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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion defamation ruling in Sandy Hook shooting

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🔥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: alex jones,infowars,Sandy Hook,Supreme Court ✅ Main takeaway: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and maintained a $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax orchestrated by crisis actors. The Infowars host said the judge erred in holding him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial based on allegations made by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first-graders and…

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Spokesman says US is ‘heading towards’ a prolonged lockdown with growing ripple effects

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💥 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,Government Shutdown,Mike Johnson 💡 Key idea: House Speaker Mike Johnson said today that the United States is “heading toward one of the longest lockdowns” in history. The stern warning comes on the 13th day of the shutdown as the effects begin to spread across the country, with federal workers facing their first week without pay. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports. Jeff Bennett: The United States is headed toward one of the longest lockdowns in history, the Speaker of the House of Representatives said today.…

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Uncertainty about the economy and tariffs is forcing many retailers to be cautious about holiday hiring

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🚀 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: christmas,Donald Trump news,jobs,shopping,tariffs ✅ Main takeaway: NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty about the economy and tariffs are forcing retailers to scale back or delay plans to hire seasonal workers who pack orders at distribution centers, serve shoppers in stores and build holiday displays during the most important selling season of the year. Dan Casterella, CEO of American Christmas LLC, which creates elaborate holiday installations for commercial properties such as New York's Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall, said it plans to hire 220 temporary workers and…

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LISTEN LIVE: SCOTUS hears the issue of redistricting that could reduce the representation of Black voters

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✨ Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: 14th Amendment,African Americans,congress,Louisiana,Re-districting,Supreme Court ✅ Main takeaway: WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican attack on a key provision of the Voting Rights Act designed to protect racial minorities reaches the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after justices struck down another pillar of the 60-year-old law. The hearing is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, October 15 at 10 a.m. ET. Watch in the player above. In arguments Wednesday, lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump administration will try to convince the justices to erase the state's majority-Black…

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The North Carolina Republican Party announced plans to vote on a new House map amid a nationwide redistricting battle

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✨ Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Congressional Midterms,North Carolina,Re-districting,Vote 2026 📌 Key idea: RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina announced Monday plans to vote next week on redrawing the state's U.S. House district map, with the potential goal of securing another GOP seat within the already right-leaning boundaries. The move comes amid an emerging mid-decade battle at the national level between Republicans and Democrats seeking an advantage in the way U.S. House districts are drawn in several states for the 2026 session. Read more: The battle to redraw…

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WATCH: Johnson responds to critics on why he won’t call House back for shutdown negotiations

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen. Watch Johnson speak in the player above. Standing alone at the Capitol on the 13th day of the shutdown, the speaker said he was unaware of the details of the thousands of federal workers being fired by the Trump administration. It’s a highly unusual mass layoff widely seen as way to seize on the shutdown to reduce the scope of government. Vice President JD…

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Some Indigenous Peoples Day events strike conciliatory tone as Trump focuses on Columbus

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From Seattle to Baltimore, many Americans were celebrating Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day, determined to see it as a triumph of perseverance over centuries marked by trauma. Tribal nations and communities gathered at powwows, markets and musical performances among other joyful events to honor their culture and their history. Some states and cities have for decades now made the second Monday in October about honoring Native Americans alongside the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, for whom the federal holiday was declared in 1937. And President Joe Biden signed a declaration recognizing both days. President Donald Trump, keeping a vow he made…

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Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in areas from special education to civil rights enforcement and after-school programs. The Trump administration started laying off 466 Education Department staffers on Friday amid mass firings across the government meant to pressure Democratic lawmakers over the federal shutdown. The layoffs would cut the agency’s workforce by nearly a fifth and leave it reduced by more than half itssize when President Donald Trump took…

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WATCH: Trump meets with Egypt’s el-Sisi ahead of summit on Gaza ceasefire

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SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived in Egypt on Monday for a global summit on Gaza’s future as he tries to advance peace in the Middle East after visiting Israel to celebrate a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Hamas. The whirlwind trip, which included a speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem earlier in the day, comes at a fragile moment of hope for ending two years of war between Israel and Hamas. “Everybody said it’s not possible to do. And it’s going to happen. And it is happening before your very eyes,” Trump said alongside Egyptian President Abdel…

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WATCH: Trump celebrates hostage release, calls for Netanyahu pardon in speech to Israeli parliament

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JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump told Israeli lawmakers on Monday that their country had no more to achieve on the battlefield and must work toward peace in the Middle East after two years of war against Hamas and skirmishes with Hezbollah and Iran. LIVE UPDATES: Hamas frees living hostages, Israel releases prisoners as Trump visits Middle East Although the U.S.-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas remains fragile, Trump is determined to seize an opportunity to chase an elusive regional harmony. “Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change,” he declared to the…

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