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Appeals court rules Trump administration cannot avoid paying SNAP
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled late Sunday that the Trump administration can be forced to pay full food ... Read More
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Supreme Court will hear case on post-Election Day ballot counting
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it would hear arguments in a case challenging a Mississippi state law allowing the state to count ballots in federal elections that arrive after Election Day.
Monday’s order ...Read more
SNAP benefits end, and needy residents overwhelm Central Florida food banks
ORLANDO, Fla. — Shirley Laureano, a mother to two young children, relies on $700 a month in federal food stamp money to help buy her family’s groceries as her job at a tea house doesn’t pay enough to cover all her ...Read more
Trump pardons 18 co-defendants in Georgia election case, but it won't void state charges
ATLANTA — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping set of preemptive pardons that includes all 18 of his co-defendants in the Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case, a senior Justice Department aide said ...Read more
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and many Jan. 6 allies
President Donald Trump has issued federal pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a long list of allies who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The late-night ...Read more
BBC apologizes as chiefs quit over editing of Trump speech
LONDON — The BBC apologized for a misleading edit of remarks by President Donald Trump that featured in a documentary last year, the latest scandal to raise questions about the future of Britain’s national broadcaster....Read more
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani tapping ex-de Blasio deputy Dean Fuleihan as top City Hall aide
NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has decided to appoint de Blasio administration alum Dean Fuleihan as his top City Hall aide, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Mamdani was expected to formally ...Read more
Trump pardons supporters who tried to reverse his 2020 Michigan loss
LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 20 people who contributed to the push to overturn his loss in Michigan's 2020 election.
Late Sunday night, Ed Martin, who's working as the Republican ...Read more
Supreme Court dismisses long-shot challenge to right to marry for same-sex couples
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed without comment a long-shot challenge to the constitutional right to marry for same-sex couples.
The justices turned away an appeal petition from Kim Davis, a former ...Read more
In the West Bank's last Christian village, faith, fear and an uncertain future
TAYBEH, West Bank — "Come visit Taybeh," begins the brochure touting the touristic attractions here, the last entirely Palestinian Christian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Though it counts Jesus among its ...Read more
Wielding obscure budget tools, Trump's 'reaper' Vought sows turmoil in public health
When President Donald Trump posted a satirical music video on social media in early October depicting his budget director, Russell Vought, as the Grim Reaper lording over Democrats in Congress, public health workers ...Read more
What happens when you donate your brain to science?
On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible even to the naked eye ...Read more
'A whole new outlook on life': These KY groups help people not return to prison
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Cathy Stewart was imprisoned at the state and local level for a drunk driving crash she caused that severely injured a man and his son in 2018.
The 47-year-old was previously in and out of rehab, on the ...Read more
A new, potent street drug is causing severe withdrawal, and Philly doctors are scrambling to respond
PHILADELPHIA -- Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking.
A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce the familiar rush ...Read more
Amid 'a transparency desert,' states look likely to blow past Colorado River deadline. What's next?
Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward a deadline imposed by federal authorities, with little ...Read more
White House calls this 9/11-era fund 'wasteful.' Red and blue states rely on it.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California...Read more
Democratic blowouts bode well for Shapiro in 2026, but GOP sees path for competitive governor's race
When Stacy Garrity rallied supporters in McCandless in late September, she acknowledged it "won't be easy" to oust Gov. Josh Shapiro.
The Republican state treasurer's uphill battle next year against a widely popular ...Read more
Minnesota cities, counties fund food aid after SNAP delays
Several Minnesota cities and counties are giving money to help local food shelves cover growing demand after federal food assistance guidelines have flip-flopped several times in the last week.
About 440,000 Minnesotans ...Read more
Trump says Americans will receive $2,000 tariff dividend
President Trump said Sunday that most Americans would receive a $2,000 dividend payment as a result of his administration's tariffs levied against foreign countries.
Trump announced the potential payments on his Truth ...Read more
Typhoons and other climate threats could cost Alaska billions. After Halong, advocates say it's time to act.
After a remnant typhoon hammered Indigenous communities in Western Alaska last month, the state's elected leaders have been fielding questions about how to protect the region that faces growing threats from storms as the ...Read more
US offers to back Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah, end impasse
The U.S. is ready to back Lebanon’s army to help implement a plan to disarm militant groups, which was announced in August but has yet to make tangible progress amid a spat with the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah.
The...Read more
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