The longest shutdown in U.S. history is ending. Yet Congress’ most onerous government funding work remains unfinished — setting up a potential repeat early next year.

Federal workers will start receiving pay again. National Parks will reopen. Government services that had been curtailed or suspended entirely will resume. Air travel, which had become a nightmare for many Americans, will return to being merely frustrating.

When the House passed legislation to end the longest government shutdown in American history Wednesday night, House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he was "very relieved." That relief was not necessarily felt by the 22 million Americans who are about to see their health insurance premiums soar.

Coverage of violence in Nigeria has exposed sharp partisan divides in media sourcing and framing. Outlets labeled by news bias monitors as having a left lean, such as CNN, The Associated Press and The Washington Post, cited or quoted the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project, which reported only a few hundred Christians killed for their faith since 2020 — data suggesting most violence is indiscriminate. Right-leaning outlets, like Fox News, the New York Post and The Federalist, relied on Christian and Nigerian-based groups such as Open Doors and Intersociety, which reported thousands of targeted Christian deaths. Julie Mastrine, Director of Media Bias Ratings at AllSides, joins Bias Breakdown for an in-depth analysis of just how these newsroom decisions represent bias in the American news landscape. You’ll learn more about how these decisions qualify as “slant” and “omission.” It is a similar trend in other conflicts, from Gaza to Ukraine, where compet…

President Donald Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday night the United States doesn’t have workers with “certain talents” to fill jobs needed domestically, defending the H1-B skilled worker visa program. Pressed by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on whether his administration would reduce H1-B visas over concerns it would depress wages for American workers, Trump told Ingraham, “I agree — but you also do have to bring in talent.”...