Get live updates and the latest news on the Trump administration as the government shutdown enters Day 21 and Vice President JD Vance travels to Israel as the administration works to secure the fragile ceasefire with Hamas.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli clashed over the economy, President Donald Trump’s leadership and political divisions as they faced off Sunday night for the opening debate in New Jersey’s high-stakes governor’s race.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also met Mr Trump in Washington DC on this morning. During the meeting he dropped an F-bomb on Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, after the US military took two prisoners during a strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.

The Democrats and Republicans are still deadlocked as the Senate failed to muster enough votes for a ninth time on the House-passed Republican bill

Nigel Farage issued a fresh warning over the Chagos Islands deal ahead of its latest Commons hurdle today. The Reform UK leader raised fears over whether the agreement to cede sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius would be "selling us out to China".

Religion focuses on the unknown and the unseen. While religion has been a tremendous force for good, it has also poisoned politics and given rise to extremists who target “the other.” I remember first hearing John Lennon’s song “Imagine” in college — envisioning “no heaven,

Nationals leader David Littleproud says he has spoken with Barnaby Joyce after the former deputy prime minister left the door open to joining One Nation. Follow live.