United States Government Shutdown: Trump Seizes Opportunity for Federal Job Cuts Amid Partisan Standoff

Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, October 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump escalated the rhetoric surrounding the ongoing federal government shutdown, declaring that the Democratic Party had handed him an “unprecedented opportunity” to implement...

With shutdown halting reports, alternate data show weak job market

Alternate data from public and private sources, a substitute for official statistics delayed by a government shutdown, showed the U.S. job market likely remained stalled in September with sluggish hiring but no change in an unemployment rate...

United States Government Shutdown: House Speaker Mike Johnson Points Finger at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, October 2, 2025, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson sharply criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, attributing the ongoing federal government shutdown to Senate Democrats’ refusal to support a temporary...

U.S. Stocks Drift Near Their Records

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records on Thursday as technology stocks keep rising and as Wall Street keeps ignoring the shutdown of the U.S. government. The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged,...

U.S. Army Plans Major AH-64E Shift Amid Transformation

The U.S. Army will further realign its attack helicopter fleet by shifting a large number of its advanced AH-64E aircraft to the National Guard as it retires all of its AH-64D fleet, adding to more uncertainty in the service’s aviation community....

U.S. denies Iranian delegation entry to attend World Cup draw

The U.S. denied an Iranian delegation entry to attend the World Cup draw in the country, according to Amir-Mehdi Alawi, the spokesperson for the Iranian Football Federation. Among those affected were FFI president Mehdi Taj, head coach Amir...

U.S. stocks drift near their records as tech keeps rising and Wall Street keeps ignoring DC’s shutdown

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records today as technology stocks keep rising and as Wall Street keeps ignoring the shutdown of the U.S. government. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%, coming off its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones...

United States Denies Entry to Iranian Football Federation Delegation for World Cup Draw, Sparking Diplomatic Tensions

In a move that has reignited tensions between the United States and Iran, the U.S. government has denied entry visas to a delegation from the Iranian Football Federation (FFI) scheduled to attend the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., on December...

VIDEO: Michigan governor warns tariffs threaten auto jobs in U.S. and Canada

'When we say no to Canada, we say yes to China,' declared Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as she called for renewed unity between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico amid rising tensions over tariffs TORONTO - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did not mince words...

Fewer foreign students, fewer dollars: U.S. colleges feel the pinch

By Kaylee Kang, Jaimi Dowdell and Helen Coster (Reuters) -DePaul University has told faculty it will immediately reduce spending following a 30% decline in international enrollment this fall. The move is the latest by U.S. colleges to cope with...

NJ's nearly 30,000 federal employees work at these departments

A federal government shutdown has entered its second day, and there are up to about 29,000 federal employees in New Jersey who could be affected by the impasse. President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats blamed each other for failing to...

The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?

The U.S. is undergoing an extraordinary AI-fueled economic boom: The stock market is soaring thanks to exceptionally high valuations of AI-related tech firms, which are fueling economic growth by the hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars they are...

Arkansas' U.S. senators blame Democratic colleagues for government shutdown

WASHINGTON -- As U.S. senators waited Tuesday to vote on measures to fund the government, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., did not hesitate to blame his Democratic colleagues for the stalemate on Capitol Hill. "For the second time this year -- the second...

Groundbreaking Launched Effects Demonstration Marks Key Step in U.S. Army Modernization Strategy

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES 08.22.2025 Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA – The U.S. Army achieved a major modernization milestone with the Launched Effects-Short Range Special User Demonstration (LE-SR SUD). For the first time,...

The U.S. Government Shutdown: Its Impact on Immigration Cases

The U.S. government entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on October 1, 2025, after the president and congressional lawmakers could not reach an agreement to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2026. Without the enactment of a...

Shutdown Standoff in U.S. Senate Extends

By Ashley Murray, Jennifer Shutt and Shauneen Miranda, States Newsroom WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans remained at a stalemate Wednesday as government offices closed and hundreds of thousands of federal workers faced furloughs...

Government Shutdown Impacts The United States Economy, S&P Global Warns

On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, S&P Global, a leading international credit rating agency, released a report detailing the economic repercussions of the ongoing U.S. federal government shutdown. The agency warned that the partial closure of federal...

S&P 500 hits fresh high, Bitcoin climbs to $119k despite U.S. shutdown

The benchmark U.S. index S&P 500 rose on Thursday to record a fresh high, while Bitcoin jumped to above $119,000 as investors looked past the top headlines of a U.S. government shutdown. Summary S&P 500 jumped above 6,700 for a fresh record high...

Trump tells Congress U.S. is now at war with Caribbean drug cartels

President Donald Trump has “determined” that the United States is engaged in a formal armed conflict with “unlawful combatants” in drug cartels, in a move that further escalates the already-deadly situation in the southern Caribbean. In a...

Tough Tacoma immigration judge named new U.S. attorney in Western Washington

Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS) U.S. Immigration Judge Charles Neil Floyd, whose court is at the center of a class-action lawsuit over controversially tough rulings on bond for detained undocumented immigrants, has been tapped to be the new...