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The U.S. Capitol is seen on the second day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AP reader question: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online?

3:41 PM on Friday, October 3

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online in discussing the shutdown

Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to strip protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

3:34 PM on Friday, October 3

Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to strip protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle is parked outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in Broadview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Trump administration offers migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to home countries

3:25 PM on Friday, October 3

The Trump administration is offering migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport

A protester is sprayed by a Department of Homeland Security officer outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Portland braces for federal troops as protests escalate and conservative influencer is arrested

3:18 PM on Friday, October 3

Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal troops promised by President Donald Trump

FILE - A medical assistant takes the pulse of a one month-old patient during a checkup at the Seattle Indian Health Board Clinic, which relies on federal funding to operate, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Federal shutdown hurts services for Native Americans and they worry worse is coming

3:04 PM on Friday, October 3

Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to their health care, education and infrastructure

FILE - Leqaa Kordia, right, demonstrates with pro-Palestianian protesters as they gather near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, just before New York City police officers cleared the area after a building was taken over by protesters earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Takeaways from AP's interview with the only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown

3:00 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

Hamas says it accepts some elements of Trump’s peace plan but that others require further negotiation

2:50 PM on Friday, October 3

Hamas says it accepts some elements of Trump’s peace plan but that others require further negotiation

Speaker Johnson cancels House votes for next week as Republicans pressure Senate to accept funding bill and end shutdown

2:46 PM on Friday, October 3

Speaker Johnson cancels House votes for next week as Republicans pressure Senate to accept funding bill and end shutdown

FILE - Members of the Armed Forces, including the National Guard, patrol the subway system in Penn Station as police officers check commuters' bags in New York on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Trump reverses $187M funding cuts for New York counterterrorism after bipartisan outcry

2:18 PM on Friday, October 3

President Donald Trump has reversed $187 million in funding cuts for New York's law enforcement and counterterrorism operations

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein speaks while Chelsea Gray of Rutherfordton, N.C., left, and Dr. Jenna Beckham, right, listen at a news conference about Medicaid reimbursement rate reductions at the Alliance Medical Ministry in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

North Carolina governor signs criminal justice bill into law after Ukrainian refugee’s death

1:57 PM on Friday, October 3

North Carolina’s Democratic governor has signed into law a criminal justice measure pushed by the Republican-controlled legislature in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train

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

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)

Noem visits Chicago area ICE facility as agents detain multiple protesters outside

12:26 PM on Friday, October 3

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

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 off Venezuela

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli military strike in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Trump orders Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas partially accepts his peace plan

9:23 AM on Friday, October 3

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered Israel to stop bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of his plan to end the nearly two-year war and return all the remaining hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack

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 - 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: Hamas accepts some elements of Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, others require negotiation

6:46 AM on Friday, October 3

Hamas responded Friday to President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, agreeing to give up power and release all remaining hostages, but the group said that other elements require further consultations among Palestinians

The state flag of Tennessee stands outside the office of Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in Washington, Sept. 2, 2025, which has a seat that became vacant following the resignation of Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn. on July 20. (AP Photo/Robert Yoon)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Tennessee's special congressional election

6:35 AM on Friday, October 3

More than a dozen candidates will compete for their parties’ nominations Tuesday to fill a vacant Tennessee congressional seat in the closely divided U.S. House

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)

Government funding vote fails again in Senate as hopes fade for quick end to shutdown

6:08 AM on Friday, October 3

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown are fading

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