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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 35 articles How did Congress avoid a government shutdown? |  | |
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Congress approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline; Biden expected to sign.
NBC News (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 76% • 2 min read
The House voted 254-175 to advance the measure. Just hours earlier, the Senate voted 65-35 — a display of bipartisanship in both chambers. Without a spending bill, the federal government faced a shutdown beginning Friday. The bill approved by Congress would keep the government open through Dec. 3.
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The Treasury Department estimates that the debt limit will be hit on Oct. 18, according to a letter Secretary Janet Yellen sent to Pelosi on Tuesday. The Senate's new spending bill does not include the debt limit increase.
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The House is bracing for a highly anticipated vote on an infrastructure bill that doesn't appear to have the support it needs to pass. The holdup is the result of a standoff between Democratic moderates, who want to de-link the two measures and pass the $550 billion infrastructure bill quickly, and progressive lawmakers, who are holding it up because they don't trust centrists to support the bigger one without the smaller one.
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Congress passes government funding bill, averting shutdown without raising debt ceiling.
National Review (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 69% • 2 min read - Top long-read
Abolish the debt ceiling before it commits austerity again.
Economic Policy Institute (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 74% • 8 min read
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| | #2 in U.S. News • 6 articles How will upcoming U.S. Postal Service delays affect Americans? | 
Beginning Oct. 1, the Postal Service will implement new service standards for its first-class mail and packages, lengthening deli...
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| | YESTERDAY'S POLL Do you agree with YouTube's decision to remove vaccine misinformation? 832 votes, 153 comments Context: YouTube bans all vaccine misinformation. HIGHLIGHTED COMMENTS " Yes - We should definitely be free to discuss side effects and efficacy of any medical therapy in an open forum. I think, however, it gets pushed to a dangerous level when people state patent falsehoods about vaccines or even western medicine in general that have zero basis for truth. For example, mRNA vaccines do no magnetize people, are not gene therapy, do not cause infertility, do not make you shed spike protein for months, do not cause a prion-like disease, etc." " No - People need to be their own arbiters of truth, and the line between misinformation and differing viewpoints ca..." " Unsure - As a private company, YouTube has the right to do what they want with their pla..." | | | #1 in World News • 15 articles What caused a prison riot in Ecuador that left dozens dead? |
The violence erupted around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday as gangs exchanged gunfire and explosives in their battle for control of one of the units in the main prison in Guayaquil...
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| | #2 in World News • 10 articles What did leaders of Russia and Turkey discuss at their closed-door summit? |
Before the meeting, the Russian media assumed that the main topic would be Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sept. 25 that Russian President Vl...
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| | #1 in Health News • 16 articles How is the NBA encouraging Covid-19 vaccination among players? |
While the NBA has not mandated the vaccine itself, cities that require the vaccine to enter public spaces will not allow unvaccinated players inside the baske...
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