The price tag for President Trump's new White House ballroom has increased from $200 million to $300 million, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Thursday.

A federal food aid program that helps about one-eighth of Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown, and even some states that want to step in to fill the gap have found they can't.

Hoan Huynh was going door-to-door informing businesses of ramped up immigration enforcement on Chicago's North Side when the Democratic state lawmaker got an activist notification of federal agents nearby.

New York Mayor Eric Adams endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the mayor's race Thursday, trying to help the Democratic Party establishment derail the runaway campaign of socialist Zohran Mamdani.

One of the casualties of the shutdown showdown is that Democrats have lost their access to ICE facilities.

Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to increase the reporting thresholds for currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports under the Bank Secrecy Act.

After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class, according to an Associated Press analysis.

Senate Democrats blocked a bill Thursday to pay federal employees who are working during the shutdown.