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In the news today: A partisan standoff is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years; the White House has released President Donald Trump's plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; and North Korea makes a rare appearance at the United Nations General Assembly. Also, striking nurses in Michigan left a picket line to help those injured in the church shooting. |
Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson speak to members of the media outside the West Wing at the White House in Washington, Monday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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US government on brink of first shutdown in almost seven years
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A partisan standoff over health care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years, with Democrats and Republicans in Congress unable to find agreement even as thousands of federal workers stand to be furloughed or permanently laid off. Read more. |
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- The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. EDT Wednesday if the Senate does not pass a House measure that would extend federal funding for seven weeks while lawmakers finish their work on annual spending bills.
Senate Democrats say they won't vote for it unless Republicans include an extension of expiring health care benefits, among other demands, while President Donald Trump and the Republicans are refusing to negotiate at all, arguing that it is a stripped down "clean" bill that should be noncontroversial.
- Democrats are pushing for an extension to Affordable Care Act tax credits that have boosted health insurance subsidies for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic. The credits, which are designed to expand coverage for low- and middle-income people, are set to expire at the end of the year.
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This is Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza
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The White House has released President Donald Trump's plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The plan stands out from previous ceasefire proposals in that for the first time it tries to outline the key question of how the territory will be ruled after the war. The question now is, will Hamas agree? Read more. |
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported the plan following a meeting with Trump at the White House on Monday.
The proposal would effectively put the territory under international control, deploying an international security force and installing a "Board of Peace" – headed by Trump and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair – to oversee the administration and reconstruction.
- The proposal states, "Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza," no one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return." If reforms are faithfully carried out, "the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood."
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In a rare UN appearance, senior North Korean diplomat insists his country won't give up nukes
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A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. Monday that his country won't give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous international demands to do so. Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong said the weapons were crucial to keeping a "balance of power" with South Korea. Read more. |
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Still, his address was more tempered, especially toward the United States, than many of his country's prior remarks on the world stage. While Kim lambasted unidentified "hegemonic forces" and an "indiscriminate tariff war," there were no direct references to Donald Trump or personal insults, and there was more sternness than over-the-top bellicosity. Kim vowed that "we will never give up nuclear," noting that North Korea's nuclear program is enshrined in its constitution.
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Replica Locomotion No1 passes through Heighington, County Durham. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)
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Britain marks the bicentenary of a world-changing rail journey
Thousands of people on Saturday celebrated the 200th anniversary of the historic British train, George Stephenson's Locomotion 1, the first steam-powered railway engine to run on a public railway. The train made its journey between Shildon and Stockton in northeast England, marking a small but significant milestone that heralded rapid changes in the way Britain, and the world, lived, traded, and traveled. |
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