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Chancellor of th Trump's big bill is prompting urgent action in some Democratic states, but not in Republican ones 09/29/2025 10:02am • New Mexico lawmakers are to open a special session Wednesday to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care ��� actions the Democratic governor contends are needed to ���minimize the damage from President Trump���s disastrous bill��� cutting federal taxes and spending. The special sessi France's court of auditors reports modest economic impact from 2024 Paris Olympics 09/29/2025 09:18am • PARIS (AP) ��� Hosting the 2024 Paris Olympics generated only moderate revenues for France, with an almost negligible impact on growth, while total public expenditure exceeded six billion euros ($7 billion), the country���s court of auditors reported on Monday. Public spending linked to the Olympics 7 Best Energy ETFs to Buy Now 09/28/2025 08:00pm • A decades-long consolidation spree by the energy sector's "supermajors," also known as Big Oil, was designed with shareholder returns in mind. The strategic goal of these deals was to consolidate assets, streamline operations and maximize free cash flow from what are ultimately finite reserves. Exec Shutdown standoff deepens ahead of crucial meeting at the White House 09/28/2025 01:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Majority Leader John Thune are digging in ahead of this week's deadline to keep the government open, showing little evidence of budging even as both sides have agreed to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday UK's Starmer hopes a vision of 'renewal' can silence doubts about his leadership 09/28/2025 11:59am • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) ��� Keir Starmer never had much of a political honeymoon. Now some members of his political party are considering divorce. Little more than a year after winning power in a landslide, Britain���s prime minister is fighting to keep the support of his party, and to fend off Nige Trump's shutdown blame game: Why he says Democrats are at fault 09/28/2025 07:45am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump has had one refrain in recent days when asked about the looming government shutdown. Will there be a shutdown? Yes, Trump says, ���because the Democrats are crazed.��� Why is the White House pursuing mass firings, not just furloughs, of federal workers? Tru Trump to meet Monday with top four congressional leaders as government shutdown risk looms 09/27/2025 08:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown. The meeting involving House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune as well As Democrats prepare for a possible federal shutdown, their endgame is uncertain 09/27/2025 08:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senate Democrats who have struggled for months to counter President Donald Trump have settled on a bold, one-step strategy if they do not get significant concessions on health care before government funding runs out Wednesday: voting to shut down the government. The plan is hear Stella Jean's Milan runway features artisans from Bhutan and an appeal to preserve craftsmanship 09/27/2025 06:23pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean returned to the Milan runway on Saturday after a three-year absence with a collection produced with artisans in Bhutan and an appeal for more political support for the withering class of artisans that gives luxury fashion its edge. ���I said I woul Activists target low-cost airline Avelo for immigrant detention flights out of BWI 09/27/2025 09:04am • The Moore administration is facing increasing pressure from activists and the head of the Legislative Latino Caucus to boot a discount airline from Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport because it has been flying immigrants targeted for deportation to a detention facility in L Trump finds new trade targets -- pharmaceuticals, kitchen cabinets and heavy trucks 09/27/2025 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Naturepedic, a mattress and furniture company based outside Cleveland, has been planning to introduce an upscale upholstered headboard late this year or early in 2026. But President Donald Trump has thrown those plans into disarray. On Thursday night, the president announced on s How does June Squibb do it at age 95? 'I just gird my loins and go' 09/26/2025 11:12pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� There are 70-year-olds who want to be like June Squibb when they grow up. Squibb, 95, wasn���t the lead of a movie until she was 94. Now, a year after she turned action star in ���Thelma,��� Squibb is again the leading lady and face on the poster again, for ���Eleanor the Great,��� Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Trump is marching the country into a government shutdown 09/26/2025 09:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are ���marching the country��� into a government shutdown over their refusal to meet with Democrats and strike a deal to save health care funding from cuts. Jeffries told the Associated P