#government-shutdowns

#government-shutdowns

The Federal Trade Commission, like other federal agencies, posted a simple notice on its website at the start of fiscal 2026: "The FTC is closed as of midnight Wednesday, October 1, 2025, due to the lapse in government funding." What the notice did not say was that the announcement came during the year of a grim anniversary for the FTC: Forty-five years ago, it became the first government agency ever to shut down due to a lack of appropriations.

Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity. In its Q3 2025 internet disruption summary, the content delivery network said it observed "a wide variety of known causes" for global outages between July and September - from government-directed shutdowns in Sudan, Syria, and Iraq to cable cuts in Angola, Haiti, and the United Arab Emirates, along with power failures, cyberattacks, and natural disasters.

No, I'm not going to switch, Fetterman told her. He then said he will never turn to incendiary language, like some left-wingers have by comparing President Donald Trump and Republican voters in general to Nazis. If you want a Democrat that's going to call people Nazis or fascists or all these kinds of things, well, I'm not going to be that guy. Independent thinking and views wherever I happen to believe the truth [is], regardless if it's the Republican or the Democratic voice.