Mike Johnson slams Obamacare funds as a ‘boondoggle’ as shutdown drags on  —  Johnson also addressed conservative calls to repeal Obamacare, whose enhanced tax credits form the main dispute between the two parties that led to the funding impasse.  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson …

After hostages and prisoners are freed, complex issues remain for Israel-Hamas ceasefire  —  Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  Israel and Hamas moved ahead on a key first step of the tenuous Gaza ceasefire agreement …

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver  —  Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester.  Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.  —  Late on Oct. 5, a Portland ambulance crew informed dispatchers …

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: 'It's not fair...I'm a resident'  —  Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.  —  The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.

North Carolina GOP announce plans to vote on new House map amid nationwide redistricting battle  —  Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  North Carolina Republican legislative leaders announced plans Monday to vote next week …

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks  —  Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk's private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having issues selling the electric pickup truck.  —  Cybertruck turned out to be Tesla's first real commercial flop.

Airports say they won't air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints  —  Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.  —  Airports in more than a half-dozen U.S. markets …

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump's Power to Fire Officials  —  As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president's power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.  —  The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December …

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs  — US companies, consumers bear brunt of US tariffs  — Some foreign sellers are raising prices  — Further price hikes likely in coming months  —  U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs …

Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline  —  The Washington Post joined the New York Times, CNN and the Atlantic in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.  —  Journalists working at The Washington Post, the New York Times and other major news publications …

Exclusive: Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney's office  —  Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over …

Ald.  Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident  —  Ald.  Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month.

Are YOU Antifa?  —  Plus: Hostage releases and prisoner swaps.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Taking Antifa Seriously  —  Andrew talked about Antifa and No Kings this morning, but I want to dig in a little more to draw your attention to three Antifa-related actions Republicans have taken over the last four weeks.

Trump Allies Sold Sponsorships to What Appeared to Be a Treasury Event.  It Wasn't.  —  Treasury says it didn't approve marketing pitch for private Oct. 21 event about AI that is to be headlined by Scott Bessent  —  An investment fund run by prominent Trump supporters tried to sell sponsorships …

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers  —  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.  —  JPL is NASA's only federally funded research and development center.

183. The Missing Defenses of the Court's Behavior  —  Rather than knocking down straw men or attacking their critics, the justices (and their defenders) would do well to explain why the sharpest criticisms of the Court's recent behavior are *wrong.  Welcome back to “One First,” …

How Trump Is Making China Great  —  Six months ago Donald Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs — huge tariffs imposed on just about every nation.  As everyone noted, this announcement suddenly brought average tariffs back to 1934 levels.  Less widely noted was the fact that the long decline …

Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer  —  The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar.  Both Republicans struggled.  —  It's been nearly a month since the public …

The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump  —  Trump is mad that he didn't win.  But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling.  —  Pocket  —  Donald Trump's narcissism is truly a force of nature …

Rove: Trump National Guard deployments ‘going to end up being a loser’  —  GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted Saturday that deploying National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, over the objections of their respective states' governors, will ultimately be a losing issue for President Trump.

Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government  —  Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration's latest layoffs.  —  Just now  —  A historic wave of retirements and other departures …

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: ‘We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today’  —  A federal judge's temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas.  Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.