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About 1,500 federally funded health centers that serve millions of low-income people face significant financial challenges, their leaders say, as the government shutdown compounds other cuts to their revenue.Some of these community health centers may have to cut medical and administrative staff or reduce services. Some could eventually close. The result, their advocates warn, may be added pressure on already crowded hospital emergency rooms.”This is the worst time in all the years I have been working in health care,” said Jim Mangia, president and CEO of St. John’s Community Health, a network of 28 clinics that serves more than 144,000…

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Voters in critical swing areas of Georgia are preparing to weather the consequences of a federal shutdown and question which party is responsible. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: The federal government is closed for a second day. With park visitor centers locked and many federal employees furloughed, Republicans and Democrats say voters should hold the other side responsible for the fallout. But as NPR’s Sam Gringlas reports from Georgia, some people are focused less on who is to blame than on how long the shutdown will last.SAM GRINGLAS, BYLINE: The last shutdown dragged on for 35 days. Among the hardest hit were…

Trump threatens permanent cuts as shutdown stalemate continues – CBS News Watch CBS News As Republicans and Democrats fail to come to an agreement on government funding, President Trump is threatening to use the shutdown to fire some federal workers. Weijia Jiang reports. Source link

The White House is asking nine U.S. universities to sign an agreement pledging to uphold the Trump administration’s higher education priorities, or risk losing out on preferred access to federal funding.The demands are outlined in a nine-page document, title the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” that asks schools to freeze their tuition rate for five years, ban the use of sex and gender as factors in their admissions process, and cap their international student numbers, among other requirements. Signatories also must commit to “transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas,”…

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, speaks with reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House on July 17. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Trump said Thursday that he would meet with his budget director, Russ Vought, about which “Democrat Agencies” to cut as the federal government has lurched into a shutdown. The federal government’s day-to-day operations are carried out by nonpartisan workers with some federal agencies led by political appointees. But the Trump administration is using the shutdown to take aim at the Democratic Party. “I can’t…

The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have issued a joint intelligence bulletin obtained by CBS News that warns of attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and facilities, including by “domestic violent extremists” claiming to respond to immigration enforcement activities.The memo — circulated to state and local law enforcement nationwide on Wednesday — assesses that since June, extremists in at least three states have conducted targeted, pre-planned violent attacks against ICE personnel and facilities. It says the attacks represent “an evolution in tactics and an escalation in violence compared to [domestic violent extremists’] past attacks, which primarily resulted…

Breaking down new report on extremist political violence – CBS News Watch CBS News A new report from the Center for Strategic and International studies looked at 30 years of extremist political violence in America and analyzed what motivated violence from the right and left extremes. CSIS Director Daniel Byman joins to discuss. Source link

Washington — While President Trump billed the federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital as an effort to crack down on violent crime, internal government data obtained by CBS News shows nearly 40% of over 3,500 arrests made since the operation began in early August were strictly immigration-related.The federal government statistics indicate that, as of Sept. 29, federal and local law enforcement officials assigned to the Trump administration’s high-profile operation in Washington, D.C., had reported making just over 3,550 arrests.Nearly 1,400 of those arrests were counted as administrative arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the federal…

If Christa Gail Pike’s execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago. After attempted appeals by Pike’s attorneys repeatedly failed, the Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for her to be executed.The order granted a scheduling request from the state for the death warrant to be carried out Sept. 30, 2026, at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, which houses a majority of Tennessee’s death row inmates. Under the terms of this week’s state Supreme…