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Trump plans aid package for US soybean farmers while seeking trade deal with China 10/05/2025 07:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning a significant aid package to U.S. soybean farmers to help them survive China’s boycott of American beans in response to his trade war even as the president says he is still seeking a soybean deal with Beijing. But farmers are worried that time Ohtani's pitching leads Dodgers to Game 1 win despite 4 strikeouts at the plate 10/04/2025 11:00pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Shohei Ohtani struck out not once, twice, three times but four — four! — straight times and almost snuffed a late Dodgers rally. The Oh-4 nearly cost Los Angeles. Good news for the Dodgers, Ohtani the ace was about as good as he needed to be on the mound — with a little p The Oval Office meeting didn't stop a shutdown, but the Trump 2028 hats and a sombrero set a tone 10/04/2025 12:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership days before a government shutdown, the red hats appeared on the president’s desk. “Trump 2028," they said, situated across from the seated lawmakers, Vice President JD Vance and sever Fears of massive battery fires spark local opposition to energy storage projects 10/04/2025 06:04am • More and more, big arrays of lithium-ion batteries are being hooked up to electrical grids around the U.S. to store power that can be discharged in times of high demand. But as more energy storage is added, residents in some places are pushing back due to fears that the systems will go up in flames, In Tennessee, a US House primary special election draws a crowd 10/04/2025 12:01am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties, a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville. T New Mexico governor signs bills to counter federal cuts, support health care and food assistance 10/03/2025 09:37pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a package of bills Friday aimed at shoring up food assistance, rural health care and public broadcasting in response to recently enacted federal cuts. The new legislation responds to President Donald Trump's big bill as well as fe Lawsuit seeks to stop Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B visas 10/03/2025 06:39pm • SEATTLE (AP) — In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new $100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the plan, saying it has “thrown employers, w Shohei Ohtani set to make postseason pitching debut for Dodgers in unfriendly Philadelphia 10/03/2025 05:57pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is more the Sultan of Squat than a modern day Babe Ruth when the Los Angeles Dodgers star plays in Philadelphia. He’s yet to hit any of his 250 homers in Philly. He’s batting .250 lifetime in Citizens Bank Park with just two extra-base hits and four RBIs over Government funding vote fails again in Senate as hopes fade for quick end to shutdown 10/03/2025 04:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown faded Friday as Democrats refused to budge in a Senate vote and President Donald Trump readied plans to unleash layoffs and cuts across the federal government. On the third day of the shutdown, another Senate vote to advance a Repu Mets overhaul Carlos Mendoza's staff after missing playoffs with massive payroll 10/03/2025 03:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets are moving on from pitching coach Jeremy Hefner as part of a staff overhaul after deciding to keep manager Carlos Mendoza despite missing the playoffs with the most expensive opening-day roster in baseball. Hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez and third b Just before shutdown, most Americans wanted health insurance tax credits extended, KFF poll finds 10/03/2025 01:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Most Americans want Congress to extend tax credits that, if left to expire at the end of the year, could raise health insurance costs for millions of Americans, according to a new poll released Friday from the health care research nonprofit KFF. The survey, which was conducted from FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants' 10/03/2025 01:03pm • President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Democrats are trying to extend tax credits that make health insurance premiums more affordable on marketplac Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year 10/03/2025 09:57am • The September killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a campus speaking event rocked the political landscape in the U.S. and beyond. Kirk, who was known for making provocative statements on gender and race, was the founder of Turning Point USA, a group that mobilized young, Christian conser Trump administration taps Army Reserve and National Guard for temporary immigration judges 10/03/2025 12:04am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration is tapping National Guard and Army Reserve lawyers to be temporary immigration judges after firing dozens of existing judges, the latest step in a broader plan that experts warn could harm immigration courts and the military justice system. Training for th What furloughed federal workers should know about managing their finances during shutdown 10/02/2025 09:00pm • Federal workers checking their finances to see how they'll fare if the government shutdown drags on may find themselves fighting gut-wrenching anxiety. And Kathleen Borgueta, a former federal employee, knows exactly how that feels. She lost her job at the U.S. Agency for International Developm