House will stay out of session next week as Senate works to solve shutdown  —  The House won't return to session next week as Speaker Mike Johnson had previously indicated, according to a notice made during Friday's pro forma session.  The move came after the Senate voted a fourth time Friday …

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after Trump administration says they threaten officers  —  Following a request from the US Department of Justice, Apple has removed ICEBlock and similar apps that allow people to alert others nearby about sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area.

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin … The Treasury Department is considering producing a one-dollar coin featuring President Donald Trump to commemorate the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence next year, a spokesperson confirmed on Friday.

Live Updates: Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Hostages in Gaza  —  The militant group responded to a proposal by President Trump to end the war in Gaza.  —  Here's the latest.  —  Hamas said on Friday night that it had agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza …

Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts  —  Gov. Kathy Hochul had described the cuts, which would have devastated New York's intelligence and counterterrorism operations, as “utterly shocking.”  —  The White House will restore $187 million in cuts …

MAGA's Top “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State.  He Doesn't Live There.  —  This article is a joint production of Slate and the Handbasket.  —  Jack Posobiec is very concerned about voter fraud.  An influential MAGA voice and prominent conspiracy theorist, he's perhaps best known …

Most Trump supporters back ObamaCare subsidies' extension: Survey  —  A new survey has found that a majority of Republicans and Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters back the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits at the center of the government shutdown fight.

RFK Jr. fires NIH vaccine whistleblower Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired a top official with the National Institutes of Health who blew the whistle on internal clashes over vaccine research in the early months of the Trump administration.

Trump administration pauses $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects amid shutdown  —  President Donald Trump and administration officials warned that they planned to target programs favored by Democrats during the government shutdown.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday …

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says  —  It was the fourth strike in the Trump administration's legally disputed campaign targeting suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.  —  The U.S. military killed four men aboard a boat in international waters near Venezuela …

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team  —  Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.  —  United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand …

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals  —  President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use …

BREAKING: Kash Patel's FBI Cuts All Ties to Southern Poverty Law Center  —  FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The FBI has confirmed that it severed all ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left activist group that puts conservatives and Christians on a “hate map” along with Ku Klux Klan chapters.

Supreme Court will consider overturning Hawaii's strict ban on guns on private property  —  The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii.

Transcript: Chris Murphy's Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 3 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is the Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

Cori Bush launches comeback bid for Missouri seat  —  Former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is making a play for her old St. Louis seat in Congress, she announced Friday on X, a year after losing a primary in part due to her opposition to Israel.  “I ran for Congress to change things for regular people,” she said in a video announcement.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.  Here's What Never Arrived.  —  ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration's cuts.

Bari Weiss to be named top editor at CBS News  —  Paramount Skydance will acquire the journalist's publication, the Free Press, which she started after quitting the New York Times in 2020.  —  The newly formed media giant Paramount Skydance will acquire the Free Press, an online publication …

Welcome to the Era of “Kavanaugh Raids”  —  ICE crosses another big, important line. … Welcome to the era of what history will remember someday as the Kavanaugh Raids.  Earlier this week, DHS surrounded and raided an entire apartment building in Chicago and then posted a Gotham …

Suspects Arrested for Fighting at ICE Protest Identified  —  The three people that were arrested for fighting at the ICE protest Thursday evening are being identified.  —  PPB was monitoring the protest during the evening and observed some protest participants engaging in fights.

Dem AG Nominee Jay Jones Fantasized About Shooting Former Virginia GOP Speaker: ‘He Receives Both Bullets’  —  On August 8, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early-morning text messages from a former colleague, Jay Jones, this year's Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general.