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What shutdown? Trump isn't canceling travel, golf or his ballroom even with the government shuttered 10/29/2025 06:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn't curtailing travel. He's not avoiding golf or making do with a skeleton staff in the West Wing. Even hamburgers served at the White House aren't from McDonalds, this time. In shutdowns past — including during Trump's first term — presidents normal Bet365 Bonus Code WTOP365: Unlock $200 Bonus for World Series Game 5, NBA, NFL 10/29/2025 06:32pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services The latest bet365 bonus code WTOP365 comes at a perfect time with Game 5 of the World Series and 10 NBA games taking place tonight. 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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 7 What a Federal Reserve rate cut means for your finances 10/29/2025 03:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Before that, it had gone nine months without a cut. The federal funds rate is the rate at which banks borrow and lend to one another. While the rates consumers pay From NFL stars to HBCU head coaches: Vick and Jackson on same path as they reunite in Philadelphia 10/29/2025 03:31pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — Years before DeSean Jackson and Michael Vick thrilled Eagles fans with deep-threat touchdown passes and decades before they became head coaches set to lead their teams from historically Black colleges into a showcase game on national television at an NFL stadium, the future frie Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff gambles on shutdown to save health subsidies as reelection bid looms 10/29/2025 02:12pm • ATLANTA (AP) — There may be no rank-and-file Democratic senator with more at stake from the federal government shutdown than Georgia's Jon Ossoff. He is the party's only senator who is seeking reelection next year in a state that Republican Donald Trump won in 2024, and any chance that Democrats m Study finds EVs quickly overcome their energy-intensive build to be cleaner than gas cars 10/29/2025 02:00pm • DETROIT (AP) — Making electric vehicles and their batteries is a dirty process that uses a lot of energy. But a new study says that EVs quickly make up for that with less overall emissions through two years of use than a gas-powered vehicle. The study also estimated that gas-powered vehicles cause GM lays off 1,700 workers at plants in Michigan and Ohio amid slower EV demand 10/29/2025 01:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors is laying off about 1,700 workers across manufacturing sites in Michigan and Ohio, as the auto giant adjusts to slowing demand for electric vehicles. The Detroit News first reported the cuts on Wednesday — covering about 1,200 jobs at an all-electric plant in the D He helped deliver Arab American support for Trump. Now his path to Mideast post faces GOP opposition 10/29/2025 01:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Kuwait faces steep odds of confirmation with several Republican senators planning to oppose Amer Ghalib over past remarks they say are antisemitic. 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