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#1 Trump Signs Deal to End Longest US Government Shutdown in History - Times News, Max Bonilla, Rumiana Hvostova, Derick, Nick Sortor/Autsai, and Rick Watts on X
President Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, roughly two hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers, and revive a hobbled air traffic control system. The Republican-controlled chamber passed the package by a vote of 222-209, with Trump's support largely keeping his party together in the face of vehement opposition from House Democrats, who are angry that a long standoff launched by their Senate colleagues failed to secure a deal to extend federal health insurance subsidies. "For the past 43 days, Democrats in Congress shut down the government of the United States," Trump said before putting pen to paper, accusing his opponents of attempting "to extort American taxpayers". Trump's signature on the bill, which cleared the Senate earlier in the week, will bring federal workers idled by the 43-day shutdown back to their jobs starting as early as Thursday, although just how quickly full government services and operations will resume is unclear...#2 Shutdown Deal Sparks Latest Round of Democrat Infighting - Elena Schneider and Lisa Kashinsky for Politico, motMAGAmemes, Jesse Watters/Noah Christopher, Michael Devine, GZERO Media, Georgia Log Cabin, and NEWSMAX on X
Behind closed doors on Wednesday, a Nevada Democrat implored her House colleagues to “stop pissing on each other and start pissing on” Republicans over the shutdown deal, according to two people familiar with her remarks. They weren’t all listening. While battleground lawmaker Susie Lee was making her case for a united Democratic front, clips of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) bashing Senate Democrats who supported ending the federal government shutdown were racking up hundreds of thousands of views online. The decision by eight Senate Democrats to give Republicans the necessary votes to reopen the federal government this week, without securing definitive concessions on healthcare costs, has inflamed divisions within a party that has for years been reeling from internal feuds. Now, Democratic strategists are warning the latest fight is distracting from the party’s mission of pummeling the GOP ahead of the pivotal midterms next year...
#3 Epstein Alleged That Trump ‘Spent Hours’ With One of His Victims, as Thousands of Documents Released - Caitlin Wilson and Alex Smith for Axios, InfactoWeaver, benny, Mario Nawfal, The Middle Eastern, and Sandra on X
We've spent the last few hours combing through a batch of more than 20,000 pages of documents, images, and emails released by the House Oversight Committee relating to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Three emails - initially published by Democrats on the committee - featured exchanges between Epstein and his long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and separately with the author Michael Wolff. One of the emails, from Epstein to Maxwell in April 2011, reads: "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump... [Victim] spent hours at my house with him." Although the contents contain Trump's name, none of the emails are to or from Trump directly - and he has always denied wrongdoing...
#4 Trump on H-1B Visas: U.S. Lacks Enough ‘Talented People’ - Brett Samuels for The Hill, Bad Hombre, hoe_math = PsychoMath/Disclose.tv, Karoline Leavitt, AF Post, Black Capital/Eric Daugherty, and Dinesh D'Souza on X
President Trump in a new interview defended bringing in foreign workers on visas, arguing the U.S. did not have enough people with “certain talents” to do particular jobs. Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Trump on the issue of H-1B visas, which have been a point of division among conservatives. Ingraham argued that bringing in thousands of foreign workers would hurt efforts to raise wages for Americans. President Trump in a new interview defended bringing in foreign workers on visas, arguing the U.S. did not have enough people with “certain talents” to do particular jobs. Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Trump on the issue of H-1B visas, which have been a point of division among conservatives. Ingraham argued that bringing in thousands of foreign workers would hurt efforts to raise wages for Americans.
#5 Trump Organization Requested Record Number of Foreign Workers in 2025 - Ryan Mancini for The Hill, Jo Cinderella, brothersjudd, Forbes Middle East, Rick Spencer, and john david booty on X
The Trump Organization requested 184 foreign workers to work across various company properties, a record number that has increased over the years. The company sought to hire workers through H-2A and H-2B visas for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs, and at Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville, Va., according to data from the Department of Labor. Over the course of Trump’s first term and the first nine months of his second term, the Trump Organization’s visa requests increased from 121 in 2021 to 184 in 2025, according to Forbes. Overall, the company has filed to hire 566 foreign laborers to work as servers, farm workers, kitchen staff, clerks, and housekeepers, primarily...
#6 Starbucks Workers Kick Off 65-Store U.S. Strike On Company’s Busy Red Cup Day - The Associated Press, George Leroy Tirebiter, O.C. Register, Josh Eidelson, Delaware Online, and Instant Izzy (Your Friendly Mortgage & RE Guru) on X
More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers plan to strike at 65 U.S. stores on Thursday to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company. The strike was intended to disrupt Starbucks’ Red Cup Day, which is typically one of the company’s busiest days of the year. Since 2018, Starbucks has given out free, reusable cups on that day to customers who buy a holiday drink. Starbucks Workers United, the union organizing Starbucks baristas, said stores in 45 cities would be impacted, including New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Diego, St. Louis, Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, and Starbucks’ home city of Seattle. There is no date set for the strike to end, and more stores are prepared to join if Starbucks doesn’t reach a contract agreement with the union, organizers said...
#7 Judge Hears Arguments Thursday in Bid by James Comey and Letitia James to Disqualify Lindsey Halligan - Hannah Rabinowitz and Devan Cole for CNN, RELENTLESSLY GAY, ABC News/NeverForget, Why Is It Trending, Ahmjus Ay'n, and The Wall Street Journal on X
The criminal cases against two of the president’s fervent political adversaries face a critical test Thursday, as attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James argue in court that the prosecutor who single-handedly brought their charges is unlawfully serving in her post. The argument has put a target on Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s handpicked interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was tapped for the job days after her predecessor was ousted for resisting bringing charges against James related to a mortgage fraud investigation...
#8 MSNBC’s Name Is Being Replaced, but Its Leaders Insist That Its Mission Will Remain the Same - David Bauder for AP, MSNBC/KMcM.A.G.A., Joe Honest Truth, JewishAmericanPatriot, Rob, and MySA on X
Asked what viewers should expect when television’s MSNBC makes its corporate divorce from NBC News official this weekend, network president Rebecca Kutler points to a poster on the wall of a conference room at its new offices off Times Square. Its message reads: “Same Mission. New Name.” “To me, that encapsulates exactly what we need to be saying,” Kutler said. “Our job in the next few weeks is to flood the zone ... and make sure they know the thing that they love will be the exact same thing on Nov. 15.” Saturday is when MSNBC officially becomes MS NOW, standing for My Source for News, Opinion and the World. That’s the most visible manifestation of parent company Comcast’s decision to spin off most of its cable networks into a new company known as Versant...
#9 Democrat Strategist: Party Must Look at Non-Politician for 2028 Nominee - Breitbart TV, TargetSmart, DeSota Wilson/CALL TO ACTIVISM, Politi_Rican/Fran Auerbach, and Tara Bull/Chipon X
On Wednesday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Democratic Strategist Julian Epstein discussed the 2028 race on the Democratic side. Epstein said politicians are unpopular and “I think what you could find is somebody out of the business community that has charisma…and that can get some energy and charisma around a centrist idea of building.” “The Alex Marlow Show,” hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, is a weekday podcast produced by Breitbart News and Salem Podcast Network...#10 US Mint in Philadelphia Presses Last Pennies as Coin Is Canceled - Newsmax, D. Scott, Breaking News of the Day, @frankR346, PapaHemingway, and Akash agrahari on X
The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and because the 1-cent coin that could once buy a snack or a piece of candy had become increasingly irrelevant. The last pennies were struck at the mint in Philadelphia, where the country's smallest-denomination coins have been produced since 1793, a year after Congress passed the Coinage Act. Officials said the final few pennies would be auctioned off. "God bless America, and we're going to save the taxpayers $56 million," U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach said just before hitting a button to strike the final penny...
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