More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated  —  Hundreds of staff fired from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday have been reinstated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years.  Moments after being released, ICE took him  —  On the morning of Oct. 3, 2025, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam walked out of Huntingdon State Correctional Institution, the Pennsylvania prison that had confined him for more than four decades.

Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B … To scrounge up enough money to pay the troops, the Pentagon is tapping into its research and development accounts to use funding Congress made available for two years, according to an OMB official.

Purge, Merge, and Surge  —  As Trump deploys a combination of ICE, National Guard troops and other paramilitary forces to multiple American cities, he is implementing a three-step plan.  The plan involves different parts of the national security state, immigration enforcement, and the military:

Maga figures back Bukele's call for Trump to crack down on US judges  —  Experts say El Salvador president's intervention comes as Trump is employing tactics used by autocrats abroad  —  Donald Trump is not known for taking advice, especially from foreign leaders who often seek to flatter and compliment the US president.

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?  —  Border agents have become a key force in Trump's migrant crackdown - operating far from their traditional rural range  —  Border patrol officers have become ubiquitous footsoldiers in Donald Trump's mass deportation plan …

Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act  —  The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance indicated in an interview …

Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help  —  Trump administration has supported Kyiv's operations since summer in co-ordinated push to weaken Moscow  —  Christopher Miller in Kyiv, Amy Mackinnon in Washington and Max Seddon in Riga  —  The US has for months been helping Ukraine mount …

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists  —  Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries  —  Where Donald Trump leads, Europe's nationalists and far right follow.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says  —  The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone …

Johnson says he had ‘thoughtful’ conversation with MTG about bucking Republicans on healthcare … “Marjorie does not serve on those committees so I offered to have her come in the room and be a part of that discussion if indeed she wants to do that,” he said.

Is Trump “doing what he promised”?  |  Weekly roundup for October 12, 2025  —  I don't normally devote the lead slot in this weekly roundup just to disagreeing with someone's analysis, but I'm going to make an exception this week.  U.S. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently shared …

Smithsonian museums and National Zoo close temporarily as government shutdown drags on  —  The Smithsonian Institution drew on funds from the prior year to stay open for 11 days after the shutdown began on Oct. 1.  —  WASHINGTON — The pandas at the National Zoo will find themselves without …

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people  —  Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’  —  A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent …

“It feels terrible.”  Federal worker's family tightens their belts as shutdown drags on  —  In a way, Stephanie Rogers started preparing for the current moment months ago, when she and her two daughters moved in with her mother about half an hour south of Denver.  High prices for everything was certainly one reason.

Appeals court temporarily blocks deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago  —  A federal appeals court Saturday blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area amid ongoing protests at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities that the Trump administration has vowed to crack down on.