A US judge ordered President Donald Trump on Wednesday to pause the planned mass layoffs of federal workers during the government shutdown after the White House said it expected to fire 10,000 workers.

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

The Knesset, the Israeli parliament, greeted Trump with a standing ovation when he spoke there. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi gave Trump his country’s highest civilian honor later in the day. “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East,” Trump said in his remarks.

House Speaker Mike Johnson blames Democratic obstruction for the ongoing government shutdown, now in its 13th day since Oct. 1.

The Supreme Court has denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s bold bid to be release from prison. The accomplice of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is serving 20 years for facilitating his crimes. Maxwell had argued that her conviction broke a deal Epstein stuck with prosecutors to not charge her.

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Today, US economy reporter Julia Fanzeres looks at the shutdown’s impact on a key economic report. Email our editors here. We’re two weeks into the government shutdown — with no end in sight — and the impact on a key economic report may linger beyond any resolution of the standoff in Congress.

Nearly 1 in 5 voters overall said they or someone close to them would not back a woman candidate for the White House, according to a report, citing a new poll

During a time of surging political polarization, Bill McBride, the outgoing executive director, gave an insider's perspective on how the National Governors Association solves problems.

We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system. And no one is being spared. Even countries that thought they were immune from wholesale assaults on democracy now understand that we’re all part of one struggle.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to pull assistance for Argentina — led by a political kindred spirit whose philosophy aligns with that of the Republican administration— if the nation’s internal politics don’t go the United States’ way in its upcoming elections.