A common thread running through the controversies of the new fall season of America’s bitter politics is Donald Trump’s attempt to impose unfettered, often unprecedented presidential power on multiple fronts.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Democrats aren't "serious" about negotiating an end to the shutdown, while Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the GOP has gone "radio silent."

Rather than simply furlough employees, as is usually done during any lapse of funds, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said layoffs were “imminent.”

France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country's political crisis.

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France’s new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than 24 hours after naming his government and after less than a month in office, plunging the country into a deep political crisis and leaving French President Emmanuel Macron with few options.

As U.S. markets mull the lengthening government shutdown, the week started with political drama in Japan and France - with the yen and euro falling sharply against the dollar and both gold and the euro/yen exchange rate vaulting to all-time highs.

France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, in a major deepening of France's political crisis that drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.