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FILE - Kids play outside a polling precinct, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Guadalupe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

A by the numbers look at the current Hispanic population in the United States

1:34 PM on Friday, October 3

More than 68 million people in the United States identify as ethnically Hispanic, making it one the nation’s fastest growing racial or ethnic groups

FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)

Republican-led Georgia state Senate committee plans to question Fani Willis next month

1:14 PM on Friday, October 3

A Georgia special state Senate committee plans to question Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis next month

In this undated photo, Leqaa Kordia sits for a portrait in New York. (AP Photo)

The only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown breaks silence: 'I feel helpless'

1:11 PM on Friday, October 3

A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (Ramil Sitdikov/Pool Photo via AP)

Armenian archbishop sentenced to 2 years in prison over alleged coup plot

1:02 PM on Friday, October 3

A court in Armenia has sentenced a prominent cleric to two years in prison

FILE - In this photo provided by the Tunisian Presidency, President Kais Saied takes oath, Oct. 21, 2024 in Tunis following his re-election. (Tunisian Presidency via AP, File)

A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president

12:44 PM on Friday, October 3

A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to the president and a threat to state security

Law enforcement detains a protester near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Protesters at ICE facility object to barricades, agents detain multiple people

12:26 PM on Friday, October 3

Federal agents have detained several people near an immigration facility outside Chicago

FILE - Sacks of flour are unloaded from a truck as residents receive their monthly food supplies from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at a warehouse at the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, April 13, 2006. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming UN agency enabled Hamas' deadly attack on Israel

12:12 PM on Friday, October 3

A lawsuit that claimed the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees had provided more than $1 billion that enabled Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel was dismissed this week by a federal judge in New York

House Democrats prepare to speak on the steps of the Capitol to insist that Republicans include an extension of expiring health care benefits as part of a government funding compromise, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Just before shutdown, most Americans wanted health insurance tax credits extended, KFF poll finds

12:08 PM on Friday, October 3

A new poll conducted just prior to the current government shutdown showed most Americans wanted Congress to extend tax credits that could expire at the end of the year

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Quantico, Va. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via AP)

Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs

12:01 PM on Friday, October 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, expanding what the Trump administration has declared is an “armed conflict” with cartels

FILE - Trucks come and go from the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Collier County, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Feds approve Florida for a $608 million 'Alligator Alcatraz' reimbursement

10:32 AM on Friday, October 3

Federal officials have confirmed Florida's approval for a $608 million reimbursement for building and running an immigration detention center in the Everglades

A hiring sign is displayed at a post office in Schaumburg, Ill., Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Lack of jobs data due to government shutdown muddies view of hiring and the US economy

9:58 AM on Friday, October 3

From Wall Street trading floors to the Federal Reserve to economists sipping coffee in their home offices, the first Friday morning of the month typically brings a quiet hush around 8:30 a.m. eastern, as everyone awaits the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to meet Trump at the White House next week

8:49 AM on Friday, October 3

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is to hold face-to-face talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in the distance, framed through columns of the U.S. Senate at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court will consider overturning Hawaii's strict ban on guns on private property

8:36 AM on Friday, October 3

The Supreme Court says it'll take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii

FILE - Cars pass the 95th Street Red Line Station, the train station currently the farthest south on the line and where the Chicago Transit Authority plans to extend from in 2025, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Trump pauses $2.1B for Chicago infrastructure projects, leveraging shutdown to pressure Democrats

6:57 AM on Friday, October 3

White House budget director Russ Vought says the Trump administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown

FILE - Activists carry signs during a protest against President Donald Trump's federal takeover of policing of the District of Columbia, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Latest: Trump readies layoffs and cuts as the Senate votes on government funding

6:46 AM on Friday, October 3

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown were fading Friday as Republicans and Democrats dug in for a prolonged fight and President Donald Trump readied plans to unleash layoffs and cuts across the federal government

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., return to their offices after meeting with reporters on the third day of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hopes fade for a quick end to the shutdown as Trump readies layoffs and cuts

6:08 AM on Friday, October 3

A bipartisan group senators has been discussing possible health care compromises aimed at ending the government shutdown

Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah, center, speaks during a panel discussion about the impact of Black women in media at the Congressional Black Caucus's Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Brown)

In Black columnist's firing, advocates fear decreasing diversity, vital perspectives in news media

11:08 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Karen Attiah, a former opinion columnist at The Washington Post, says she was fired after social media posts expressing concerns about gun violence and rhetoric against Black women

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

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

1:30 PM on Wednesday, October 1

President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally

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