Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report to work on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation.

“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”

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When President Trump and Vice President JD Vance met at the White House a week ago with Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, they heard a strong defense of Ukraine.

Bartholomew, considered first among equals among Orthodox patriarchs, is strongly pro-Ukraine and in 2019 recognized an independent Orthodox church there. That fueled a breach with the Russian Orthodox Church, which claims Ukraine as part of its church territory and which strongly supports the Russian war effort.

Bartholomew said after his Sept. 15 meeting with Trump that he spoke about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and “about the thousands of victims, about the destruction, about the kidnapped children, about all these tragic events that wound the conscience of humanity,” according to the Orthodox Observer website.

Bartholomew also met with Zelenskyy at the U.N. on Monday in a show of support.

Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News that no ICE agents were injured.

“We believe he was shooting at law enforcement and detainees from an apartment building,” McLaughlin said. ”Detainees were among the victims of the shooting.”

The shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, federal authorities said.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons confirmed the shooting during an interview on CNN on Wednesday and said the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“It could be employees, it could be civilians that were visiting the facility, it could be detainees,” Lyons said of those who were shot. “At this point, we’re still working through that.”

Two people were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds, and a third person died at the scene after the shooting, Dallas police spokesperson Officer Jonathan E. Maner said in an email.

Officers responded to a call to assist an officer on North Stemmons Freeway around 6:40 a.m. Wednesday and the preliminary investigation determined that a person opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building, Maner said. The investigation is ongoing and a briefing was expected later in the day.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s comments Wednesday at the U.N. marked the first time he’s spoken in a global forum since the 12-day Israel-Iran war over the summer that saw the assassination of many of the Islamic Republic’s highest military and political leaders.

Pezeshkian is in New York as series of crippling U.N. sanctions loom over Tehran if it doesn’t make a deal with European leaders by Saturday. But before even landing in New York, any diplomatic efforts by Pezeshkian and Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi were overshadowed when the country’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei ,rejected any direct nuclear talks with the U.S.

The comments also come as satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press show Iran has begun rebuilding targeted missile-production sites. A key component is likely still missing — the large mixers needed to produce solid fuel for the weapons.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comments to at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday came a day after he met with President Trump, who expressed support for Ukraine’s efforts and criticized Russia.

Trump said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions to end the war.

Zelenskyy called on the international community to act against Russia now, asserting that Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe.

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About 4 in 10, 37%, of U.S. adults approve of the way Trump is handling the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, down slightly from the 44% who approved in March, according to the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Slightly fewer Republicans approve of how Trump is handling the conflict — 72%, compared with 82% of Republicans who approved of the way Trump was handling the issue in March. Democrats are also slightly less likely to approve: 9% now, down from 14% in March.

Despite this, Trump’s approval on foreign policy has been steady. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve, in line with April.

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Only about 7 in 10 Republicans approve of Trump’s approach to trade negotiations with other countries and health care — marking the lowest issue ratings among his base, according to the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Americans overall aren’t thrilled about how he’s handling these issues, either. Only about one-third of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling either trade negotiations with other countries or health care. These have been steadily low in recent AP-NORC polls but roughly track with Trump’s overall approval. They were also similarly low in his first term.

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” when it comes to imposing new tariffs on other countries. That includes about 9 in 10 Democrats but also roughly 6 in 10 independents and 3 in 10 Republicans. Very few Americans, including Republicans, want Trump to go further on imposing tariffs.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on social media site X on Wednesday morning that the U.S. is ready to repurchase Argentina’s debt bonds, is in negotiations with Argentinian officials for a $20 billion swap line with the country’s central bank and is undergoing other actions to bolster Argentina’s economy in the midst of severe volatility in the country’s financial markets.

This comes after President Trump gave libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei his “full backing and endorsement” Tuesday. Argentina at the end of October heads into crucial congressional midterms.

Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have criticized the move as a bailout for a close personal friend of Trump.

The economy is often a fraught point for presidents, and there are indications that Americans continue to be concerned about the country’s economic state, according to the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Just 37% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s handling of the economy. That’s down slightly from August, when 43% approved, but broadly in line with his overall approval.

The economy is a particularly weak issue for Trump among independents. Only about 2 in 10 independents approve of how Trump is handling the economy, much lower than the share who approve of his handling of border security and crime.

In Trump’s first term, closer to half of U.S. adults approved of his handling of the economy. This height of his success on this issue came at the beginning of 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked an economic downturn.

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Clinton dealt with Russian President Vladimir Putin when she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.

She was asked about Trump's turnabout during a wide-ranging interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said, “I welcomed what the president said.”

Usually a Trump critic, Clinton said his comments suggested he’s “coming to grips” with the fact that Putin doesn’t respond to rhetoric.

“He only responds to strength,” she said.

Trump said Tuesday he now believes Ukraine can win back all the territory it has lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from his past calls for Ukraine to concede the land to end the war.

Trump has turned border security into a strength of his second term, a sharp reversal from his first term in office.

Most Americans approve of Trump’s approach to border security. He gets higher marks on that than on his handling of the presidency overall or other issues that had previously been top strengths, including immigration and crime. This has also emerged as a unique strength of his second term. Only about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approved of Trump’s approach to border security in 2019, during which time Trump was focused on securing funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

His approval on immigration is slightly lower than it was early in his second term, but it remains a bit higher than his overall job approval.

President Trump’s second-term strengths look different from his first, according to new polling.

Once strengthened by economic issues, Trump’s approval is now relatively low on the economy — and he’s leaning on his stronger issues of crime, border security and immigration. Concerns about the economy and immigration helped propel him to the White House, but polling over the past year shows Americans’ faith in the Republican president’s handling of the economy is low — particularly among independents — and his approval on immigration has fallen slightly.

Now, Trump’s strongest issues are border security and crime, but there were signs of potential weakness on crime in the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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Ukrainians were cautious Wednesday in their response to a surprise pivot in U.S. President Donald Trump’s views on their prospects for defeating Russia’s invasion, after he said they could win the three-year war and retake land captured by Moscow.

Some Ukrainians expressed hope that Trump’s words would be backed up by concrete support for Ukraine in Washington, while others were wary about the American president’s unpredictability.

Russian officials, meanwhile, said developments on the battlefield showed Ukraine is unable to reclaim the occupied territory and dismissed Trump’s description of Russia as a “paper tiger.”

“Russia isn’t a tiger, it’s more associated with a bear,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “There are no paper bears. Russia is a real bear.”

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