Semafor • Oct 8, 2025
Waters nudges banks to help federal workers
The California Democrat asked bank trade associations to work with their members to provide accommodations for customers who struggle to pay off loans in time.
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Current Affairs • Oct 8, 2025
The Community College Is One of America’s Greatest Achievements—And It Needs Our Help
My journey to becoming a fully-fledged academic and emergency medicine physician included more than twelve years of post-secondary education at five different institutions. With each step I accrued more knowledge, earned another degree or attained a professional certification. But it was my two years at a community college in Southern California that I rank as perhaps the most important educational experience of my life.
Semafor • Oct 8, 2025
EU unveils €1B AI plan to challenge US and China
The European Commission announced a two-pronged strategy to drive local AI research and implement new technologies across public and private sectors.
Semafor • Oct 7, 2025
Could a bipartisan Senate gang stop the shutdown?
Senators once locked arms across the aisle on infrastructure, immigration, and more. Some in the chamber think that’s the way out of the current crisis.
Semafor • Oct 7, 2025
Trump eyes deeper energy project cuts as shutdown drags on
A so-called ‘kill list’ shared with Semafor details billions of dollars in additional potential cuts to some of the country’s biggest clean energy projects.
Semafor • Oct 7, 2025
Trump and Canadian PM Mark Carney meet for trade talks
Canada is the only G7 country not to have reached a trade deal with the US this year.
Semafor • Oct 7, 2025
Europe struggles to help Ukraine rebuild its battered energy system
Mutual attacks by Ukraine and Russia on each other’s electricity and fossil fuel networks have increased over the past week.
Mother Jones • Oct 7, 2025
Outcry as Trump Plots the Plunder of US Forests: “You Can Almost Hear the Chainsaws”
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1999, Bill Clinton ascended one of the highest summits in Virginia to announce that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads, drilling, and other disturbances within America’s most […]
Semafor • Oct 7, 2025
US govt shutdown enters seventh day with no movement
Senate GOP leaders are considering cancelling next week’s recess if the shutdown continues.
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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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