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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit  —  More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.  —  Officials have reversed more than half …

Mitt Romney's sister-in-law Carrie Elizabeth found dead at 64 on LA suburb street  —  The sister-in-law of former presidential nominee and ex-Utah senator Mitt Romney was found dead on a street in a Los Angeles suburb Friday evening, according to officials and reports.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT  —  The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments …

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 …

How China and the U.S. Are Racing to De-Escalate the Trade War  —  Beijing is eager to save a Trump-Xi summit; Washington wants to stem losses in the stock market  —  President Trump is trying to publicly de-escalate tensions with China to soothe markets while privately keeping up pressure on Beijing …

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.

A Statement from NPR on the Pentagon's Press Policy  —  From NPR Editor in Chief Thomas Evans:  —  NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the press and the objective, fact-based reporting of our journalists.  We will not sign the Administration's restrictive policy …

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings  —  Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.  And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.  —  ∙ Paid

Trump says immigrants are driving violent crime in Illinois, but ICE can't find many who are  —  Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters.  Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.  —  CHICAGO — Three decades …

A Historic Crypto Selloff Erased Over $19 Billion, but Two Accounts Made $160 Million  —  A timely bet raises eyebrows amid record crypto selloff  —  Total liquidations on crypto-derivatives exchanges, daily  —  President Trump's surprise announcement of 100% tariffs against China …

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 …

What now for Israel and Gaza?  —  The end of fighting in Gaza and the return of the remaining 20 live Israeli hostages are cause for joy and celebration.  But there is also grief—grief for those Israelis whose loved ones will return in body bags (if at all), grief for loved ones …

Trump administration to launch $500M drone program ahead of World Cup … “Everybody from the governors to different commissioners of the police in these different cities to the stadium chief security officer say that this is something that they need in order to protect the [World Cup] sites,” Giuliani told POLITICO in an interview.

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.

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 …

Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off - report  —  Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says worker  —  The majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off …

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent  —  There are countless videos on social media showing similar scenes.  One, filmed by a photographer in Hyattsville, Md., shows a man pinned to the ground by two ICE officers.  He pleads in Spanish and English for someone to help him.