Friday, October 2, 2026
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution…
Democratic senators accuse Trump administration of worsening childcare crisis
“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unlawfully froze program funding for grantees mere weeks after President Trump took office – which forced some Head Start programs to temporarily close and left thousands of the country’s most vulnerable families’ child care with uncertainty – and withheld funding from grantees until they complied with the administration’s rigid requirements,” the letter says…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/childcare-crisis-trump-administration
Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors
Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentagon defense board raises conflict-of-interest concerns…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/hegseth-musk-warfare-taskforce
With Republicans in trouble, Trump gives himself an A+ ‘on everything’ - POLITICO
Trump has twice this week appeared to blame his own team for failing to communicate all the positives he’s achieved since taking office nearly two years ago. On Thursday, he added that “the press isn’t treating us fairly.”
But with stubbornly persistent inflation, gas above $4.40 a gallon and mortgage rates above 7%, even Republicans in ruby-red states are facing headwinds that could blow them from office…
Top Democratic appropriator wants White House to pay for airing 'propaganda' - Live Updates - POLITICO
Sen. Patty Murray is proposing to dock the Office of Management and Budget for violations…
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/10/01/congress/penalties-for-propaganda-ads-01103825
Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space : NPR
"The sun puts out almost all of the power in our solar system. All of the other power sources that humanity has tapped into are just a tiny fraction of a percent," said Travis Beals, senior director and lead of Project Suncatcher. "So in some sense, this project is about tapping into the best way to use solar power to run AI compute."…
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5983697/project-suncatcher-google-ai-data-center-space
Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as his economic approval hits new low, AP-NORC poll shows | PBS News
"Our president, I thought, was going to help the country, and so far he has not really seemed to have done that with the economy or in general. He's not really done what I was hoping he would," said Gault. "He said, 'Make America Great Again.' And I have not seen him do that."…
Trump officials abandon effort to investigate election threats, experts warn
The first day after Pam Bondi won Senate confirmation as attorney general, she eliminated the FBI’s foreign influence taskforce, which had been investigating influence campaigns waged by China, Russia and other adversaries.
Administration leaders fired or reassigned personnel working on foreign election interference at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa). They also defunded Cisa’s training program for local officials to monitor and coordinate threats through the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/trump-us-election-threats
Israeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian family
More than 100 militant settlers overwhelmed Israeli security forces early on Tuesday to attack a Palestinian family as they attempted to reclaim their homes which had been seized by settlers in the West Bank village of Jalud. Three Israeli security officials were injured and houses were set on fire…
Disability rights upended by Trump DOJ : NPR
For nearly 50 years, the federal government has said people with disabilities should live, work and learn in the most integrated setting possible rather than be segregated in institutions like nursing homes.
The Trump administration just took its most concrete step yet to reverse that position…
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5981375/integration-mandate-disabilities-reversed-trump
Judge permanently tosses Trump administration’s reflecting pool vandalism prosecution - POLITICO
The order bars the administration from charging a man again over damages to the pool in Washington…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/01/reflecting-pool-vandalism-case-dismissed-01103477
Vance’s red-state swing hits Florida as polls tighten in Sunshine State - POLITICO
Democrats have overperformed in recent special elections in Florida and made gains with independent and even Republican voters. Florida is facing many of the same political headwinds as the rest of the U.S., including inflation and ongoing frustrations with gas prices due to the war in Iran — as well as backlash over mass deportations from members of its large immigrant population.
Vance, who is one of the White House’s top midterm surrogates and has embarked on a red-state swing, pressed the base assembled at an aircraft hangar and events venue to turn out in November to “send a message to the far-left radicals.” He accused Democrats of wanting to make Florida “less free, less safe and more poor.” …
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/01/vance-florida-campaign-rally-01103866
Why Trump’s Crypto Business Wants to Become a Bank – Mother Jones
Sen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/trump-world-liberty-financial-bank/
High diesel costs squeeze Michigan corn and soybean farmers
“If we can market it at a little higher price, maybe we can offset some of those expensive diesel costs, but as of right now until we get the crop off … and see what we have on the field, it’s still an unknown,” said Rupprecht…
Red States Just Asked the Supreme Court to Kill Abortion Shield Laws – Mother Jones
“It’s painfully obvious that anti-abortion extremists are targeting shield laws because they are working.”…
In Sworn Deposition, Rep. Max Miller Was Silent on Staircase Assault Allegation – Mother Jones
During a sworn deposition on Monday, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) declined to answer repeated questions from one of his ex-wife’s lawyers about whether he pushed a girl down a staircase during high school…
Judge rules Trump can’t fire court-appointed prosecutors - POLITICO
“The president cannot unilaterally fire a United States attorney appointed by the district court,” U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian said in a ruling from the bench. Doing so, Bastian said, “would upend the framework created by the Constitution and the statutes, which together balance the president’s right to appoint and the Senate’s right to confirm.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/01/us-attorneys-trump-firing-ruling
A super El Niño is here, but NOAA is scaling back research : NPR
The Trump administration is also trying to eliminate NOAA's research office, the primary scientific arm that studies events like El Niño, as part of that budget process. Since Trump began his second term, NOAA has lost more than 2,000 staff, largely due to retirements and firings…
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5976905/super-el-nino-research-noaa-floods
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