Hundreds of thousands of military personnel were set to return to work this week after the government shutdown ended Thursday following a historic 43 days. But furloughed civilian defense employees, who haven't received a paycheck in weeks despite being ordered back to the office, still have to wait several days for back pay. Paychecks for civilian employees at the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs are set to be processed Sunday, according to a memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). First reported by Semafor, the document notes that the paychecks "will include standard pay as well as payments" for things like overtime and hazard pay. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
Republicans are at odds over an effort to unwind a controversial provision tucked into the bill to reopen the government that would allow senators to sue for substantial sums if they aren't notified when federal law enforcement seeks their phone records.
The provision has fueled classic tensions between the House and the Senate, prompted an effort to repeal the new law, divided Republicans, and started to become fodder for primary opponents. |
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Canada has lost its measles elimination status nearly three decades after it achieved the distinction, under circumstances that closely resemble what's happened in the U.S. this year.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) notified the Public Health Agency of Canada last week that the country no longer holds a measles elimination status, meaning the region of the Americas at large has lost this categorization. |
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President Trump's supporters are worried he is muddling his populist message as Republicans seek to keep the party base together going into the midterm election year. This week, Trump faced an uproar from his most faithful MAGA supporters when he defended the H-1B visas and inviting foreign students to come study in the U.S. Conservative critics including and perhaps most prominently, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) accused the president of contradicting his America First message. Meanwhile, the president has continued to tout expensive White House renovations, including his long anticipated ballroom addition in place of the East Wing, as he seeks to tackle the issue of affordability. |
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The growing rift between President Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) boiled over Friday night into Saturday morning with back-and-forth jabs online following weeks of criticism surrounding files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and concerns over affordability and health care. Their feud exploded when Trump withdrew his endorsement of her late Friday and called her "wacky" and a "ranting Lunatic." He then threatened her with the possibility of being primaried. He also blasted the Georgian Republican as "another Fake politician" and "a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!" |
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House lawmakers have a laundry list of legislative priorities to focus on now that the government shutdown battle is behind them. Because the lower chamber was out of session for over a month, the next few weeks will be critical as lawmakers try to make up time and negotiate an annual defense policy bill, address the soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies and pass appropriation bills to avert yet another possible shutdown at the end of January. |
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Saturday shared pictures of his face after being hospitalized for injuries tied to a fall. "20 stitches later and a full recovery, I'm back home with @giselefetterman and the kids. I'm overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes. Truly," the lawmaker wrote in a statement on X. |
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday said President Trump was "deeply worried about" the controversy surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after House Democrats leaked emails from the case that mentioned the president by name. "Well, he is in daily panic mode as we get closer to the moment these files and the fullest truth that we have available to us is going to be made public," Murphy told The Bulwark's Sam Stein at The Texas Tribune Festival. |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday called for "a new way forward" after President Trump withdrew his endorsement amid the once-close duo's growing rift. Greene thanked those who showed their support in a post on social platform X, a day after Trump called her "wacky" and pulled back his support. He has also threatened to back a primary challenger against her. |
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OPINION | Democratic capitulation to Republican pressure over the government shutdown may seem like a win for President Trump in the short-term. But after the recent bloodbath at the polls, if Republicans do nothing to relieve the pressure Americans face from soaring health care premiums, the party faces a midterm election nightmare.
Combined with growing calls to release the Epstein files and unprecedented disapproval ratings, Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress need to show Americans they have actual solutions to their health care problems and are not just willing to let the majority of Americans eat cake. Or nothing at all, as the recent SNAP case shows. |
BY CHRYSANTHI SKALIOTIS AND ABIGAIL R. HALL |
OPINION | New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious agenda for his city. In addition to promising big changes to its transportation system, Mamdani vowed to make housing more affordable.
The focus on housing affordability is understandable, given that the average rent of a one-bedroom apartment in the Big Apple is more than $4,000 a month. For many in the city, housing costs consume nearly a half of their income, leaving little room for savings or any security. |
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BY NICHOLAS NEHAMAS, MICHAEL H. KELLER, ALEXANDRA BERZON, HAMED ALEAZIZ AND ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS |
The Department of Homeland Security has diverted thousands of federal agents from their normal duties to focus on arresting undocumented immigrants, undermining a wide range of law enforcement operations in response to mounting pressure from President Trump, a New York Times investigation has found.
Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children, for instance, have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown for weeks at a time, hampering their pursuit of child predators. |
If things weren't already frothy enough around AI, now the excitement is headed toward the Moon—literally.
The world's richest men are earnestly talking about traveling to outer space to build gigantic data centers to run artificial-intelligence models among the stars. They argue such missions make the most sense for powering energy-hungry operations.
"The moon is a gift from the universe," Jeff Bezos recently said when talking about the benefits of lunar development and using it as a base for launching projects in space. |
Iran's foreign minister on Sunday said that Tehran is no longer enriching uranium at any site in the country.
Answering a question from an Associated Press journalist visiting Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered the most direct response yet from the Iranian government regarding its nuclear program following Israel and the United States' bombing its enrichment sites in June. |
BY DAN DIAMOND AND PAIGE WINFIELD CUNNINGHAM |
President Donald Trump has again promised a "far better and far less expensive" alternative to the Affordable Care Act, and Republicans are rushing — again — to deliver one.
For weeks throughout the longest government shutdown in history, Trump avoided negotiating with Democrats on the health care concerns fueling their standoff. Now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are speeding toward a self-imposed deadline of mid-December to hold dueling health care votes.
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