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The Trump administration has canceled $810 million in congressionally approved spending through a "pocket rescission," a rarely used budget maneuver that Congress and the GAO say exceeds presidential authority. About $567 million of the cuts hit HHS programs supporting refugees and non-citizens, with the rest affecting migrant student education, international education programs, and diversity initiatives. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins condemned the move as an attempt by the Office of Management and Budget "to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse," and says she is now exploring legislation to ban pocket rescissions in the next spending bill.

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Photo: Sen. Susan Collins, official U.S. Senate photo, public domain. #breakingnews

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is facing backlash from fellow conservatives over a new campaign ad promoting her welfare-to-work proposal. The ad features a fictional character named "Brad," a young white man shown playing video games and avoiding work while collecting benefits, to argue for requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to work, train, or volunteer. Critics including The Federalist's Sean Davis and commentator Matt Walsh say the ad is dishonest and could alienate young white male voters, noting that women and Black Americans are statistically more likely to receive welfare than the demographic depicted. Sanders has defended the underlying policy as "great," even as critics say the ad itself undermines it.

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Photo: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem photo, public domain. #breakingnews

A migrant caravan of several hundred people, made up mostly of Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Ecuadoreans and Haitians, departed San Pedro Sula, Honduras on September 20th and is moving north through Mexico toward the U.S. border. The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning in response, stating the border has remained closed and secured for the last 16 months and that anyone attempting to illegally enter the United States will be apprehended, prosecuted, and removed. U.S. Border Patrol says it is closely coordinating with international partners to monitor the caravan's movement.

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Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Southwest Border Arizona fence line, by Donna Burton/CBP, public domain (file photo of the border, not the caravan itself). #breakingnews

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NYPD has released bodycam footage of the fatal Times Square shooting of Pamela Cisneros, 49, who stabbed Bank of America vice president Erin Piacenti and a 68-year-old man on August 31st. The footage shows officers spending roughly four minutes trying to talk Cisneros into dropping her knives before she advanced on them; a Taser deployment failed to stop her, and two officers opened fire. Piacenti, a 32-year-old New Jersey mother, died from her injuries; the second victim survived. Cisneros was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.

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Photo: Times Square police substation, by Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0 (file photo of the area, not the incident itself). #breakingnews

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A Delta Air Lines flight from Barcelona to Boston was diverted to Porto, Portugal on September 27th after smoke was detected in the cabin. The Airbus A330-300 was carrying 283 passengers and 13 crew members when the diversion occurred. Portugal's civil protection service said 14 passengers required medical attention, with four hospitalized for smoke inhalation described as lightly affected. Delta attributed the incident to a reported mechanical issue and said the flight landed safely.

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Photo: Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300, by Masakatsu Ukon, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file photo, not the specific aircraft involved). #breakingnews

New York Times Games engineering director Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of the Dublin Sports Grounds in Dublin, California. His parents-in-law, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, were arrested on suspicion of murder within minutes, after witnesses helped officers detain them at the scene. McKinsey had worked at the Times since January 2023. Investigators have not yet disclosed a possible motive, but say there is no ongoing threat to the public.

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Photo: The New York Times Building, Manhattan, by Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 (headquarters building, not the crime scene). #breakingnews

The Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed the House 417-3 and would require data-center operators to cover the utility rate hikes they cause rather than passing costs to consumers, hit a wall in the Senate this week. Majority Leader John Thune scheduled a test vote to pressure Democrats, framing it as a boost for vulnerable Ohio Sen. Jon Husted ahead of the midterms. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer dismissed the bill as "a fraud," arguing Democrats' own version has stronger, mandatory protections, and is urging colleagues to block it.

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Photo: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, official U.S. Senate photo by Jeff McEvoy, public domain. #breakingnews

House Republicans are summoning ActBlue attorney Ronald Machen for a closed-door interview before October 9th, citing contradictions in his prior statements about the platform's donor-verification practices. The probe, led by Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan alongside House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil and Oversight Chairman James Comer, follows a 2024 internal review that found a "substantial risk" some ActBlue-processed donations came from foreign nationals. ActBlue's CEO previously invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned by the same committees earlier this year.

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SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on Flight 14, launching Monday morning from Starbase, Texas and successfully deploying a batch of Starlink V3 satellites. The Super Heavy booster and upper stage both executed controlled maneuvers, with Starship completing a planned splashdown in the North Pacific Ocean after roughly an hour in flight. SpaceX called the mission a full success, marking a major milestone toward the vehicle's eventual use for deep-space and lunar missions.

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NASCAR driver Corey Heim jumped and punched at Martinsville hot dog stand after race

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series winner Corey Heim was jumped and punched multiple times by members of Chad Bryant Racing's team at Martinsville's famous hot dog stand, following a late model race where Heim went airborne over rival driver Treyten Lapcevich's hood in a wild wreck. Video showed at least three people throwing punches at Heim as he tried to get away; police and security escorted him back to his team's hauler. The race itself was won by Caden Kvapil, with Heim finishing second and Lapcevich third.

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Photo: Corey Heim testing at Rockingham Speedway, 2025, by Monday Morning Racer, CC BY 3.0 #breakingnews

King Charles, Prince William 'furious' after Princess Diana's brother's new book

Charles Spencer's new memoir, "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister," has reportedly left King Charles III and Prince William furious, reopening old wounds from Diana's 1997 death. Spencer writes that he clashed with then-Prince Charles over plans for William and Harry to walk behind their mother's coffin, and claims Charles reacted to her death by saying he'd "sounded giddily elated - like a lottery winner" and that they'd "forget her soon enough." Buckingham Palace responded that grief can "cloud reason" over the years, while Spencer has stood by his account.

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Photo: Prince William, Prince of Wales, at Trooping the Colour 2023, by Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0 #breakingnews

AOC's Cornell warmup act leads crowd in 'from the river to the sea' chant

Cornell University's Young Democratic Socialists of America hosted a town hall for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Ithaca, New York, where the group's leaders led roughly 2,000 attendees in chanting "from the river to the sea" after declaring "long live the student intifada." Ocasio-Cortez made no apologies when she took the stage afterward, instead accusing Cornell of censorship. The phrase has been condemned as antisemitic by a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Photo: Official portrait of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. House Office of Photography (public domain) #breakingnews

Democrats blame RFK Jr. for food safety lapses; experts say it's more complicated

Democrats are pointing to a record cyclospora outbreak this summer and a string of subsequent food recalls as evidence that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has mishandled food safety. Food safety specialists push back on that framing, noting that outbreaks and recalls involve multiple federal and state agencies as well as manufacturers and distributors, making it an oversimplification to pin the blame solely on Kennedy's leadership.

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Photo: Official HHS portrait of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (public domain) #breakingnews

Supreme Court's 'long conference' to sort through thousands of petitions before new term

The Supreme Court holds its closed-door "long conference" the week before each new term begins, where justices work through thousands of petitions that piled up during the summer recess since June 30. This year's stack includes disputes touching on free speech and even lobster-fishing surveillance, among many others. Most petitions will be turned down, but some may be relisted for further discussion or granted oral argument during the 2026 term; 25 cases have already been accepted for argument, with dozens more expected.

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Photo: U.S. Supreme Court building, USDA photo by Ken Hammond (public domain) #breakingnews

Sen. Kennedy: no living politician should have a building named after them

As President Trump pushes to rename the Kennedy Center and other federal buildings, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says there should be a rule against naming buildings after politicians while they're still alive. "I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive," Kennedy said. Trump has tried to add his name to the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace building, and has floated renaming Penn Station and Dulles Airport after himself.

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Photo: Official U.S. Senate portrait of Sen. John Kennedy, by the U.S. Senate Photographic Studio (public domain) #breakingnews

Trump's terrorism designation strategy is reshaping the fight against cartels

The Trump administration's move to designate major drug cartels and criminal gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations has opened the door to prosecuting them under terrorism statutes and authorizing military action against trafficking networks. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has faced terrorism charges under the strategy, with at least two dozen prosecutions ending in convictions, and the approach has also been tied to military operations including the January capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and strikes on drug-smuggling boats.

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Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell returns with 28,000 pounds of seized cocaine, by Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrea Anderson (public domain) #breakingnews

Twelve teens wounded in shootout at Georgia birthday party, sheriff says

Twelve teenagers were shot early Sunday when two groups exchanged gunfire at Carolyn Crayton Park in Macon, Georgia, according to Bibb County Sheriff David Davis. A group celebrating an 18th birthday had moved to the park after being asked to leave a rented party venue; a second group arrived, a confrontation broke out, and both sides began firing. Surveillance video showed the gunfire lasting about 30 seconds as people fled. No arrests have been made, but investigators say they have identified several persons of interest.

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Photo: Generic police vehicle with emergency lights, by Scott Davidson, CC BY 2.0 #breakingnews

Pro wrestling star Benjamin 'Pac' Satterley dead at 40, one day after wrestling in AEW pay-per-view

All Elite Wrestling announced Sunday that Benjamin Satterley, who wrestled as Pac (and formerly as Adrian Neville in WWE), has died at 40. He had competed the night before at AEW's All Out pay-per-view in Chicago, challenging Andrade El Idolo for the AEW National Championship. The England-born wrestler began his career in 2004 and became known worldwide for his high-flying in-ring style. A cause of death has not been announced.

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Photo: Adrian Neville (Pac) as NXT Champion, by Miguel Discart, CC BY-SA 2.0 #breakingnews

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Top 25 sites that feel illegal to know (Part 2)

1. shodan.io — A search engine that indexes publicly exposed internet-connected devices
2. crt.sh — Reveals every SSL certificate ever issued for a domain, exposing hidden subdomains
3. viewdns.info — Reverse-looks-up DNS records, IP history, and hosting info for any domain
4. exploit-db.com — A public archive of documented software vulnerabilities, for defenders and researchers
5. radar.cloudflare.com — Live global internet traffic and outage data most people never see
6. wigle.net — A crowd-sourced map of Wi-Fi networks and their locations worldwide
7. osintframework.com — A directory of hundreds of open-source intelligence tools in one place
8. archive.org/web — The Wayback Machine's advanced search can resurrect long-deleted webpages
9. grep.app — Full-text search across the code of millions of public GitHub repositories
10. censys.io — Maps and searches every publicly reachable server and device on the internet
11. namechk.com — Checks if a username is available across hundreds of platforms at once
12. hunter.io — Finds the email address format a company uses from just its domain
13. voidtools.com — A free tool that indexes and searches an entire Windows drive instantly
14. thispersondoesnotexist.com — Generates a photorealistic human face that has never existed
15. pastebin.com — A public text-dump site often used to share (and sometimes leak) raw data
16. shellcheck.net — Instantly finds bugs and security issues in shell scripts, free
17. ipleak.net — Shows exactly what your VPN or browser is leaking about your real identity
18. bgp.he.net — Maps the raw routing infrastructure that makes the entire internet work
19. radio.garden — Tunes into thousands of live radio stations from anywhere on Earth
20. haveibeenpwned.com/passwor... — Checks if a specific password has ever appeared in a known breach
21. torproject.org — The official, legal software for anonymous, encrypted browsing
22. downforeveryoneorjustme.co... — Instantly tells you if a site is actually down or it's just you
23. flightradar24.com — Tracks nearly every plane in the sky, live, anywhere in the world
24. marinetraffic.com — Tracks live ship positions across the globe's oceans
25. spyonweb.com — Reveals what other websites share the same owner via tracking IDs

Photo: "Binary code" by Hack Frigyes, CC BY-SA 3.0 #websites

Top 25 sites that feel illegal to know

1. archive.org — The Wayback Machine — a free archive of nearly the entire internet's history
2. unpaywall.org — Legally finds free, open-access versions of paywalled research papers
3. wolframalpha.com — A computational engine that solves and explains complex math and science
4. teachyourselfcs.com — A free, curated computer science curriculum used by self-taught engineers
5. explainshell.com — Breaks down any confusing terminal command, flag by flag
6. regex101.com — Tests and explains regular expressions in plain English, live
7. builtwith.com — Reveals the entire tech stack behind any website
8. haveibeenpwned.com — Checks if your email or password has been exposed in a data breach
9. archive.ph — Takes a permanent, uneditable snapshot of any webpage
10. openculture.com — Thousands of free courses, ebooks, and films from top universities
11. gutenberg.org — Over 70,000 free public-domain ebooks, no signup required
12. flightradar24.com — Tracks nearly every commercial flight in the world, live, for free
13. marinetraffic.com — Tracks live ship positions across the globe's oceans
14. shodan.io — A search engine for publicly exposed internet-connected devices
15. virustotal.com — Scans any file or link against dozens of antivirus engines at once
16. photopea.com — A full Photoshop-like image editor that runs free in your browser
17. remove.bg — Removes the background from any photo in one click, for free
18. ted.com — Thousands of free expert talks on nearly every subject
19. edx.org — Free courses from Harvard, MIT, and other top universities
20. zamzar.com — Converts almost any file format to another, free, online
21. thisiswhyimbroke.com — A curated list of oddly specific, wonderful things you can actually buy
22. randomstreetview.com — Drops you into a random Google Street View location anywhere on Earth
23. 10minutemail.com — A free disposable email address that self-destructs in 10 minutes
24. tineye.com — Reverse image search to find where a picture came from online
25. downdetector.com — Shows in real time whether a website or app is down for everyone #websites

Attorney for lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy mistrial pushes back on criticism

A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case earlier this month after one juror, Michael Desronvil, held out for a conviction while the other eleven were prepared to find Clancy not criminally responsible. Desronvil's attorney, Edward Paltzik, says his client had "zero doubt" and a "mountain of evidence" supporting his position, disputing other jurors' claims that he failed to explain his reasoning during deliberations. Clancy's defense team has since asked the judge to dismiss the case, citing double jeopardy.

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Photo: Generic courtroom gavel, by Joe Gratz, CC0 public domain #breakingnews

'Home Improvement' star says Patricia Richardson got 'tired' of fighting for the sitcom

Taran Noah Smith, who played the youngest Taylor son on 'Home Improvement,' says co-star Patricia Richardson grew exhausted from constantly pushing to keep the show realistic before it ended in 1999 after she declined to return for a ninth season. Smith says much of the creative burden fell on Richardson while Tim Allen stayed more hands-off, and that a pay gap between the two co-stars was also a sticking point. Richardson reportedly felt Disney never fully credited her creative contributions to the show, despite Allen receiving an executive producer credit.

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Photo: Patricia Richardson with Tim Allen and Jay Leno, 1993 Emmy Awards, by Alan Light, CC BY 2.0 #breakingnews

Foiled UK terror plot near RAF Fairford raises alarm over security at US bases worldwide

Investigators say the five men arrested near RAF Fairford, England, may have been planning a coordinated vehicle-bomb attack on U.S. strategic bombers stationed at the base, according to a former intelligence official. A local farmer's quick thinking helped alert police before three suspicious vans could reach the airfield, which hosts American B-52 and B-2 bombers and serves as a key U.S. Air Force hub in Europe. Investigators are reportedly looking into a possible Iranian link, alongside Russian sabotage and Islamist terror angles, and experts warn the plot highlights broader security risks facing U.S. military installations globally.

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Photo: U.S. Air Force B-52 at RAF Fairford (public domain) #breakingnews

Fetterman accidentally calls himself a 'lifelong Republican' at Texas Tribune Festival

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman drew laughs at the Texas Tribune Festival when, asked why he doesn't run as an independent, he replied, "Because I'm a lifelong Republican" before catching the slip. Fetterman laughed it off, joked "that'll get clipped," and corrected himself to say he's a lifelong Democrat. The moment comes amid ongoing speculation that the Pennsylvania senator, who has frequently broken with his party, could caucus with Republicans after the 2026 midterms.

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Photo: Official U.S. Senate portrait (public domain) #breakingnews

Team USA captain credits Trump for inspiring historic Presidents Cup comeback

Team USA stormed back from a 10.5 to 7.5 deficit heading into Sunday singles to win the 2026 Presidents Cup 17-13, marking the Americans' 11th straight victory in the event. Assistant captain Brandt Snedeker credited President Trump, who served as honorary chair, with inspiring the comeback, saying Trump told the team to "bring some energy" and that he'd "get all the credit" if they pulled it off. Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and 21-year-old rookie Jackson Koivun led big back-nine surges to seal the win.

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Photo: Official White House portrait by Daniel Torok (public domain) #breakingnews

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