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In a social media post, Donald Trump proposed redirecting the hundreds of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies from the big, bad insurance companies, to individuals.

Earlier, America's Supreme Court made a temporary ruling to allow the Trump administration

not to fully fund food assistance benefits after a lower court had told it to pay for the program.

The Senate is due to reconvene on Saturday amid the longest government shutdown in American history.

Russia carried out a massive overnight bombardment across Ukraine, firing more than 450 drones and 45 missiles.

According to Volodymy Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, the attack killed at least three

people and damaged energy infrastructure across the Kyiv, Pultava and Kharkiv regions.

Ukraine's state power firm said its generating capacity had fallen to zero.

American tech stocks suffered their worst weeks since April amid concerns over a possible

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