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Top Dem Demands Trump 'Get Off The Golf Course' And Help Solve The Shutdown

(Huff Post) After almost three weeks into a government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is wondering what President Donald Trump is doing to end the standoff. Calling out the president for his passive approach during a Monday press briefing, The Hill reported Jeffries said, “Donald Trump definitively needs to get involved. He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the golf course, and actually decide to end this shutdown that he’s created.”

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GOP leaders map out potential Obamacare extension as hard-liners warm to health talks

(Politico) Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are quietly ramping up talks within their senior ranks and with White House officials over how to structure and advance a potential extension of key Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies before the end of the year, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the conversations.

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Social Security Offices Impacted Today Amid Government Shutdown

(Newsweek) Several Social Security offices have had their operations disrupted today amid the larger government shutdown. Offices in California, Texas, New York and other states are updating their hours or capabilities as government employees continue to go without pay. Regardless of services offered at respective offices, an SSA spokesperson told Newsweek, in part, "...Social Security beneficiaries will continue receiving their Social Security, Social Security Disability Insurance, and SSI payments." Experts told Newsweek what Americans can expect in the near future if they need to visit a Social Security office.

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Trump DOJ Prosecutor Sent Journalist Dozens of Texts -- Then Tried to Claim 'Off the Record'

(Mediaite) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan sent Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower dozens of text messages earlier this month to complain about her reporting — and then attempted to claim after the fact that the conversation was off the record. It was most certainly not off the record, and on Monday evening, Bower published screenshots of their texts.

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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump's ballroom

(Washington Post) Demolition crews on Monday began tearing down part of the White House to build President Donald Trump’s long-desired ballroom despite his pledge that construction of the $250 million addition wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building.
 Construction teams were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure, according to a photo shared with The Washington Post and two people who witnessed the activity and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it.


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North Carolina GOP advances congressional map to secure another House seat for Trump

(AP) North Carolina’s legislature formally began redrawing the state’s congressional district map Monday, plainly stating their intent to help Republicans gain another U.S. House seat under President Donald Trump’s push to retain his party’s grip on Congress next year. The state Senate gave initial approval along party lines to new boundaries for two eastern North Carolina districts in a move aimed at thwarting the reelection of Democratic Rep. Don Davis, one of the state’s three Black members of Congress.

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'I see Republicans losing the House': MAGA lawmaker delivers grim warning for party

(Raw Story) A MAGA lawmaker delivered a grim warning for her party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. “I can’t see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the House if Americans are continuing to go paycheck-to-paycheck,” Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Semafor on Monday. “They’ll definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account.” Greene, a MAGA loyalist who has recently criticized the Trump administration and her own party amid the government shutdown, pointed to Americans' main concern right now: the rising cost of living.

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Mike Johnson Exploits the Shutdown To Hide the Epstein Files

(Salon) Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is lying. Yes, I know. Writing that is like writing “cats are furry” or “it’s pumpkin spice season.” But the current purpose of the lie is even more depraved than we usually get from this self-proclaimed beacon of Christian morality. The purpose is silencing the victims of infamous child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged fellow abusers. Worse, it’s all done to protect President Donald Trump, a man who was already found by a civil jury in New York to have sexually abused journalist E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room.

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ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

(Popular Info) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal government contracting data by Popular Information. Records from the Federal Procurement Data System reveal that ICE has increased spending on “small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing” by 700% compared to 2024 levels. New spending in the small arms category from January 20, 2025, the day Trump was inaugurated, through October 18, totaled $71,515,762. Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

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ICE official defends agency's tactics amid fallout from raid on wrong home in Portland, Oregon

(CBS News) In footage shared widely on social media last week, federal immigration agents were seen breaking into Gloria Magaña's home Portland, Oregon, even though the person they were looking for does not live there. The agents forced their way into the home without showing a warrant, Magaña told CBS News. The raid occurred on Oct. 15. Magaña, a native of Mexico, said she got a call from her children, who told her the agents were shouting for someone named Israel, but nobody in their home goes by that name. She said she told her children to lock themselves inside a room.

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Arizona sues Mike Johnson over refusal to swear in Democrat who could sway Epstein vote

20 min ago - Tue 21 Oct 2025 17.49 EDT Arizona’s attorney general is suing House speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September. Grijalva was elected on 23 September in th ... (The Guardian)

Marine Corps artillery mishap part of unusual firing over highway

34 min ago - PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2025, 1:05 PM ET The US Marine Corps is no stranger to firing live ordnance as part of training, but it had been years — more than 70, according to one US official — since Marines had fired artillery over a stretch of the ... (CNN Politics)

Democratic National Committee hikes spending on New Jersey, Virginia races

1 hr ago - October 21, 2025 5:13 AM EDT Updated 11 hours ago Oct 21 (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee pledged an additional $500,000 for get-out-the-vote operations in the New Jersey and Virginia governor's races, as well as judicial races in Pennsy ... (Reuters)

Trump seeks to proceed with $10B lawsuit over WSJ story on Epstein's birthday book

1 hr ago - October 21, 2025, 12:01 PM Lawyers for President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge in Florida to deny a request by the Wall Street Journal and its parent companies, Dow Jones and News Corp, to dismiss a $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the p ... (ABC News)

13 Senate Democrats Vote to Advance Trump Nominee During Shutdown

1 hr ago - Thirteen Senate Democrats voted alongside Republicans Tuesday to instate a conservative judge to the Northern District of Alabama. The Senate voted 66–32 in favor of confirming Harold “Hal” Mooty III as a U.S. district judge. Donald Tr ... (New Republic)

Democrats Emboldened After 'No Kings' Protests As Government Shutdown Drags On

2 hrs ago - Oct 21, 2025, 01:32 PM EDT | Updated 6 minutes ago WASHINGTON ― Congressional Republicans believed that Democrats would cave on government funding after the national “No Kings” protests took place over the weekend, but that doesn’ ... (Huff Post)

Deputy U.S. marshal wounded by ICE agent during immigration operation in Southern California

2 hrs ago - A deputy U.S. marshal was wounded by a ricochet bullet fired by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an operation in South Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. The incident happened when agents carrying out an immigration enforcement oper ... (Los Angeles Times)

Virginia Giuffre raped by 'well-known Prime Minister,' US version of posthumous memoir claims

2 hrs ago - Updated Oct 21, 2025, 12:39 PM ET PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2025, 10:10 AM ET London - Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, wrote in her posthumous memoir that she was brutally beaten and raped b ... (CNN World)

Trump's Coca-Cola Demand Hit With a Reality Check

2 hrs ago - Published Oct. 21 2025 1:01PM EDT President Donald Trump may have launched a one-man nostalgia party over the nation’s favorite beverage but the sad truth is there might actually just not be enough of the good Coke to go around. Amid the presid ... (Daily Beast)

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

3 hrs ago - Oct. 21, 2025 Updated 2:39 p.m. ET President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlemen ... (New York Times)

'No plans' for Trump-Putin meeting 'in the immediate future' despite president's claims of Hungary summit: White House

3 hrs ago - The White House is walking back President Donald Trump’s plan for talks on ending the four-year-old Russian war against Ukraine just days after he claimed he would meet with Vladimir Putin in Budapest next month. A White House official told The ... (Independent)

Judge orders Department of Defense to restore books removed from schools over 'wokeness'

4 hrs ago - Oct. 21, 2025, 12:31 p.m. ET A federal judge in Virginia has ordered the Pentagon to restore books and curriculum that were removed from its schools following efforts by the Trump administration to weed out perceived “wokeness” from the mil ... (USA Today)

ICE would need more money to expand use of bodycams in Chicago crackdown, official says

4 hrs ago - Oct. 21, 2025, 10:03 AM EDT CHICAGO — Many federal officers assigned to immigration enforcement in the Chicago area have body cameras but Congress would have to allocate more funds to expand their use, officials testified Monday at a hearing abo ... (NBC News/AP)

Fox News host Laura Ingraham joins business venture with Donald Trump Jr

5 hrs ago - Fox News host Laura Ingraham is joining a business venture that includes Donald Trump Jr – after she repeatedly criticized the business dealings of another president’s son: Hunter Biden. Ingraham, Trump Jr and Chamath Palihapitiya, a busine ... (The Guardian)

Trump's nomination of Paul Ingrassia loses Republican support following racist text messages

5 hrs ago - Donald Trump’s nomination of a conservative attorney and commentator to oversee federal whistleblower protections appeared to be collapsing after his racist text messages surfaced this week and the Republican Senate leader suggested the White Ho ... (The Guardian)

Some VA therapists and patients say their treatment sessions are being limited, raising alarm

5 hrs ago - PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2025, 6:00 AM ET An edge comes to Michael’s voice when he speaks about his time serving in Afghanistan and his struggles living with post-traumatic stress disorder. A hardened Marine veteran, Michael — who asked to use th ... (CNN Politics)

Exclusive: Dems look to roll back drug pricing exemption

6 hrs ago - 6h Senate Democrats are launching an effort to repeal a portion of Republicans' budget law that exempts certain "orphan drugs" from Medicare price negotiations, citing estimates that the cost of the carve-out has ballooned. Why it matters: The measur ... (msn/Axios)

Visiting Israel, Vance says Gaza's fragile ceasefire is going better than expected

6 hrs ago - By MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY Updated 10:35 AM CDT, October 21, 2025 Leer en español KIRYAT GAT, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday visited a newly opened center in Israel for civilian and military cooperation that ... (AP)

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to murder Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

7 hrs ago - Updated on: October 21, 2025 / 8:52 AM EDT A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Court documents obtained by CBS News said Christopher Moynihan was arrested Sunday ... (CBS News)

Ecuador releases survivor of US strike on 'drug sub' in Caribbean

7 hrs ago - Ecuador has released the survivor of a US strike on a submarine alleged to have been smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. ... AP also reported that it had seen a document from the Ecuadorean government which outlined that "there is no evidence or indica ... (BBC)

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