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Furloughed IRS tax attorney starts second career running popular hot dog stand 10/29/2025 08:43pm • A furloughed federal tax attorney is turning his childhood dream into a reality with more time on his hands during the nearly monthlong government shutdown. Furloughed IRS tax attorney Isaac Stein, 31, is selling hot dogs from his ���Shysters Dogs" stand, whose motto is ���the only honest rip Ways to Lower Your Student Loan Interest Rate 10/29/2025 08:00pm • On average, class of 2024 graduates who took out loans left college with $29,890 in student loan debt. On its own, that's a lot to stomach. But with a 4.24% interest rate (the average federal undergraduate student loan interest rate for class of 2024 borrowers) and a 10-year repayment plan, you'd en What to Expect During the Mortgage Underwriting Process 10/29/2025 08:00pm • Mortgage underwriters are the fact-checkers of the home loan approval process, ensuring that the financial picture you portrayed in your application and the documentation you provided are accurate. The loan underwriting process not only assesses your creditworthiness and ability to repay a mortgage, Meta shares slide after company projects higher expenses for 2026 10/29/2025 07:02pm • Meta's stock slid in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the tech giant posted strong third-quarter results but warned that its expenses will be significantly higher in 2026 than this year. Like its rivals, Meta Platforms Inc. has been on an artificial intelligence spending spree and said its co 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 Senate vote on nullifying tariffs on Canada demonstrates opposition to Trump's trade policy 10/29/2025 06:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada, just as President Donald Trump is engaged in trade talks in Asia as well as an increasingly bitter trade spat with U.S.'s northern neighbor that is one of its largest economic partners. The 50-46 t Food aid at risk of expiring as effort to fund SNAP benefits fails in Senate 10/29/2025 06:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Republican leaders in Congress said it���s all or nothing on Wednesday as they rejected a Democratic push to carve out food aid funding for more than 40 million Americans who stand to lose it as part of the government shutdown. Democrats have repeatedly voted against reopening t Rozier and Billups will not receive NBA salaries while on leave in gambling cases, AP sources say 10/29/2025 04:21pm • NBA guard Terry Rozier and coach Chauncey Billups will not receive their salaries while on leave for their arrests on federal gambling-related charges, two people with knowledge of the matters told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Rozier had been due to receive the first installment of a $26.6 mil 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 Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently 10/29/2025 01:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It���s a tough time for the job market. Amid wider economic uncertainty, some analysts have said that businesses are at a ���no-hire, no fire��� standstill. That's caused many to limit new work to only a few specific roles, if not pause openings entirely. At the same time, some siz 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 Editorial Roundup: United States 10/29/2025 11:28am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 26 The Washington Post on the slippery slope that is gerrymandering The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected. Virginia is poised to become the second state, after California, where Democ Virginia SNAP substitute to roll out weekly through November 10/29/2025 11:18am • Virginia���s budget surplus will fund a state-level replacement for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program should the federal government shutdown continue into November, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. Dubbed Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance, or VENA, the newly-create Singapore faces pressure to reveal carbon tax concessions to oil giants 10/29/2025 12:14am • SINGAPORE, Singapore (AP) ��� Carbon tax concessions granted to global oil giants may undermine incentives to shift to cleaner energy, environmentalists fear. So conservation groups in Singapore are seeking more transparency over what discounts the city-state of 6 million giving polluters for taxes