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Speaker Johnson says Democrats are ‘not serious’ about negotiating end to shutdown: Full interview

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) joins Meet the Press as lawmakers leave Washington with no end to the government shutdown in sight.



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Oct. 6, 2025, 5:35 AM EDTBy Mithil Aggarwal and Larissa GaoChinese rescuers were on Monday rushing to evacuate hundreds of hikers stranded on the eastern slope of the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, after heavy snowfall blanketed campsites over the weekend.Nearly 350 hikers have already traveled to safety at a rendezvous point in the small township of Qudang, according to state broadcaster CCTV, with rescuers also in contact with the remaining over 200 hikers who “will gradually arrive at the rendezvous point.”Local news outlets had initially reported that nearly 1,000 people had been affected by the blizzard. Local rescue officials were not immediately available for comment on the discrepancy in numbers.No casualties were reported, according to local media. Trekkers leaving their campsite as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummeled the Himalayas on Sunday.Geshuang Chen / via Reuters“About one-third into the trek, it began to rain and the rain kept getting heavier,” Chen Geshuang, a 28-year-old astrophotographer who began climbing Saturday afternoon but decided to retreat Sunday, told NBC News in an online video interview. “Later, it turned into sleet, and eventually a full-on blizzard.”Some hikers shoveled snow out of their tents amid the blizzard, while others waded in a line through the snowstorm in poor visibility, social media videos verified by NBC News showed.The hikers had been trapped at nearly 16,000 feet, according to a report in Jimu News, which added that local villagers and rescue teams had been deployed to clear the roads blocked by snow. Everest Base Camp.Yulia Y / Getty ImagesAt 29,000 feet, Mount Everest is considered the world’s tallest mountain when measured from sea level.The unusually intense snowfall began Friday night and continued through Saturday in the Gama Valley of Tingri County in the autonomous region of Tibet, “disrupting the itineraries of some tourists hiking in the area,” CCTV said.Within hours, some of Chen’s team were exhibiting signs of mild hypothermia and cold stress, she said. By Saturday night, the storm intensified with lightning almost every minute. “It was a nerve-wracking night,” she said. “When we woke up this morning, the snow was extremely deep— about one meter, reaching up to our thighs.”The group decided to retreat, arriving at the foot of the mountain Sunday evening. Neighboring Nepal was also hit with heavy rainfall, where at least 44 people were killed from landslides and floods. The severe weather event occurred as more than 299 million people were expected to travel regionally on Sunday due to a weeklong national holiday that included China’s National Day last week and the Mid-Autumn Festival on Monday, CCTV said in a separate report.Ticket sales and entry to the Everest Scenic Area was suspended late Saturday, according to notices on the official WeChat accounts of the local Tingri County Tourism Company.Mount Everest is called Mount Qomolangma in Chinese, and it stretches along the border of Tibet and Nepal, and climbers from both countries attempt to scale the peak along different slopes.While the Nepalese side has seen a boom in Everest-related tourism and significant investment, the Tibetan side is especially remote. Mithil AggarwalMithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.Larissa GaoLarissa Gao is an associate social newsgathering reporter based in London.Reuters and Peter Guo contributed.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 30, 2025, 1:15 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 31, 2025, 12:05 PM EDTBy Jane C. TimmOhio Republican and Democratic lawmakers unanimously approved a new congressional map that would give a slight, but not overwhelming, boost to the GOP ahead of next year’s midterm elections.At a meeting Friday morning, members of the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission approved the proposed map, which was released on Thursday as part of an unexpected deal. The map shifted two Democratic-held districts to the right and one to the left while also maintaining 10 districts that favor Republicans and two that are Democratic strongholds. Punchbowl News was first to report details of the deal.Suzan DelBene, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said “this is not a fair map for Ohio voters,” but praised Democratic legislators for “negotiating to prevent an even more egregious gerrymander.”“This compromise keeps us on the path to taking back the House Majority and we’ll continue to win across Ohio because voters know it’s House Democrats who are fighting for them,” DelBene said in a statement. The new map came as a surprise to many observers. Democrats largely expected the constitutionally mandated redistricting commission to reach a stalemate, as it did in 2021. If the commission failed to settle on a new map ahead of the 2026 elections, responsibility for setting congressional boundaries would have fallen back to the Republican-controlled Legislature, which could have drawn an aggressively gerrymandered map. If that happened, Democrats had threatened to pursue a statewide referendum that could have resulted in voters blocking the map from going into effect.The map won’t be subject to a referendum, while Democrats avoided the worst-case scenario map. In negotiations, a source familiar with the negotiations said, Republicans showed Democrats a map that had the GOP controlling 13 of the state’s 15 districts. A voter referendum on such a map would have required Democrats to gather nearly 250,000 signatures in just 90 days, a difficult feat under any scenario, let alone during the holidays and Ohio’s winter months. Lawmakers on the redistricting commission faced some protests at Friday’s meeting. “Shame, shame on you all,” said members of the public who attended the meeting to offer comment. “You sold us out!”Ohio is represented in Congress by 10 Republicans and five Democrats. Democratic Reps. Greg Landsman and Marcy Kaptur would face more competitive districts under the new map, while Rep. Emilia Sykes’ district would become slightly more Democratic.After the bipartisan commission approved the map Friday, Kaptur and Sykes said they would run for re-election under the news district lines.”Let the Columbus politicians make their self-serving maps and play musical chairs, I will fight on for the people and ask the voters for their support next year,” Kaptur said in a post on X.Under the current lines, the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter rated Kaptur’s and Sykes’ seats as “toss ups” and Landman’s as “likely Democratic.”The emergence of Ohio’s new map proposal comes amid an unusually aggressive mid-decade redistricting cycle, kicked off by President Donald Trump, who has asked Republican-led states to draw new maps in an effort to shore up the party’s narrow U.S. House majority. Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have all drawn maps boosting Republicans, while California Democrats are asking voters to approve new district lines next week. Virginia Democrats took the first major step this week towards modifying their redistricting commission to allow them to redraw their state’s map next year, while Indiana GOP lawmakers are expected to soon consider a redistricting effort. Other states, including Louisiana, await a Supreme Court ruling they hope could open the door to redrawing their congressional maps next year, too.Jane C. TimmJane C. Timm is a senior reporter for NBC News.
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