Owners are slashing prices to woo furloughed workers in a gamble to keep seats filled; ‘Gridlock nachos’ and ‘Furlough-Ritas’https://www.wsj.com/business/dc-bars-government-shutdown-federal-workers-80512459?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Automaker hoped to use its finance arm to claim the $7,500 federal tax credit on EV leases beyond Sept. 30.https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/gm-backs-off-controversial-ev-tax-credit-move-b43c7971?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Thousands of flights have been slowed during the government shutdown as the FAA grapples with persistent shortages.https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/flight-delays-air-traffic-controllers-government-shutdown-60c691d1?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Omar Yaghi, 60, a U.S. citizen born in Jordan, said he was raised with a dozen others in one room.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/08/nobel-prize-palestinian-omar-yaghi-chemistry/
Trump’s framework to end the war in Gaza is the basis for talks between Israel and Hamas in Egypt, with Qatari, Turkish and the U.S. officials involved.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/08/gaza-peace-talks-trump-plan-ceasefire-israel-hamas-egypt/
More and more European shoppers are buying imitation schnitzel, bratwurst and steak made from plants but some politicians say only real meat should use those names.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/08/imitation-meat-labeling-europe-vegetarian-vegan/
The warning is part of a concerted Russian effort to deter President Donald Trump from giving Ukraine access to the missiles, repeating a tactic Moscow has used throughout the war.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/08/russia-warning-ukraine-tomahawk/
More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language”https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/birds-make-an-alarm-call-that-spans-species-and-continents-and-may-offer-insight-into-the-evolution-of-human-language-180987475/
These talented craftspeople specialized in ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, stonemasonry, coffin decorating and other art formshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-new-exhibition-explores-the-lives-of-ancient-egyptian-makers-180987477/
Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate change and tackle other challengeshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/architects-of-new-kind-of-molecular-structure-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-180987481/
Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for design helphttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/studying-clever-creases-in-nature-may-inspire-foldable-structures-for-drones-and-robots-180987480/
"The Luncheon on the Grass" caused a stir when it made its debut in 1863. A century and a half later, students defended the French artist against obscenity chargeshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paris-museum-puts-edouard-manet-on-mock-trial-for-painting-scandalous-scene-nude-woman-180987478/
The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the complicated legacy of their evacuationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-adoptee-discovered-a-trove-of-documents-in-a-nuns-basement-the-rare-vietnam-warrecords-rewrite-the-story-of-operation-babylift-180987435/
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/national-guard-governors.html
Oregon officials say the atmosphere outside an ICE building that has drawn daily demonstrations since June has grown worse since the president’s threats.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-portland-troops.html
Officials say that Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, of Melbourne, Fla., had intentionally set a fire that rekindled a week later into a devastating blaze that killed 12 people.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/los-angeles-palisades-fire-arrest.html
A lawyer for the former F.B.I. director said he would accuse the Justice Department of malicious and selective prosecution and contend that a U.S. attorney was illegally appointed.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/comey-legal-challenges-explained.html
The wife of Senator Edward Kennedy for a quarter of a century, she both basked and struggled in the reflected glare of a political family in the spotlight.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/joan-kennedy-dead.html
As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/key-democrats-ending-shutdown.html
A pair of Democratic senators confronted the Republican speaker of the House over his refusal to swear in a colleague during the shutdown.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/mike-johnson-spat-democrats-shutdown-epstein.html