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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) holds a press conference about the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 6, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Oct. 8 that he expects that federal workers will receive back pay when the government reopens. “It’s my

A closed sign outside the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Capitol Hill on the seventh day of the federal government shutdown, in Washington on Oct. 7, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Senate on Oct. 8 again failed to advance bills that would restore funding to the government and end the shutdown that has

The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Hawthorne, Calif., on March 1, 2020. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Two men have been charged by a federal grand jury with making threats against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer and his wife on social media, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has revealed. Frank Andrew

The Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Supreme Court seemed receptive on Oct. 8 to a Republican congressman’s argument that he should be allowed to challenge an Illinois law that allows the counting of ballots for two weeks after Election Day. Arguments in the case focused on the

The logo of the Department of Commerce in Washington on March 13, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo The Commerce Department added 19 Chinese entities that have supported or supplied drones to terrorist organizations to an entity list on Oct. 8. Among them are Goodview Global, found to be part of an illicit network supplying the sanctioned