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Democratic state House Speaker Javier Martínez, center back, of Albuquerque, N.M., takes his seat at the opening of a special legislative session about proposals to shore up safety net spending in response to President Donald Trump's recent cuts, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico Legislature approves bills to prop up rural health care, underwrite food assistance

7:26 PM on Thursday, October 2

New Mexico legislators are moving quickly to prop up funding for food assistance and rural health care services in response to President Donald Trump’s cuts in federal spending on Medicaid and nutrition programs

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders, from left, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., blame the government shutdown on Democrats during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The blame game is on at federal agencies, where political messages fault Democrats for the shutdown

6:34 PM on Thursday, October 2

Americans' routine interactions with the federal government this week are increasingly being met with partisan messaging

The gateway to the Vicksburg National Military Park tour road sits closed Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, in Vicksburg, Miss. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

Fundraising groups step up to help reopen national park sites and welcome visitors

6:27 PM on Thursday, October 2

One of Mississippi’s most-visited cultural attractions has reopened in the midst of the government shutdown, thanks to funding from a nonprofit group

Lia Post, of Springfield, Neb., leaves a meeting of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission, where she sobbed and begged its members to honor the will of the voters in approving comprehensive access to medical marijuana, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Lincoln, Neb. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

Nebraska Republicans are targeting voter-approved medical marijuana, following other GOP-led states

6:16 PM on Thursday, October 2

Nebraska officials have missed a deadline to grant licenses to marijuana growers under a new medical marijuana law approved by voters

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he answers questions during a meeting with foreign policy experts at the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin praises Trump but warns supplies of US long-range missiles to Ukraine will badly hurt ties

4:34 PM on Thursday, October 2

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield

California law caps at $100 most fines that can be levied by homeowners associations

3:49 PM on Thursday, October 2

A provision included in California housing legislation this year caps at $100 the fines that homeowners associations can levy to enforce regulations

FILE - The U.S. District Court is seen, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun. file)

ACLU seeks release of Michigan immigrant held in custody despite life-threatening leukemia

3:09 PM on Thursday, October 2

Lawyers say federal authorities are keeping a Michigan man in custody in a deportation case, despite his life-threatening leukemia

FILE - President Donald Trump silences his mobile phone in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The government shuts down, and Trump goes online — very online

2:33 PM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has been frenetically posting on social media during the government shutdown

FILE - The Department of Justice seal and podium is viewed at the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Justice Department fires key prosecutor in elite office already beset by turmoil, AP sources say

2:33 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Justice Department fired a top national security prosecutor amid criticism from a right-wing commentator over his work during the Biden administration, further roiling the prominent U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia after the ousting of other senior attorneys in recent weeks

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean

1:19 PM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict."

FILE - Residents walk along a sidewalk in Aracuai, Brazil, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Brazil’s lower house approves an increase in tax exemptions for low-income people

1:10 PM on Thursday, October 2

Brazil’s lower house has approved exempting up to 5,000 reais, or about $940, a month from income taxes

Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director, listens as he addresses members of the media outside the West Wing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump administration cuts nearly $8B in clean energy projects in states that backed Harris

1:08 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion intended for clean energy projects across 16 states

People torch and loot a bank as youth led protests calling for healthcare and education reforms turned violent, in Sale, Morocco, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Morocco's youth-led protests demand better schools and hospitals, prime minister resignation

11:01 AM on Thursday, October 2

Youth-led demonstrators in Morocco took to the streets for a sixth straight night despite fear of violence after three people were killed by security forces

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House before signing an executive order regarding childhood cancer and the use of AI, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment

8:45 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats

A displaced Palestinian boy looks at smoke rising into the sky following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza as Hamas considers its response to Trump's peace proposal

6:42 AM on Thursday, October 2

Hospitals say that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

Activists in orange life jackets sit aboard a Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla boat as Israeli navy soldiers sail it into the port of Ashdod, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, after it was intercepted while approaching the Gaza coast. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israeli navy intercepts boats attempting to break Gaza blockade and arrests activists

3:54 AM on Thursday, October 2

Hundreds of Israeli police officers have been deployed to the port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

12:02 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump is using the government shutdown to reshape the federal workforce and target detractors

Pope Leo XIV gestures as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Oct.1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be 'pro-life'

6:56 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church

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