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How should federal employees prepare for a potential government shutdown? 09/26/2025 06:42pm • A last-minute compromise to avoid a government shutdown doesn't look probable as the deadline approaches. Federal News Network "Federal Drive" host Terry Gerton has tips on what federal workers could be doing. As of Friday afternoon, Congress has four days to agree on a stopgap bill that woul Trump moves toward deal to give US an equity stake in company developing Nevada lithium mine 09/26/2025 05:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world's largest lithium mines in northern Nevada, an official said. The Department of Energy and Lithium Americas, d European defense ministers agree to press on with 'drone wall' project as airspace violations mount 09/26/2025 02:25pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — European defense ministers agreed on Friday to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, track and intercept drones violating Europe’s airspace. The decision comes after a spate of incidents in which Europe’s borders and airports h Belarus proposes a new nuclear plant to supply energy to Russian-occupied Ukraine 09/26/2025 10:27am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus unveiled a proposal on Friday to build a second nuclear power plant capable of supplying energy to Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine. President Alexander Lukashenko raised the plans during a meeting at the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin, who appeared to pub Guardiola says Walker 'one of the greatest fullbacks ever' ahead of return to Man City 09/26/2025 08:28am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola described Kyle Walker as “one of the greatest fullbacks ever” and ranked him alongside superstars like Cafu and Javier Zanetti ahead of the England defender's return to Etihad Stadium with Burnley on Saturday. It will be the 35-y Mortgage Rate Too Good to Be True? Read the Fine Print 09/25/2025 08:00pm • Mortgage rates have been steadily decreasing throughout August and September, with 30-year fixed mortgage rates hovering at or below 6.5%. In what seems like a miraculous turn, many lenders are offering rates below 6% -- which has been an important milestone for Americans waiting to buy a home or re Wall Street stumbles again for a 3rd straight loss 09/25/2025 05:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street stumbled to a third straight loss on Thursday as U.S. stocks gave back more of their big gains for the year so far. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% and marked its longest losing streak in more than a month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 173 points, or 0.4%, and the Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen urge Supreme Court to let Lisa Cook keep her job as a Fed governor 09/25/2025 03:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen and other former top economic officials appointed by presidents of both parties urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to preserve the Federal Reserve's political independence and allow Lisa Cook to remain as a central bank governor for now Former Arsenal youth player Billy Vigar dies after sustaining brain injury during soccer game 09/25/2025 03:24pm • CHICHESTER, England (AP) — Former Arsenal youth player Billy Vigar has died after sustaining a “significant brain injury” during a lower-league soccer match in England. He was 21. His death was confirmed by his club Chichester City on Thursday. Vigar was placed in an induced coma after sustai He was a loan mortgage officer. Now Ben Griffin is in the Ryder Cup 09/25/2025 02:42pm • FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Ben Griffin is in the Ryder Cup, a remarkable rise that is certain to be an inspiration to thousands of American golfers who are good enough to at least dream. Griffin laughed when asked how many careers he might have ruined in the process. “You mean all the loan officer Average rate on a 30-year mortgage edges higher after declining four weeks in a row 09/25/2025 02:11pm • The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage ticked up this week, ending a four-week slide that brought down borrowing costs for homebuyers to the lowest level in nearly a year. The rate rose to 6.3% from 6.26% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.08%. US home sales sluggish in August despite late-summer mortgage rate slide 09/25/2025 11:31am • Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes remained sluggish in August, even as a late-summer slide in mortgage rates brought home loan borrowing costs to a 10-month low. Existing home sales slipped 0.2% last month from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million units, the National Associat What to know about the opposition around renaming new Pell grants after Trump 09/25/2025 10:51am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A proposal to brand a new type of federal Pell Grant as “Trump Grants” has sparked pushback from Rhode Island lawmakers who want the program to retain the name of its creator — the state’s longest-serving U.S. senator. The name change is currently tucked inside a Ho China gives up developing-country benefits to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs 09/25/2025 08:12am • SHANGHAI (AP) — China has said it would no longer seek the special treatment given to developing countries in World Trade Organization agreements — a change long demanded by the United States. Commerce Ministry officials said Wednesday the move was an attempt to boost the global trading system a Early education gets a $10 million boost in Montgomery County 09/25/2025 05:53am • As their classroom was packed with standing adults, students at the Academy Child Development Center at Stone Mill Elementary School in North Potomac, Maryland, sat quietly at tables barely noticing the press conference that was taking place around them. While parents would have been incredibly h