attends the 2025 Ryder Cup at Black Course at Bethpage State Park Golf Course on September 26, 2025, in Farmingdale, New York. (Mandel Ngan / Pool / Getty Images) Donald Trump’s authoritarianism has become increasingly brazen since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But mainstream journalists have failed to describe the full extent of Trump’s newly energized radicalism, choosing to focus on whether his ravings are factual or legal rather than examining the larger…

President Trump offered up a 20-point plan Monday that he cast as a roadmap to end the Israel-Hamas war, a proposal that was backed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — though it remains unclear how Hamas will respond.The plan — which was presented as Netanyahu visited the White House — calls for Hamas to return all Israeli hostages within 72 hours, and for Israel’s military to begin withdrawing from parts of the Gaza Strip in phases. It proposes handing over parts of Gaza to a “technocratic” committee and deploying a temporary security force backed by Arab states.Mr. Trump said…