Semafor • Oct 14, 2025
US govt shutdown could be one of nation’s longest
The Senate is back today for Day 14 of the current shutdown.
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Semafor • Oct 13, 2025
World Bank urges Nigeria to end import bans as poverty rises
The bank estimated that around 60% of Nigerians are living in poverty in 2025 compared to 40% six years ago.
Semafor • Oct 13, 2025
Trump considers sending long-range missiles to Ukraine
The move marks a significant warming of ties since Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Oval Office spat in February.
Lever News • Oct 11, 2025
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Take That, Price-Fixing Robot
Regulators crack the monopoly code, the DOD goes DIY, homeownership gets sweeter, and a health care crisis is healed.
Lever News • Oct 10, 2025
The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
Semafor • Oct 10, 2025
New $70M women’s health fund launches in response to global aid cuts
The Women’s Health Co-Lab aims to support areas such as maternal health, which have been hardest hit by the Trump administration's overhaul of USAID.
Mother Jones • Oct 10, 2025
How a New Firm With DHS Ties Won a $915 Million Contract to Help Immigrants “Self-Deport”
For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. Earlier this year, the […]
Mother Jones • Oct 10, 2025
Massive DHS “Self-Deportation” Contract Challenged as Secretive and “Unlawful”
For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. Earlier this year, the […]
Semafor • Oct 10, 2025
Senate GOP mulls offering vote to Democrats in shutdown standoff
The proposal would allow for a vote on extending health care subsidies, a sticking point in shutdown talks.
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
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Report: Education Department’s “Efficiency” Layoffs Cost At Least $28 Million
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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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