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IRS furloughs nearly half of its workforce due to government shutdown
People exit the the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters The IRS on Wednesday said that it was furloughing nearly half of its workforce due to the ongoing government shutdown. About 34,000 IRS workers are being furloughed, according to the tax agency. Another 39,870 […]
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Senate to vote on funding bills again as government shutdown enters second week
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks next to Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on the third day of a partial government shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 3, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters The Senate is set to […]
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James Comey to be arraigned on criminal charges that Trump sought
FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director, James Comey appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Hart Office Building on Thursday June 08, 2017 in Washington, DC. Matt McClain | The Washington Post | Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday morning on criminal charges in Virginia that President Donald […]
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U.S. air traffic control staffing hit for second day, delaying flights
A plane takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport as operations resume a day after the airport operated for hours without a staffed control tower due to staffing shortages amid the U.S. government shutdown in Burbank, California, U.S., October 7, 2025. Daniel Cole | Reuters Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying flights for a second […]
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Trump suggests not all furloughed workers will get back pay: ‘It depends’
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he and Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney (not pictured) meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 7, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that some federal workers who have been furloughed during the government shutdown will not receive […]
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Republicans face pressure to consider Democrats’ health care demands as shutdown drags on
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), as Lori Chavez-DeRemer, U.S. President Trump’s nominee to be secretary of labor testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 19, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters Sen. Susan Collins is reportedly […]
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AG Bondi stonewalls question about Trump mentions in Epstein files at Senate hearing
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a oversight hearing of Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday stonewalled a question at a Senate Judiciary Committee about who ordered FBI agents to flag any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump […]
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Prosecutor resists Trump pressure to criminally charge New York AG James: MSNBC
U.S. President Donald Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Brian Snyder | David Dee Delgado | Reuters A top federal prosecutor in Virginia is resisting pressure from President Donald Trump to seek a criminal indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime antagonist of Trump, MSNBC reported Monday. The prosecutor, Elizabeth […]
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Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program for low-income Americans
Employees work on solar panels at the QCells solar energy manufacturing factory in Dalton, Georgia, March 2, 2023. Megan Varner | Reuters Several groups and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 […]
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Senate to vote again on funding bill as government shutdown stalemate enters sixth day
US Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican from South Dakota, speaks to reporters outside of his office at the US Capitol, on the second day of the US government shutdown in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | Afp | Getty Images The Senate is set to vote again on Monday on a […]
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