‘Cruelty is the point’: Trump uses shutdown as a lever for mass firings, cuts to social programmes
• Oct 2, 2025, 10:04 AM
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US President Donald Trump has threatened to use the first government shutdown since 2019 to push through mass firings and slash social programmes unless Democrats give up their demands for health care funding. “The cruelty is the point,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said.
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Music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs sentenced to over 4 years in prostitution case
• 2:48 PM
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Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced Friday (October 3) to four years and two months in federal prison after being convicted of organising drug-fueled, sometimes violent sex parties involving paid sex workers – a dramatic fall from grace for one of hip-hop's
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Government funding vote fails again in US Senate
• 9:57 AM
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Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown faded Friday (October 3) as Democrats refused to budge in a Senate vote and President Donald Trump readied plans to unleash layoffs and cuts across the federal government.
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