Top Stories for October 1, 2026.

Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il

In the third installment of In Your Backyard, Luke Radel talks to two people hurt by the Trump administration’s rollback of pollution protections, and a member of Congress shaping the fight ahead.

A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.

A trucking family says record diesel prices are threatening their business and forcing them to live in their truck

How do you keep defending the indefensible?

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

It’s becoming a problem for all of us

… Trump fell asleep again in the middle of the day, this time at the 9/11 service held at the Pentagon.

Their emergency filing argues that Clark’s order has put Missouri election officials in an “impossible position” because it directly conflicts with the Missouri Supreme Court’s ruling last week that H...

A Supreme Court justice rejected a bid to revive Missouri’s pro-GOP redistricting before midterms, but a federal judge practically simultaneously gave the state the OK to continue with the plan.

Hundreds of masked white nationalists marched in the nation's capital on July Fourth. Who were they and where does their funding come from?

Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.

The killing occurred in Biddeford, about 20 miles south of Portland. The Trump administration has stepped up immigration enforcement nationally in recent weeks.

Police closed part of busy Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday morning and there was a significant police presence.

The president said he talked to Graham about the bill hours before his death.

Hey everybody, it’s Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network.

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For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heav...

The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act. The administration narrowed the definition of "harm" under the landmark law.

A tax-exempt nonprofit tied to a private prison company will operate a new ICE facility in Louisiana, prompting questions from a former IRS expert.

Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...

Many schools rely on consumer fees funneled through the federal government to cut internet costs. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called for ending this program before Donald Trump tapped him for the job.