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  • US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, not pictured, in the Cabinet Room of White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. Orban is meeting with Trump at the White House, where the Hungarian leader is seeking to win an exemption from US sanctions on Russian oil. Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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    Trump’s filibuster fixation intensifies after a tough week for the GOP
  • Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to pay federal workers as shutdown stalemate deepens
  • Democrats expected to block GOP push to reopen government without more health care commitments
  • Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington
  • How Johnson and Jeffries’ once collegial relationship has soured in the era of Trump and shutdown politics
  • Democrats emboldened by election results mobilize against centrists’ emerging shutdown deal
  • Top Democrat expresses confidence in US intel on boat strikes, but calls for more transparency from Trump administration
  • Outraged liberals warn Democratic leaders not to cave on shutdown
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  • US military strikes another boat in the Caribbean, killing 3
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  • People cross Pennsylvania Avenue near the US Capitol in Washington DC, at dawn on October 1, 2025.
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    Congress ties record for longest shutdown as bipartisan talks pick up steam
  • Vice President Dick Cheney listens as President Bush, not pictured, speaks to reporters after a closed door intelligence briefing at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, on October 24, 2008.
    Charles Dharapak/AP
    Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies
  • Workers sort tomatoes at a food pantry in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on October 29, 2025.
    Brian Snyder/Reuters
    Uncertainty persists for SNAP recipients, federal workers as shutdown drags on
  • Kerry Bird speaks during a hearing at the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on October 29, 2025.
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    Native American leaders say layoffs and benefit lapses are making this shutdown more painful for Native communities
  • A crosswalk signal of a traffic light flashes backdropped by the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, the first day of the US federal government shutdown.
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    ‘The problem is everybody wants to win’: Congress bitterly deadlocked as shutdown pain skyrockets
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters outside of his office in the US Capitol on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.
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    Republican leaders reject ending the Senate filibuster despite Trump’s call to nuke it
  • Elise Stefanik at the annual CPAC DC conference at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, Maryland on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025.
    Dominic Gwinn/AFP/Getty Images
    Elise Stefanik plans to launch bid for New York governor
  • Sen. John Fetterman is seen with reporters and an aide as he sits on a bench near the Senate chamber at the US Capitol on October 30, 2025.
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    Fetterman rails on his colleagues for not getting their ‘sh*t together’ with SNAP on the line amid the shutdown
  • This screengrab of a video shared by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shows a boat shortly before it is hit by a strike on October 17, 2025. In his post, Hegseth said three people were killed in the strike.
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    Democrats leave classified briefing on US military strikes unsatisfied after Trump administration pulls Pentagon lawyers
  • President Donald Trump attends a dinner event with business leaders in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.
    Mark Schiefelbein/AP
    4 Senate Republicans rebuke Trump for a third time this week, voting with Democrats against president’s global tariffs
  • <p>An irate​ Majority Leader John Thune erupted at Democratic Senator Ben Ray Luján on the Senate floor, with frustration continuing to mount amid the government shutdown.</p>
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    Rank-and-file senators engage in ‘shadow negotiation’ in search for shutdown end
  • Commercial trucks cross into Canada from the US at the Blue Water Bridge border crossing in Sarnia, Ontario, on October 24, 2025.
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    Four Senate Republicans vote with Democrats in effort to end Trump tariffs on Canada
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  • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks with reporters in the hallway outside his office on Tuesday.
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    Johnson says he’s spoken with Trump about ‘the constrictions of the Constitution’ on a third term
  • A view of containers at the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 22.
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    Five Senate Republicans join Democrats to rebuke Trump’s Brazil tariffs
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