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Ad Policy Elon Musk, with his son X, speaks as Donald Trump looks on at a victory rally at the Capital One Arena on January 19, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter / Getty Images) Don’t forget to ⁠vote for American Prestige ⁠in the Signal Awards! Danny welcomes to the show journalist and historian Garrett Graff, host of the podcast Long Shadow. They talk about the show’s latest season about the Internet, tracing how its promise of democratization and liberation devolved into an engine of polarization and conspiracies. Topics include: Facebook’s cynical algorithmic choices, Watergate’s enduring influence on American political…

Congress failed to reach a funding deal by Wednesday morning’s deadline, leading to a government shutdown that will force active-duty service members to continue to serve without pay until a deal is made. During a government shutdown, all active-duty personnel, as well as National Guard who are currently deployed, must carry out their assigned duties with their pay delayed until the shutdown is over. Civilian personnel whose work the Defense Department considers essential, or “excepted,” will also continue to work, while other civilians are furloughed for the duration of the shutdown. “After the government shutdown, all government employees will automatically receive back pay,…

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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…