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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanWhat Supreme Court justices signaled in arguments over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could strike down bans on so-called conversion therapy for children. Conversion therapy broadly refers to attempts to change a personโs sexual orientation or gender identity and is banned in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Geoff Bennett discussed Tuesday's arguments with News Hour Supreme Court analyst and SCOTUSblog co-founder Amy Howe.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:
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3 takeaways from Bondi’s combative DOJ oversight hearing
Democratic senators had questions. Attorney General Pam Bondi wasnโt answering them.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:US military kills senior al Qaeda-affiliated attack planner
The United States military killed a senior al Qaeda-affiliated attack planner last week in Syria, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced on Tuesday. Centcom said its forces conducted a strike on Oct. 2 that killed Muhammad Abd-al-Wahhab al-Ahmad, who the U.S. military says was a member of Ansar al-Islam, an al Qaeda affiliated terrorist group. โU.S....
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Trump threatens no back pay for furloughed federal workers after shutdown ends
As the government shutdown hits the one-week mark with no end in sight, President Trump issued a new threat, saying that furloughed federal workers may not be reimbursed with back pay once the government reopens. It reverses what's been a long-standing policy and possibly goes against a 2019 law that ensures back pay for federal workers. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:3 big takeaways from The Hillโs Health Next Summit
The state of the countryโs health care landscape is in flux, according to top health experts and lawmakers, as the federal government shutdown hinges on the battle over health care access and new priorities crystallize under the second Trump administration. Health policy experts, key lawmakers and industry leaders spoke at The Hillโs โHealth Next Summitโ...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Trump considers $10 billion bailout for farmers as tariffs disrupt the market
President Trump is said to be preparing a bailout package of at least $10 billion that could provide relief to farmers facing the financial pain of tariffs on China. To discuss what this means for farmers and for the heartland, Liz Landers spoke with Aaron Lehman. He is the President of the Iowa Farmers Union, representing growers in the second-largest soybean-producing state in the country.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:The complications and risks of relationships with AI chatbots
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized everything from healthcare to art. It's now filling voids in some personal lives as AI chatbots are becoming friends, therapists and even romantic partners. As this technology enters our lives in new ways, our relationship with it has become more complicated and more risky. Stephanie Sy reports. A warning, this story includes discussion of suicide.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Federal workers will get paid after shutdown: Here's why
White House officials are raising the possibility that furloughed federal workers might not be entitled to back pay from their time off during the government shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers woke up Oct. 1 to find themselves furloughed or working without pay, after government funding lapsed overnight. President Trump on Tuesday said some furloughed...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Johnson says Bad Bunny 'terrible decision' for Super Bowl, suggests Lee Greenwood
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday he thinks it was a โterrible decisionโ for the NFL to tap Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Bad Bunny to headline the Super Bowl halftime show in February. โI didnโt even know who Bad Bunny was, but it sounds like a terrible decision, in my view,โ Johnson told a reporter, when...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Authors of ‘Science Under Siege’ warn of concerted effort to discredit science
From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump Administration has set off alarm bells within the scientific community. William Brangham spoke with two prominent researchers about "Science Under Siege," their new book chronicling what they argue is a concerted war on science.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Trump: Some feds 'don't deserve' back pay
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump threatens worker backpay in shutdown fight The White House is wielding the new threat of no back pay for furloughed workers as a tactic to pressure Democrats to end the weeklong government shutdown. AP...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:WATCH LIVE: The winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry is…
The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday. Watch here at 5:30 a.m. EDT.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:WATCH: Delay swearing in Rep. Grijalva ‘has nothing to do’ with Epstein petition, Johnson says
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday heโll schedule the swearing in of the new Arizona Democratic House member "as soon as she wants."
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:White House says it will use tariff money to fund nutrition program amid shutdown
The White House said Tuesday it will use money from tariff revenue to fund a supplemental nutrition program facing a funding shortage amid the ongoing government shutdown. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on the social platform X that President Trump and the White House had identified the "creative solution" to shift tariff funds...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Senate confirms Trump's NOAA pick as part of large batch of nominees
The Senate has voted to confirm President Trumpโs pick to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of a group of nominees confirmed en masse. The Senate voted 51-47 on the entire bloc of 107 nominations, including the confirmation of Neil Jacobs as the under secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. Jacobs may...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:1 in 5 people in US is Latino for first time in history: Analysis
For the first time in American history, one in five people living in the U.S. identify as Latino, according to a new study by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California Lutheran University. The Tuesday study used data from the 2024 U.S. Census Bureau. Released in June, the data showed an increase of...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Senate GOP confirms batch of 107 Trump nomineesย
Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed a second bloc of President Trump's nominees, cementing 107 into place after changing the rules last month to grease the skids and overcome Democratic gridlock. Senators voted 51-47 on the package along party lines. โBefore Senate Democrats shut down the federal government, they shut down the Senate floor โ freezing...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Jamie Dimon on government shutdown: 'A bad idea'
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Tuesday called the government shutdown "a bad idea,โ but also said he didn't know if previous shutdowns impacted the economy or market "in a real way.โ โI don't like shutdowns, I think it's just a bad idea. And I don't care what the Democrats, Republicans say, it's a bad...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Trump directs admin to approve mining road
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump says admin should approve Ambler Road President Trump is directing his administration to approve a controversial road that could enable copper and cobalt mining in Alaska, the White House announced. Alex Brandon, Associated Press In a fact sheet, the White House said Trump...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Key crypto agency roiled
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Key crypto agency in turmoil The White Houseโs decision to pull its nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has left the financial regulator in an increasingly uncertain position, with just one remaining commissioner in place to tackle President Trumpโs ambitious crypto agenda. Al Drago/Bloomberg...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Democrats could have slight shot at winning House seat in Utah with new congressional map
Utahโs Republican-led Legislature has approved a revised congressional map that could give Democrats an improved chance at flipping a seat as the party fights to topple the GOPโs slim majority in the U.S. House.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:U.N. refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law
Filippo Grandi on Monday also criticized a wider "backlash" in some countries against migrants and refugees.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:At the center of shutdown fight, health care is one of the most intractable issues in Congress
There are some Republicans in Congress who want to extend the higher subsidies, which were first put in place in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. But many GOP lawmakers are firmly opposed to any extension.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:FBI analyzed phone records of senators as part of Trump Jan. 6 probe, lawmakers say
The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to information released Monday by GOP senators.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Illinois braces for possible National Guard arrival while lawsuit challenging deployment simmers
Gov. JB Pritzker says some Guard troops from Illinois were to be federalized and deployed to Chicago with others from Texas.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:US liquor exports to Canada drop 85 percent
United States liquor exports to Canada declined by 85 percent in the second quarter of 2025, according to a new report, which cited the โadverse impactโ of ongoing trade tensions. The midyear report, released Monday by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), shows that exports to Canada dropped to $9.6 million in...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Oregon governor calls Trump’s actions ‘an abuse of power and threat to our democracy’
President Trumpโs plan to deploy National Guard troops to U.S. cities is setting up a new showdown in federal courts over the limits of his authority. Illinois sued the administration to stop plans to send in 400 troops from Texas. It comes after a separate judge blocked Trump from sending Californiaโs National Guard to Oregon. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek.
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Trump pushes Israel, Hamas to brink of Gaza peace deal: What to know
Two years since Hamasโs deadly terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Trumpโs push for peace in the Gaza Strip appears within reach. Israeli and Hamas officials started indirect negotiations in earnest on Monday in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh on Egyptโs Sinai Peninsula. The president is exercising enormous...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Congress appears no closer to ending government shutdown
In our news wrap Monday, lawmakers appear no closer to reopening the government as the shutdown approaches the one-week mark, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, French Prime Minister Sรฉbastien Lecornu resigned just a day after announcing his cabinet and Israeli authorities say they've deported more than 170 activists who took part in a flotilla aiming to take aid to Gaza.
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Live updates: Senate mired in shutdown stalemate; Trump looks to bypass courts in Portland
Two big stories are roiling Washington: the government shutdown and National Guard deployments. The Senate on Monday voted down two dueling bills to end the government shutdown, deepening the stalemate as the funding lapse approaches the one-week mark. Lawsuits in Oregon and Illinois have plunged President Trump's efforts to send any National Guard troops to...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Senate rejects dueling government funding bills on Day 6 of shutdown
The Senate on Monday pushed the government shutdown to the one-week mark as Democrats blocked the GOP's "clean" stopgap funding bill from advancing for a fifth time. Senators voted 52-42 on the House-passed bill, which needed 60 votes to advance and would have funded the government at Biden-era spending levels until late November. The tally...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Hamas and Israel begin indirect talks to end devastating war in Gaza
Israel and Hamas launched indirect talks in Egypt for a potential ceasefire. The first phase of the U.S.-drafted peace plan calls for the release of the Israeli hostages in exchange for the partial withdrawal of Israeli troops. A second phase envisions the end of the war and a lasting governance plan for Gaza. Nick Schifrin reports.
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:OpenAI inks AMD deal
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story OpenAI signs deal with AMD for AI chips OpenAI has signed a deal with chipmaker AMD to obtain six gigawattsโ worth of the companyโs AI chips, just weeks after unveiling a similar agreement with Nvidia. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer The ChatGPT maker will have the option to take...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:More Israeli reservists are refusing military deployment to Gaza
A new poll finds that two-thirds of Israelis say the time has come to end the war in Gaza. It's the highest number since the beginning of the war nearly two years ago. That divide in Israeli society is reflected inside its military. Some reservists say the war must be fought and won, and others are refusing to serve. Nick Schifrin reports.
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Costs of shutdown rising
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Shutdown costs economy about $15B a week: Hassett National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett warned Monday that the government shutdown could cost the U.S. economy approximately $15 billion a week. AP In an interview on...
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