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The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday as the government hurtled toward a shutdown. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images Much of the federal government is now shut down after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate failed to agree on a pair of dueling funding bills to keep the government open. Republicans voted to block a bill proposed by Democrats that included government funding through the end of October and an extension of federal healthcare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. The second bill was also defeated nearly…

Ahead of Wednesday’s government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday posted a banner in large type on its homepage blaming the shutdown on the “Radical Left,” an allegation that an ethics group said was a “blatant violation” of the Hatch Act. “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands,” the message read. “The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.”A complaint filed Tuesday with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel by the…

Society / September 30, 2025 In light of new data showing over 400 people have been prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, we should be wary of how Trump’s directives may be used against women. Ad Policy (Shutterstock) Accompanying Donald Trump’s press conference last week on the purported link between Tylenol and autism was a fact sheet on the White House website titled, “Evidence Suggests Link Between Acetaminophen, Autism.” It begins with a quote by press secretary Karoline Leavitt: “The Trump Administration does not believe popping more pills is always the answer for better health.” Since the widely criticized press conference, medical…

The White House is withdrawing the nomination of E.J. Antoni to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a White House Official confirmed to CBS News.The official did not provide a reason for the withdrawal on Tuesday, but said Antoni was a “brilliant economist” and that President Trump would announce a new nominee in the near future.CNN was first to report the nomination had been withdrawn.Antoni was nominated for the role by Mr. Trump in August, after the president fired former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer earlier in the month following a weaker-than-expected jobs report, which he blamed her for.Mr. Trump at…

Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations discovered an additional 200,000 SIM cards at a location in New Jersey, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News. This follows last week’s discovery by U.S. Secret Service of a sprawling telecommunications network in the New York Tri-State area that investigators said could potentially have caused a serious disruption to New York’s telecom systems and threatened the United Nations General Assembly meetings.Agents were first tipped off last spring, and officials believe that among other foreign links, the telecommunications network was connected to Chinese actors, according to two law enforcement sources briefed on the probe. Authorities still…

The website for the Department of Housing and Urban Development features a banner and popup message blaming the “Radical Left” for an impending government shutdown. Screenshot/HUD.gov hide caption toggle caption Screenshot/HUD.gov The Trump administration is blaming Democrats for the likely government shutdown in internal federal agency communications as well as on at least one public website, in what experts say could be a violation of federal ethics laws. A bright red banner and pop-up message that appeared Tuesday on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website warns: “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict…

Actress Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from her husband, country musician Keith Urban, after nearly 20 years of marriage, according to court documents obtained Tuesday by CBS News. The documents show that the 58-year-old Kidman filed for divorce Monday from the 57-year-old Urban in Davidson County Circuit Court in Nashville, Tennessee, where the couple resides. She cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason, per the court documents. A separate marital dissolution agreement signed by both Kidman and Urban shows that the two reached a co-parenting arrangement that will see Kidman serve as the “primary residential parent” of their two teenage daughters, with…

Politics / September 30, 2025 The former hard-charging deputy attorney general succumbed to political hubris as FBI director, and discredited the federal justice system in the process. Ad Policy Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in via videoconference to testify before a 2020 Senate Judiciary hearing on federal investigations of the 2016 election. (Ken Cedeno / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty Images) It was August of 2005, and Jim Comey was delivering a memorable and heartfelt speech in the Department of Justice’s historic Great Hall as he stepped down from his position as deputy attorney general (DAG). Comey compared…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer debate government funding on Senate floor on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. Senate TV Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer got into a rare direct back-and-forth on the Senate floor ahead of the shutdown deadline.”Democrats have a choice to make. They can shut down the government and subject the American people to all the problems that come with a shutdown, many of which, as I’ve said, they’ve enumerated in the countless quotes they’ve made in the past,” Thune said. “Or they can join Republicans to pass a clean,…

Washington — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation in order to strike fear into international students and curb lawful speech.In a 161-page decision, U.S. District Judge William Young delivered a blistering assessment of the Trump administration’s efforts to pursue international students who expressed pro-Palestinian views on college campuses, which he said was constitutionally protected speech. The judge, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, was unsparing not only in his views of Noem and Rubio’s actions, but also of…