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JD Vance says government likely ‘headed into a shutdown’ after Trump meets with Dems

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Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left a meeting with President Donald Trump with no deal to avert a government shutdown as the deadline fast approaches.
Leaders met with Trump on Monday for roughly an hour to negotiate a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown, but it appeared neither side was willing to budge from their position.
Vice President JD Vance said after the meeting, «I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing. I hope they change their mind.»
«If you look at the original they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package, basically saying the American people want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care, while Americans are struggling to pay their health care bills,» Vance said. «That was their initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd.»
DEMS NOT BUDGING ON GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DEMANDS AHEAD OF HIGH-STAKES TRUMP MEETING, JEFFRIES SUGGESTS
Vice President JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought spoke to reporters after congressional leaders met with President Donald Trump on Sept. 29, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Democrats, however, have pushed back on assertions that they’re looking to salvage healthcare for anyone but the American people.
«There was a frank and direct discussion with the President of the United States and Republican leaders. But significant and meaningful differences remain,» Jeffries said. «Democrats are fighting to protect the health care of the American people, and we are not going to support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the health care of every day America, period.»
Congress has until midnight Oct. 1 to pass a short-term funding extension, or continuing resolution (CR), to avert a partial government shutdown. The House already passed a funding extension, but the bill was blocked in the Senate earlier this month.
Republicans and the White House want to move forward with their «clean,» short-term funding extension until Nov. 21, while Democrats have offered a counter-proposal that includes a permanent extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits and other wishlist items that are a bridge too far for the GOP.
Vance appeared alongside Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought in a show of Republican unity after the meeting, but made clear both sides are still far apart.
Thune, holding up a copy of the funding extension, panned Jeffries and Schumer’s accusation that the bill was partisan in nature.
Congressional Republicans argue that the House GOP’s is everything that Democrats pushed when they controlled the Senate: a «clean,» short-term extension to Nov. 21 without partisan policy riders or spending, save for millions in new spending for increased security for lawmakers.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, hold a news conference on the GOP reconciliation bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
«To me, this is purely a hostage-taking exercise on the part of the Democrats,» Thune said. «We are willing to sit down and work with them on some of the issues they want to talk about, whether it’s an extension of premium tax credits, with reforms, we’re happy to have that conversation. But as of right now, this is a hijacking.»
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries took questions after their remarks, but appeared slightly more optimistic than their GOP counterparts after the meeting concluded.
«I think for the first time, the president heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill,» Schumer said. «Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input. That is never how we’ve done this before.»
Vance said he was «highly skeptical» that it was Trump’s first time hearing the issue and said there was a bipartisan path forward on healthcare – but panned Democrats’ push to include an extension of COVID-19 pandemic-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) extensions in the bill.
«We want to work across the aisle to make sure that people have access to good healthcare,» he said, but added, «We are not going to let Democrats shut down the government and take a hostage unless we give them everything that they want. That’s not how the people’s government has ever worked.»
The meeting in the Oval Office comes after Trump canceled a previously scheduled confab last week with just Schumer and Jeffries. At the time, the president railed against their demands on his social media platform Truth Social and contended that congressional Democrats were pushing «radical Left policies that nobody voted for» in their counter-CR.

President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Democrats’ demands center on an extension to expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, though their counter-proposal also included language to repeal the healthcare section of the GOP’s «big, beautiful bill» and a clawback of canceled NPR and PBS funding.
Senate Republicans have argued that Democrats’ desires are unserious, and Thune has publicly said that Republicans would be willing to have discussions on the ACA subsidies, which are set to sunset at the end of this year, after the government is funded.
Schumer insisted Democrats needed it addressed immediately, however, in a press conference back on Capitol Hill after the meeting.
«We think when they say later, they mean never. We have to do it now, first because of the timing issue and second, because now is the time we can get it done,» he said.
The White House is also leveraging the threat of mass firings should the government shut down that go beyond the standard furloughing of nonessential employees. Still, Schumer and Senate Democrats have not buckled.
The Senate is expected to vote again on the bill on Tuesday.
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Una mujer fue acusada de haber asesinado a su hija, dio una declaración falsa, pero fue beneficiada con un fallo polémico: el caso de «la madre más odiada» de EE.UU.

El 11 de diciembre de 2008, casi seis meses después de la desaparición de Caylee Anthony, un trabajador que recorría una zona de bosques en Orlando, Florida, hizo un hallazgo estremecedor: había restos humanos dentro de una bolsa de basura, a pocos metros de la casa de la familia de la nena.
El lugar, que había sido rastrillado en operativos previos, estaba inundado por las lluvias, lo que había dificultado la revisión. Con el correr de los días, los peritajes confirmaron lo peor. Se trataba de la nena de dos años, que había sido buscada desde julio de ese año, cuando su abuela hizo la denuncia.
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Poco después, con el avance de la investigación, la madre de la menor, Casey Anthony, quedó en el centro de la sospecha al dar una versión contradictoria a la Policía.
La desaparición
El caso se inició en junio de 2008 cuando Caylee Anthony desapareció. En un primer momento, no hubo denuncia ni búsqueda oficial, lo que hizo que su ausencia pasara inadvertida fuera del entorno de su familia. Sin embargo, con el paso de las semanas, las respuestas evasivas de su mamá comenzaron a generar sospechas.
Durante 31 días, Casey Anthony, una joven de 22 años, no reportó el hecho que involucraba a su hija ni acudió a las autoridades. La situación salió a la luz recién el 15 de julio de ese año, cuando Cindy Anthony, la abuela de la nena, decidió llamar al 911.
Desesperada, aseguró que hacía más de un mes que no veía a su nieta y que su hija le daba explicaciones contradictorias sobre su paradero. En ese mismo contacto, aportó un dato clave que cambiaría el rumbo de la investigación: había retirado el auto de Casey de un depósito judicial y, al abrirlo, percibió un olor penetrante que, según describió, era similar al de un cuerpo en descomposición. Ese elemento encendió las alarmas y colocó rápidamente a Anthony en el centro de la investigación. La denuncia por la desaparición la realizó la abuela de la nena un mes después de que se le perdiera el rastro. (Foto: CBS News)
En sus primeras declaraciones, la mujer aseguró que su hija había sido secuestrada por una niñera llamada Zenaida Fernández-González. Sin embargo, los investigadores comprobaron rápidamente que esa persona no tenía vínculo alguno con la familia y que la historia había sido inventada.
Las inconsistencias no terminaron ahí. Casey también afirmó que trabajaba en el parque de Universal Studios, pero cuando los policías la acompañaron hasta el lugar para verificar su versión, terminó admitiendo que no tenía un puesto ahí y que nunca lo había tenido. Estas mentiras reforzaron aún más las sospechas en su contra.
El macabro hallazgo
El hallazgo del cuerpo de Caylee conmocionó a la sociedad estadounidense, ya que sus restos estaban dentro de una bolsa de basura, en una zona que estaba muy cerca de la casa de los padres de Casey, donde también vivía con su hija. El cadáver se encontraba en un estado avanzado de descomposición, lo cual complicó el trabajo de los peritos.
Cerca del cráneo se encontró cinta adhesiva, un elemento que fue interpretado por la fiscalía como un signo de asfixia. Sin embargo, los forenses no pudieron determinar de manera concluyente la causa de muerte.
A pesar de esa limitación, los fiscales elaboraron una hipótesis: Casey Anthony había asesinado a su hija para liberarse de sus responsabilidades. En esta línea, la nena habría sido sedada -posiblemente con cloroformo- y luego asfixiada.
Para sostener esa acusación, presentaron distintos elementos. Entre ellos, búsquedas en la computadora familiar relacionadas con sustancias químicas y métodos para provocar la muerte, además de peritajes que sugerían la presencia de descomposición en el auto de la acusada.
Casey Anthony se convirtió en la principal sospechosa por la muerte de su hija de dos años. (Foto: The Guardian)
Otro punto clave para la fiscalía fue el comportamiento de Casey durante las semanas en que Caylee estaba desaparecida. De acuerdo al testimonio de varios testigos, la joven de 22 años salía a bailar, asistía a fiestas y llevaba una vida social activa. Esto contrastaba con la imagen de una madre desesperada por encontrar a su hija.
Frente a esa acusación, la defensa planteó un escenario completamente distinto. Según sus abogados, la muerte de Caylee no había sido un homicidio, sino un accidente.
La principal hipótesis fue que la nena se había ahogado en la pileta de la casa de sus abuelos y que el padre de Casey había encontrado el cuerpo. Siempre según esta versión, el hombre decidió ocultar lo que había pasado para proteger a su hija.
En ese contexto, las mentiras de Casey -incluida la historia de la niñera- fueron presentadas como intentos desesperados de encubrir una situación traumática, más que como parte de un plan criminal.
El problema central del caso era la falta de evidencia concluyente. Sin una causa de muerte determinada, la acusación dependía en gran medida de indicios y de la interpretación del comportamiento de la imputada.
Un juicio mediático y un fallo que causó polémica
El juicio comenzó en mayo de 2011 y se convirtió en uno de los más seguidos en la historia reciente de Estados Unidos. Durante semanas, los testimonos de peritos, investigadores y familiares ocuparon horas de transmisión en vivo y generaron un intenso debate público.
La fiscalía insistió en que Casey Anthony había matado a su hija y luego había construido una red de mentiras para encubrir el crimen. La defensa, en cambio, logró instalar dudas sobre la solidez de las pruebas. El juicio contra Casey Anthony fue uno de los más mediáticos en la historia reciente de Estados Unidos. (Foto: CNN)
El 5 de julio de 2011, después de días de deliberación, el jurado dio a conocer su decisión: Casey Anthony fue declarada no culpable de asesinato en primer grado, homicidio involuntario agravado y abuso infantil.
La única condena que recibió fue por proporcionar información falsa a la Policía, pero como ya había pasado tiempo en prisión preventiva, recuperó la libertad pocos días después.
El fallo provocó controversia en la sociedad estadounidense que, en su mayoría, opinaba que la mujer era la única responsable en la muerte de Caylee. Por eso, su caso quedó apodado como el de “la madre más odiada” de Estados Unidos.
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Seis años después de ser absuelta, Casey Anthony rompió el silencio en una entrevista con AP y aseguró que nunca supo qué le pasó a Caylee. “No me importa lo que la gente piense de mí. Nunca me importará. Estoy bien conmigo misma. Duermo bastante bien por las noches”, sostuvo.
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Fiery aftermath of Iran missile strike near Tel Aviv caught on video after 2 killed

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Video footage captured the fiery aftermath of a ballistic missile strike that hit Ramat Gan, a neighborhood east of Tel Aviv, overnight Tuesday, killing at least two people, according to Israeli officials.
The footage shows a car engulfed in flames, with wreckage scattered across the street as emergency responders assess the scene and ambulance sirens sound in the background.
The missile was launched by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which said it targeted central Israel to avenge the killing of Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and one of the country’s most powerful figures.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it launched Khorramshahr-4 and Qadr multiple-warhead missiles, which it claims have an increased chance of evading missile defense systems and can overwhelm radar tracking.
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Emergency workers respond to a ballistic missile attack in which a couple in their 70s were killed, according to published reports, on March 18, 2026 in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Israel said the two victims killed in the overnight strike were a couple in their 70s.
The attack is part of a rapidly escalating tit-for-tat conflict that began Feb. 28 following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, which have since killed multiple senior Iranian officials. Those include Larijani and Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani, head of the Revolutionary Guard’s Basij militia, who was killed Tuesday.

A first responder on scene after a deadly Iranian ballistic missile attack lands near Tel Aviv. (Magen David Adom)
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also said Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib was killed in an overnight strike, though Iran has not confirmed his death.

Iran launched a retaliatory missile against Israel overnight Tuesday. (Magen David Adom)
Iran has responded with a widening campaign of missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, U.S.-linked positions and energy infrastructure across the Persian Gulf, including strikes reported in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain.
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The broader conflict has raised fears of a regional war and potential disruptions to global energy supplies, as Iran has also threatened shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a critical transit route for the world’s oil.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Senate to question Trump intel leaders on Iran war after top official quits in protest

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Lawmakers will get to grill President Donald Trump’s top intelligence and spying officials on the Iran war publicly for the first time, just a day after the nation’s top counterterrorism official resigned in protest over the conflict.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, National Security Agency chief Lt. Gen. William Hartman and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. James Adams are all set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
The hearing comes after Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center under Gabbard, suddenly exited the job on Tuesday.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
«I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,» Kent said on X. «Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.»
While Venezuela and Cuba could be points of discussion, Iran will likely be a major topic during the annual Worldwide Threats hearing, given that Senate Democrats have clamored for public hearings from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on the ongoing war.
Gabbard, who built her political career bucking war with Iran and the U.S. getting involved in regime change, will likely be grilled over Kent’s resignation from his post.
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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, is sworn in to the House Homeland Security Committee hearing titled, «Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,» in the Cannon building on Dec. 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Following his announcement, Gabbard said that her job as DNI chief is to help «coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions.»
«After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat, and he took action based on that conclusion,» Gabbard said on X.
The hearing will be led by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who is the top-ranking Democrat on the panel.
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., argued that the war with Iran would continue for weeks, not days, as the U.S. continues to kneecap its offensive abilities. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Both have been at odds in their view of the war — Cotton fervently backs Trump’s decision, while Warner argued that Iran posed no «imminent threat» to the U.S.
«So the decision to put our service members in harm’s way and bases around the region in harm’s way was entirely based upon the president’s decision, not an imminent threat to America,» Warner told CNN earlier this month.
Cotton speculated that the conflict would end in a matter of weeks, and reaffirmed that position when pressed.
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«I’ve said that, based on my conversations with the President and my understanding of Iran’s military capabilities, I would expect it to take weeks, not days, and we’re only a couple weeks into it,» Cotton said.
«And again, every single day brings hundreds, if not 1000s, of strikes into Iran that steadily and methodically degrade their military, and the end state will be a country … without the offensive capabilities to continue to terrorize the United States, Israel, our Arab friends and the civilized world,» he continued.
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