U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie says he has the signatures to force U.S. House vote on releasing Epstein files. Sen. Rand Paul joins Massie on tour of his Kentucky district. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/24/m...

Breaking: Two people shot and shooter killed after shooting at Dallas ICE facility.

'Your countries are going to hell': Trump lashes out at world leaders at UN Story by @ashleymurray.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/your...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Man who represented himself is found guilty of trying to assassinate Trump at Florida golf course.

I spoke with three medical experts to better understand the basics about autism, including how it's diagnosed, what the research shows and the biggest misconceptions. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Schumer and Jeffries formally announce meeting with Trump this week, ahead of Oct. 1 government shutdown deadline.

Trump ties autism to Tylenol use in pregnancy despite inconclusive scientific evidence www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Democratic leaders release letter to Trump, demanding a meeting ahead of the Oct. 1 government shutdown deadline.

“This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations,” we told @kenbensinger.bsky.social “The government cannot prohibit journalists from public information merely by claiming it’s a secret or even a national security threat.”

Trump administration again asks US Supreme Court to end protections for Venezuelans www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Schumer: “Now that it's clear that neither bill will get the 60 votes that the Senate needs, it’s time to negotiate.”

Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Susan Collins says the full-year Ag, LegBranch and MilConVa spending bills are “virtually done” and that she hopes lawmakers vote on the three-bill minibus when they’re back from the break. These negotiations are completely separate from CR talks.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker asking reporters waiting on Dems press conference how he can become president of the congressional press corps and if mullets are a popular hair style.

Chance of government shutdown rises as US Senate fails to advance spending bill w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/chan...

Thune says the Senate will take another vote on the House-passed stopgap spending bill at some point but “not today.”

House schedule update as we inch closer and closer to a government shutdown starting on Oct . 1

Thune on next weeks scheduled Rosh Hashanah break amid govt funding impasse — “I’d say it’s unlikely we’ll be in next week but, obviously, you never completely shut the door.”

Thune tells us he expects the Senate to vote on the House-passed stopgap spending bill this afternoon. “It looks to me like it’s this or a shutdown.”

GOP bill averting shutdown passed by US House, but expected to falter in Senate w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gop-...

‘Vile’, ‘corrosive’, ‘toxic’ … and unquittable. Colorado’s members of Congress on how social media impacts their work and American society www.cpr.org/2025/09/19/c... #copolitics

Schumer says the Senate will vote tomorrow on Republicans' seven-week stopgap government funding bill as well as Democrats proposal, which includes health care provisions. Neither is likely to have the 60 votes needed to advance.

‘Crumbled like a house of cards’: Judge slams DOJ claims about deporting migrant children www.newsfromthestates.com/article/crum...

Big batch of Trump nominees moves through US Senate after Republicans change rules www.newsfromthestates.com/article/big-...

DACA recipients swept up in Trump mass deportation campaign, advocates report www.newsfromthestates.com/article/daca...

Trump asks US Supreme Court to permit firing of the Fed's Lisa Cook www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

It’s virtually impossible to see how Democrats can retake the majority in 2026 — or even 2028 — without flipping Collins’ seat. Read @jessicataylor.bsky.social's latest analysis.

Thune: "I expect the House to advance a clean CR tomorrow, and I hope, I really hope, the Democrats will come to their senses and join us in passing it. The ball is in their court."

Congressional Budget Office says permanently extending the enhanced ACA tax credit would cost $350 billion and increase the number of people with health insurance by 3.8 million during the next decade www.cbo.gov/system/files...

What will a government shutdown during the second Trump administration look like? One GOP senator expects "the president will make it very painful.” More details here www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-r...

US rolls toward a 'terrible' government shutdown, no exit ramp in sight www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-r...

Sen. Cassidy tells us not forming any conclusions until after a hearing with HHS Sec. Kennedy. “I am steadfastly not judging until we have a chance to hear the Secretary's perspective.”

🧵Senate hearing with former CDC director Susan Monarez getting underway now with Chairman Bill Cassidy saying he's approaching it as a doctor and a senator.

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin says Dems have drafted a short-term government funding bill of their own. “We have a counteroffer which we will be pushing.”

Government shutdown looms Oct. 1 as Congress struggles with stopgap spending plan www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gove...

House CR text is out -- appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Speaker Johnson says the House will release text around noon for a short-term stopgap spending bill.

Watchdog agency says Trump violated law for sixth time in withholding FEMA funds www.newsfromthestates.com/article/watc...

President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday it will redirect $495 million in additional funding to historically Black colleges and universities as well as tribal colleges. via Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-e...

Thune says he hopes the Senate will approve a "clean" short-term government funding extension this week, though he acknowledges Republicans will need Democrats to advance the bill in the Senate.

Trump encouraging Republicans to vote for the unreleased stopgap spending bill amid some pushback, but it will need 60 votes to get through the Senate before the Oct. 1 deadline. GOP leaders cannot do this on their own the way they did on OBBBA.

Republicans in Congress approved a budget resolution earlier this year, so why are we talking about a possible government shutdown? Well, the budget resolution doesn't include any actual money. I explained the whole confusing process earlier this year. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/your...

Former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo dropped her bid to again represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District Friday.

In a week when Americans witnessed a public political assassination, oceans of angry words and a collective sense of horror and exhaustion, one man stepped up to a microphone and said something that stood out: It doesn’t have to be like this. apnews.com/article/utah...

Trump administration sued for using Ghana as ‘end-run’ around deportation protections www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Gov. Bill Lee confirmed Friday he has been in “constant communication” with the Trump administration about deploying the Tennessee National Guard to Memphis as part of a crime crackdown.

Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the country began telling Medicaid patients Friday that their routine health care appointments will no longer be covered as a federal court order takes effect www.newsfromthestates.com/article/appe...

Friendly reminder - Just because the House and Senate didn't vote in a given year to formally conference the government funding bills, that doesn't mean they didn't negotiate final bipartisan versions of those bills. www.congress.gov/crs-appropri...

Law enforcement arrested Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Washington County resident suspected in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, after a family member reported the young Utahn who had grown increasingly political had suggested he was behind the shooting. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/12/2...

First Circuit overturns district court preliminary injunction that was preventing the Trump administration from implementing a provision in Republicans "big, beautiful" law that blocks Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood for one year. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...