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Last Tuesday's off-year elections have altered the shutdown fight, just not in the way many on Capitol Hill had hoped.
Heading into last week, lawmakers on both sides had felt glimmers of optimism that they were on a path to dissolving the budget impasse. Centrist senators in both parties were negotiating over a potential spending compromise, and observers predicted that the Nov. 4 elections would grease the skids for a quick reopening of the government.
Just the opposite happened. |
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The shutdown, which has broken the record for the longest in U.S. history, has left many Americans wondering when exactly the government will reopen its doors.
Even lawmakers on Capitol Hill don't have the answer.
Though there have been bipartisan negotiations in the Senate, no agreement has been finalized that would satisfy both parties. Democrats have demanded an extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year. They have repeatedly blocked a Republican stopgap measure, that would fund the government till Nov. 21, from advancing in the upper chamber. |
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Senators ended a rare Saturday session at the Capitol with no votes, no text of a three-bill "minibus" and few signs of progress toward a possible shutdown offramp.
Lawmakers are now eyeing a possible vote on Sunday, when senators will gather again to try to find a solution to the 39-day funding impasse.
Senate GOP leaders decided against holding a vote late Saturday afternoon as negotiators push forward in a bid to wrap up a deal on the three-bill "minibus" to fund Military Construction, Agriculture and the Legislative branch for all of fiscal year 2026. According to two GOP sources, Republican senators are expected to huddle over lunch on Sunday and potentially vote once again on the House-passed stopgap spending bill. |
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Republicans are reeling over the apparent erosion of support from Latino voters, a voting bloc that boosted the party in 2024, in Tuesday's off-year elections.
According to CNN exit polling, New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D) won the support of 68 percent of Latino voters, while Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) received 67 percent support from Latino voters.
The results mark a shift from just one year ago, when the voting bloc helped propel President Trump to victory. Republicans say the time is now to course-correct ahead of next year's midterms. |
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A new study shows college women are struggling more than their male counterparts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The research, one of the first comparing how COVID-19 affected female and male college students, adds to trends seen in high school and even younger students regarding the disproportionate impact the pandemic had on girls.
Mental health and learning loss are some of the big reasons researchers suspect for the difference, and they urge schools to take action to help struggling students. |
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Democrats are feeling bullish about their chances of clinching both the Senate and governor's races in Georgia next year after the party won a pair of special elections this week that were seen as potential bellwether races ahead of 2026.
Democrats flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday, marking the first time in nearly two decades that the party won a statewide constitutional office. Republicans are brushing off the special election wins, saying local elections ultimately drove higher Democratic engagement. But Democrats believe the election results are giving the party a reason to feel optimistic about Sen. Jon Ossoff's (D-Ga.) reelection and their chance to flip the governor's mansion. |
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) slammed President Trump on Saturday while attending a rally to rail against Texas's successful redistricting efforts.
"We're dealing with an invasive species by the name of Donald Trump," Newsom told the crowd in Houston. "He is an historic president, however. A historically unpopular president, under every key category," he added. |
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President Trump on Saturday claimed Democrats were cracking under the pressure of the government shutdown, days after saying the federal closure is at least partly to blame for Republican losses during Tuesday's elections.
"The Democrats are cracking like dogs on the Shutdown because they are deathly afraid that I am making progress with the Republicans on TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. |
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President Trump is pushing to have the Washington Commanders' new $3.7 billion football stadium named after him, according to a report on Saturday.
"It's what the president wants, and it will probably happen," one source told ESPN. While the White House did not confirm the outlet's reporting, press secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested the name has a nice ring to it.
"That would surely be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible," Leavitt said in a Saturday statement to The Hill. |
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OPINION | I don't live in New York City, so I wasn't eligible to vote for or against Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. It didn't matter. My home's mailbox in Oyster Bay — a good 15 miles from New York City limits — was overflowing with anti-Mamdani campaign literature. Suddenly, every Democrat running for office in my suburban community was being equated with Mamdani. Moderate local officials were portrayed as Mamdani acolytes, working hand-in-hand to create some kind of dystopic socialist nightmare. It's guilt by association, even when there's little to no association.
The question is whether the strategy will be used by Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. Having led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in two cycles, I'm familiar with this playbook. Midterms are always a referenda on the president and his party; and with a president at historically low job approval levels, they have to change the subject. Find the bogeyman. |
OPINION | According to a new national poll, approximately half of Americans now say crime is an "extremely" or "very" serious problem. This marks the second straight year national concern has declined.
That shift reflects a real sense of progress: Violent crime rates have fallen in most cities since their pandemic-era highs, and headlines about crime spikes have grown rarer. But beneath those trends lies a quieter transformation. Crime itself is changing, and so are the people involved.
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The victories this past week of a democratic socialist in the New York mayor's race and two moderate Democrats in the governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey represented only the beginning of the battle over the future of the Democratic Party.
On one side are centrists like Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, who declared in her victory speech that voters had chosen "pragmatism over partisanship" and promised "actionable policies." On the other are progressives like Zohran Mamdani of New York, who warned hours later against bowing "at the altar of caution."
"Democrats," he said, "can dare to be great." |
Large companies are running into a problem as they try to claim some of the tax cuts that the Republican Congress passed this summer: They can't escape the corporate tax increase that Democrats passed three years ago.
Meta Platforms, Broadcom, Qualcomm and others are warning that they are now getting hit by the corporate alternative minimum tax, the 15% tax-rate floor that was part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
Basically, President Trump giveth, but former President Joe Biden taketh part of it away. |
Two decades ago, Ahmad al-Sharaa was held in a U.S.-run detention center in Iraq after joining al-Qaida militants fighting against American forces there.
Few would have predicted that he would go on to become the first Syrian president to visit Washington since the country's independence in 1946.
Since rebel forces he led ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad last December, al-Sharaa — who cut ties with al-Qaida years earlier — has gone on a largely successful charm offensive to establish new ties with countries that had shunned Assad's government after its brutal crackdown on protesters in 2011 spiraled into a 14-year civil war. |
BY AARON GREGG AND SHANNON NAJMABADI |
Cyndi Gave went nearly 30 years without ever needing to cut staff at her North Carolina-based consultancy, which advises businesses on hiring and leadership development.
But in August, she began calling some of her favorite clients, telling them they had the opportunity to hire The Metiss Group's "superstar" office manager — a 14-year employee and one of three she ultimately laid off. But the pitch went nowhere. Gave's clients — mostly businesses with 250 or fewer employees — were also pulling back on spending and hiring. "I was beginning to think it was just us," she said. |
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