With no end in sight to the partial government shutdown that began 10 days ago, White House budget director Russ Vought announced on X that he has begun executing mass layoffs across federal agencies.

Andreyah Garland, a 44-year-old single mother of three daughters, bought a shotgun in May for protection in the quaint middle-class town of Fishkill, New York. She joined a new and fast-growing local ...