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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: A view of the U.S. Capitol as the sun sets on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. House and Senate leadership met with President Donald Trump earlier in the day at the White House to try and avoid a government shutdown at midnight September 30. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senate remains gridlocked as shutdown enters new week

The government shutdown continues on its fifth day, with little progress made as Democrats continue to hold out in an attempt to repeal the Trump administration’s prior spending cuts and restore Obamacare subsidies.

Hamas fighters gather at the site of the handing over of Israeli hostages at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip as part of the seventh hostage-prisoner release on February 22, 2025. Hamas's armed wing confirmed it will hand over on February 22 six hostages held alive in the Gaza Strip as part of the ongoing ceasefire deal with Israel. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP) (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump issues Sunday deadline for Hamas to accept ‘LAST CHANCE’ peace proposal

President Donald Trump issued a hard deadline for Hamas to accept his recently proposed 20-point peace plan on Friday, giving the terror group until Sunday evening to accept the deal or “all HELL” will break out.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) delivers remarks and holds up a copy of a "clean CR" following a meeting with Congressional Democrats and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. Congressional leaders met with President Trump to negotiate funding legislation to avoid a government shutdown. Thune was accompanied by (L-R) Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Vice President JD Vance. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Vance predicts Govt shutdown after meeting with Trump and congressional leaders

Vice President JD Vance has publicly stated that he believes the federal government will go into its first partial shutdown in nearly seven years on Wednesday night — citing a lack of agreement between Republicans and Democrats.

TOPSHOT - Ukrainian members of the OPFOR (opposing force) battalion ride on top of an armoured personnel carrier as they take part in a military training in the Donetsk region on September 26, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) (Photo by ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: Backed by EU and NATO, Kyiv is in position ‘to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form’

President Donald Trump has seemingly shifted his rhetoric in regard to the Russia-Ukraine war, proclaiming that Kyiv can win back all of its land seized by Russia, after previously suggesting that Ukraine would have to concede land to end the war.

U.S. President Donald Trump talks at a press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Chequers at the conclusion of a state visit on September 18, 2025 in Aylesbury, England. This is the final day of President Trump’s second UK state visit, with the previous one taking place in 2019 during his first presidential term. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) / Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the beginning of a bilateral meeting with President of Congo Republic Denis Sassou Nguesso (not pictured) in The Great Hall of People on September 04, 2025 in Beijing, China. At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, 26 foreign heads of state and government will attend a military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and Japan's surrender. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Trump to meet in-person with President Xi Jinping, discuss TikTok deal

President Donald Trump announced that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have their first face-to-face meeting since his re-election, and have “made progress” on a TikTok deal.

(From front L to front R) Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Finland's President Alexander Stubb, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, France's President Emmanuel Macron, White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, European Council President Antonio Costa and Netherlands' outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof speak during the Coalition of the Willing Summit, at The Elysee presidential Palace in Paris, on September 4, 2025. European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in Paris on September 4, 2025, in a new effort to pile pressure on Russia's President Vladimir Putin after he vowed Russia will fight on in Ukraine if no peace deal is reached. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump pressures European leaders to stop purchasing Russian oil, undermining Moscow’s war funding

President Donald Trump is calling on European leaders to halt purchases of Russian oil, hoping to increase pressure on Moscow to participate in substantive negotiations in relation to Ukraine and the ongoing war.