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Month: October 2025

An FAA air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Tuesday.

‘The stress is just always there,’ as thousands of FAA workers go without paycheck

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — For certain workers at the Federal Aviation Administration, the government shutdown hit hardest this week with a $0 paycheck. It’s “disheartening,” to not be paid by an employer, said Cleverson Schmidt, a radar technician based in Washington, DC. “I’m trying to stay level, and I’m praying I don’t

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President Donald Trump speaks to journalists aboard Air Force One on Wednesday.

Both Democratic and GOP-led states are starting to rebel against the national redistricting push

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — National political leaders are making frantic, last-ditch efforts in multiple states to redraw more US House districts ahead of next year’s midterms. But their ambitions face big political and procedural obstacles and in some cases, open rebellion from state lawmakers pushing back against pressure from the top leaders in

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he walks to Marine One in Washington

Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China

By Simone McCarthy, Brad Lendon, Betsy Klein, CNN Beijing/Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing tensions between the world’s nuclear-armed superpowers. Trump

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