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President Donald Trump assembles his Cabinet as the government shutdown continues and a peace deal in Gaza takes shape, candidates in the New Jersey governor’s race clash, and wait times for emergency rooms have exploded nationwide. It’s Friday, October 10, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Morning Wire is available on video! You can watch today’s episode here: If you would rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below: Trump Assembles Cabinet  Topline: President Trump assembled his Cabinet on Thursday as the government shutdown entered its ninth day, and as his Middle East peace proposal passed a major hurdle. Columbus Day returns: At the top of Thursday’s meeting, Trump signed an executive order to bring back Columbus Day on October 13. “Columbus Day, we’re back. We’re back, Italians,” the president said. Middle East peace: According to the president, the rest of the hostages still alive in Gaza, 20 in all, should be returned to Israel on either Monday or Tuesday. The hostage crisis has been a major focus of the administration, and of Israel, which has been plastered with posters of the hostages emblazoned with the call to “Bring Them Home Now” since the war began. Yellow ribbons to represent the hostages, dead and alive, are more common in Israel than kippahs. That shows why Trump has been invited to speak in front of the Knesset. It’s a rare privilege. The last U.S. president to receive the honor was George Bush in 2008. Shutdown: President Trump seems intent on hammering Democrats over the shutdown, not just rhetorically but with cuts to what the president calls “Democrat programs.” “We’ll be making cuts that will be permanent, and we’re only gonna cut Democrat programs,” the president said at Thursday’s meeting. “They wanted to do this, so they’ll get a little taste of their own medicine.” Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout!   NJ Governor’s Race A Toss-Up Topline: Less than four weeks from Election Day, the New Jersey gubernatorial election is a toss-up, with Republican Jack Ciattarelli surging in the polls. Ciattarelli spoke to Morning Wire about his efforts to turn deep-blue New Jersey red this November. (The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.) Morning Wire: A lot of folks who maybe don’t follow state politics as closely hear that there is an exceedingly close race in New Jersey. And they might be surprised by that, thinking of the history of New Jersey as a more blue state. Four months ago, polls were showing you trailing by more than 20 points. This week, you are essentially tied in every poll that is coming out. What changed over the course of this election? Ciattarelli: People want change across the state. They’re very frustrated with Phil Murphy’s failed policies – and they have failed us. The taxes, they’ve increased every single year he’s been in office. The exorbitant spending in our state government, I mean, our state budget’s gone from $36 billion to almost $60 billion, a 64% increase. Housing, we’ve got an overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities, but yet an acute housing shortage in our urban areas. Public safety has gone, you know, we don’t have public safety in Jersey. Nonviolent crime has spiked because we don’t let our local police do their job. The break-ins, the car thefts, the flash mobs, public education – people aren’t happy with what’s going on there, and we’ve slipped from two to 12 on an actual report card. Your electricity bill is going through the roof. These are all things that people are really pissed off about, and when they’re pissed, they want change.  Morning Wire: A lot of Republicans who have success at the state level in blue states take a more moderate approach. I’m thinking of the, you know, Charlie Bakers or Larry Hogans of the world, considered more moderate, keeping their distance from Donald Trump. You have not shied away from the president, it seems. He’s endorsed you. He said that you’re “all in on the MAGA movement.” And that is unique in a blue state. Walk us through that relationship with the president. Ciattarelli: All my opponent wants to talk about is Trump because of her disdain for Trump. I mean, her whole campaign is based on a stack of lies about me, disdain for Trump, and she can fly a helicopter. Is that going to fix New Jersey? And by the way, what does Donald Trump have to do with our property taxes? What does he have to do with public safety in this state, public education, your monthly electric bill, overdevelopment in our suburban communities? He’s got nothing to do with that. The party that’s controlled Trenton for the last 25 years has everything to do with that. So listen, I think that you can be friends with the president and support his policies while making it clear that you’re all about fixing New Jersey.  Morning Wire: If elected, what sort of approach would you take when it comes to working with federal agencies like ICE, DEA, ATF operating within your state? We’ve seen a number of attempts to handicap them. How would you approach those agencies? Ciattarelli: Number one, there will be no sanctuary cities in New Jersey. When I’m governor, we will not be a sanctuary state. I’m reversing that policy on day one. I can do that by executive order. And I’m never going to tell a local mayor or police chief they can’t work in partnership with a federal agency to keep their community safe. If that’s what they want to do, that’s a local decision. And I would support it 100% whatever it is that the mayor and police chief decide to do to keep their community safe. But the other thing I have to do is get rid of cashless bail. Cashless bail in New Jersey has created a professional criminal who’s learned how to game the system. And you talk to your local cops, arrest, release, repeat is real. And it’s demoralizing to our local cops to have to arrest the same person over and over again.  ER Wait Times Explode Topline: For the last decade, emergency room wait times have continued to rise, threatening Americans’ overall health. ER wait times started to increase around 2012, spiked during the pandemic, and are now higher than ever. A new study published in the journal Health Affairs looked at data from 46 million emergency visits across all 50 states since 2017. It found a national increase in wait times, with the average being over four hours, and 5% of patients waiting more than 24 hours to get assistance. Notably, this doesn’t even factor in people leaving the ER before they get care, commonly referred to as the “abandonment” rate. Why? The nursing shortage is certainly a factor. But according to Niklas Kleinworth from the Paragon Health Institute, one of the major factors is that, since expansion under Obamacare, there is no financial incentive for many people to wait to see their physician when they can go to the ER and receive same-day care:  “We’ve seen that a lot of the financial incentives for people to take care of themselves and go see their regular physician haven’t come to fruition,”  Kleinworth told Morning Wire. “And so now, people are going to the emergency room to get routine care instead.” Another issue is the increased rate of rural hospital closings. Kleinworth said programs coming out of Washington actually “encourage consolidation” – and we’re seeing large urban hospitals buy up small rural hospitals to eat up incentives meant for rural areas. The White House has also blamed long ER wait times on illegal aliens.  

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News What to Watch What to Watch and Read This Weekend: The Dark Crystal Returns to Theaters and Is Weirder Than You Remember Plus: The Zen of Poptimism and Caprica, the origin story no one asked for By Molly Templeton | Published on October 10, 2025 Photo: Universal Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Universal Pictures New Yorkers, I hope you polished your armor and got your good boots on for the marathon of New York Comic Con. May the swag be good and the con crud be mild. The rest of us may or may not be following along with news from NYCC—but surely that can’t take up your whole weekend? Maybe you want to decompress with a movie or remember a time seemingly full of mid-budget SF series? Call your reps, get a nice warm beverage, and settle in. The leaves are starting to fall. The Dark Crystal in a Big Dark Room At this point, it feels like there’s a beloved old movie back in theaters every five minutes. If it isn’t Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Battle Royale (also returning to theaters this weekend), it’s the 400th return of any given Studio Ghibli movie (not that I would ever complain about this phenomenon). This particular weekend, children of the ’80s and beyond can re-traumatize themselves with The Dark Crystal, which is possibly even weirder than you remember. Written by David Odell from a story by creature master Jim Henson, who co-directed the film along with Frank Oz, the movie follows a pair of Gelflings as they save the world from the greedy Skeksis. The story is gorgeous and strange and sometimes downright scary (giant! spider! crab! creatures!) and includes both one of the best fuzzy sidekicks of all time (Fizzgig!) and a line I say all the time for no reason (“Smells like Gelfling!”). If you have never seen it on a large screen, you should—and you can do so on the 12th and 13th, at least in some places. The Last Word (I Hope) on a Music Criticism Bugbear At Slate, the always excellent Carl Wilson has an incredible piece about “poptimism,” a term which I absolutely cannot explain in brief without getting some part of it wrong. (That’s kind of the point of this piece.) Poptimism was a big part of music criticism discourse in the 2000s, and it keeps coming back, an undead creature that’s really just misunderstood. Wilson’s piece sits squarely in the larger continuum of conversations about criticism as a whole—about the way coverage of the arts has been changed by the internet; about the connections between art and technology; about whose voices are heard and whose are dismissed, both artistically and critically. It’s just really, really good, and thorough, and though it is specifically about music criticism, it’s also about art: what “counts” as art; what gets taken seriously and by whom; how people feel and write about art; how all of these things change. Those who follow conversations about “genre” vs. “litfic” will see some similarities and familiar notes, I think.  Caprica: The Origin Story No One Asked For I’m not entirely sure I should admit this, but I have begun rewatching Caprica. I never finished it the first time—the return after the break in its single long season was too rough—and I’m just … curious. Also, I really did like the beginning, which suggests the whole rise of the Cylons began because a couple of bored teenagers got into a monotheistic cult and one of them was also really good at computers. Bringing in young William Adama and giving him a dead sister doesn’t really make sense. Having the Cylons be born of teen arrogance sort of… does. (This isn’t exactly what happens, but it is how it feels at first.) Also, the two key teens, Zoe Graystone (Alessandra Torresani) and Lacey Rand (Magda Apanowicz), are played by actors who look believably young. It’s refreshing! And if you, like me, enjoy recognizing members of the Canadian SFF Hall of Fame, you will have a field day with this series. It’s just complex enough to keep the attention but not so complex you have to closely follow every line of dialogue. It’s kinda just right, even though it’s not great. Sometimes that’s all a person wants, you know? And it’s a lot less of a commitment than rewatching all of Battlestar Galactica. So say we all. Some Very Good (and Very Beloved) Books Turn 10 Years Old This Year On a whim, I was looking at the books that came out 10 years ago, in 2015, and whew: That was a year. The dominating force that is Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series began that May. Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows was September. V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic came out that February, and the brilliant series that would go on to win three Hugos in a row, N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth, began with The Fifth Season that August.  And that’s just for starters! Also published in 2015: An Ember in the Ashes. Between the World and Me. Uprooted. Children of Time. Nimona. Radiance. House of Shattered Wings. Seveneves. Sorcerer to the Crown. And so many more. Do I have a point here, beyond straight-up curiosity about how things come in waves? Mostly it’s that. But it’s also interesting which books do gangbusters from the get-go and which take time to build. (Two of these books—Six of Crows, sort of, and Nimona—became movies, but years later.) I don’t remember 2015 feeling like a particularly wild year for books as it happened; that perspective came later. But also, well, so many of these big books feel like fall books to me: Changing seasons, changing planets, falling empires, the Ice Court plot of Six of Crows, the entire feel of Radiance. You could do worse, if you’re looking for something to read.[end-mark] The post What to Watch and Read This Weekend: The <i>Dark Crystal</i> Returns to Theaters and Is Weirder Than You Remember appeared first on Reactor.

The federal government shutdown has entered its second week just in time for Columbus Day weekend, meaning that travelers can expect airport delays as the Federal Aviation Administration battles staffing shortages. Air traffic controllers won’t receive paychecks during a government shutdown, so some staffers aren’t coming to work. Usually, 5% of delays come from staffing shortages, but the percentage has skyrocketed to 53% during the shutdown, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Republicans say the shutdown has been caused by Senate Democrats’ unwillingness to pass a clean budgetary continuing resolution that doesn’t restore federal funding of health care for illegal immigrants. Duffy encouraged air traffic controllers to come to work, but blamed Democrats for the rise in absenteeism. “This is a lash-out at Democrats for again putting non-Americans ahead of American, hardworking citizens,” Duffy told Fox Business. In 2019, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey labeled the days around Columbus Day as peak travel days. Air traffic controllers started working without pay on Monday. Since then, the FAA has reported delays from a lack of controllers have also been reported at airports in Boston; Burbank, California; Chicago; Denver; Houston; Las Vegas; Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia; and Phoenix. Still, Duffy said his department’s priority will be safety. “The reason you see the delays … is because we will slow down traffic,” he said. “We will stop traffic if we can’t control the airspace safely. Because that’s the No. 1 mission. Flying on time is not the mission. Safety is the mission.” Delays will pressure Democrats to vote to pass the clean continuing resolution, Duffy said. “In one previous shutdown, the shutdown ended because of problems at the airport with traffic delays, and if these delays and cancellations rise,” he said, “that’s going to put even more pressure to get this thing settled and get the shutdown over with.” The post Air Travelers Brace for Columbus Day Weekend Delays Amid Democrat Shutdown appeared first on The Daily Signal.