WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled late Sunday that the Trump administration can be forced to pay full food benefits in November, putting the onus on the Supreme Court to decide whether the administration can avoid paying benefits that feed more than 40 million people.

The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of...Read more

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 came after Mississippi asked the justices to overturn a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that found ...Read more

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 bills.

She expected November’s funds from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called SNAP or food stamps...Read more

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 Monday.

The pardons are largely symbolic, because none of the people named is currently charged in federal court. And they have ...Read more

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 announcement clears in advance virtually all the prominent engineers of the so-called Stop the Steal plot to keep Trump in power ...Read more

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.

British Broadcasting Corp. Chairman Samir Shah acknowledged on Monday that the edited footage of Trump’s speech near the...Read more

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 announce the appointment of Fuleihan as his first deputy mayor pick at a press conference in Manhattan on Monday morning, the ...Read more

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 president's pardon attorney, posted a list of dozens of names on X with the words, "Important pardon of alternate electors of 2020....Read more

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 Kentucky county clerk who defied the court's landmark decision in 2015 and repeatedly refused to issue marriage licenses to ...Read more

British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the U.K. national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year.

The BBC on Monday apologized for the editing of the program, which aired in October 2024 and spliced together sections of a ...Read more

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 many visitors over the years, said Khaldoon Hanna, Taybeh's avuncular deputy mayor, these days "no one is coming."

He sighed ...Read more

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 recognized a kernel of truth.

Vought has exerted extraordinary control over government spending this year, usurping congressional ...Read more

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 that provide clues to diseases. It is one of about 2,000 human brains to be processed into Pitt's Neurodegenerative Brain Bank, ...Read more

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 run and pregnant before she ended up in the Franklin County Detention Center.

She held her young daughter for the first time...Read more

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 of the opioids he’d been using on and off since he was a teenager.

And when he entered withdrawal, he started rocking from ...Read more

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 progress to show publicly.

Federal officials gave the seven states in the river basin a deadline that arrives Tuesday to present ...Read more

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.

The Hospital Preparedness Program was created more than two decades ago in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...Read more

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 governor got even steeper on Tuesday, when Democrats racked up wins all over the ballot and across Pennsylvania and the U.S. — ...Read more

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 receive benefits each month from the Supplemental Nutritional Access Program (SNAP). The Minnesota Department of Children, ...Read more