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In today’s politics roundtable, we break down the week’s biggest stories with two columnists from opposite sides of the aisle. We touch on topics near and far.

Democrats have demanded that the subsidies, first put in place in 2021 and extended a year later, be extended again.

Geoff Freeman from the U.S. Travel Association warns of longer TSA lines and flight issues if the shutdown continues.

Roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furloughed, some potentially fired by the Trump administration.

The failure of Congress to keep the government open means that hundreds of thousands of federal workers could be furloughed or laid off.

The Cuban government said Friday that Shakur died Thursday in Havana due to “health conditions and advanced age.”

Antifa, short for “anti-fascists,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity.

The Palestinian activist remains protected from detention or deportation under a separate judicial order in his civil rights case in New Jersey, which remains ongoing.

Demands to fire people for their opinion have ramped up after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who talked a lot about the importance of open debate.

A judge shut down an attempt to use a 9/11-era New York terrorism law in the case against Mangione. If that sounds like an unusual use of a terrorism law, it wasn’t a first.

Authorities in Utah will seek the death penalty against a 22-year-old man charged in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on a college campus.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox told a news conference that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson had become “more political” in the run-up to the shooting.

High school teachers in Pennsylvania said some students stopped showing up in the spring, fearful they would be arrested on campus.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a sexually suggestive 50th birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly signed by President Donald Trump.

The House has rejected a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey.