Top StoriesSat Nov 08 2025
Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP
The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal appeals court for an emergency pause on a federal judge's order to fully fund SNAP benefits this month. U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordered the administration on Thursday afternoon to deliver payments in full to states by Friday, chastising it for delays that he said have likely caused SNAP recipients to go hungry.
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Top StoriesFri Nov 07 2025
Trump Announces Cost Cuts to Weight Loss Drugs
U.S. President Donald Trump announced agreements with pharmaceutical companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to reduce prices for their obesity drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, respectively, including $50 monthly copays for Medicare patients starting mid-2026 and expanded coverage for those with severe obesity.
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Top StoriesThu Nov 06 2025
Zohran Mamdani Elected Mayor of New York City
Self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday beat former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican Curtis Silwa to become New York City's first Muslim mayor and the first South Asian to hold the office.
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Top StoriesWed Nov 05 2025
Former US vice president Dick Cheney dies at 84
Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.
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Top StoriesTue Nov 04 2025
UK Police Charge Anthony Williams with Attempted Murder Over Train Stabbing
A 32-year-old man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder after a mass stabbing on a high-speed train. Anthony Williams, 32, from Peterborough, was arrested on Saturday evening following an attack on the Doncaster to London King's Cross LNER service.
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Top StoriesMon Nov 03 2025
SNAP Benefits in Peril as Shutdown Persists; Obama to Stump for Dems in VA, NJ![]()
Federal food aid is on the line as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is poised to run out of money on Saturday amid the ongoing government shutdown. A federal judge on Friday ordered officials to tap emergency funds for the program and President Trump later indicated that he would follow through. But a plan…
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Top StoriesSun Nov 02 2025
Uncertainty over federal food aid deepens as the shutdown fight reaches a crisis point
The crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington were coming to a head Saturday as the federal food assistance program faced delays and millions of Americans were set to see a dramatic rise in their health insurance bills. The impacts on basic needs — food and medical care — underscored how the impasse is hitting homes across the United States. Plans by the Trump administration to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Saturday were halted by federal judges, but the delay in payouts will still likely leave millions of people short on their grocery bills.
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Top StoriesSat Nov 01 2025
US judge blocks Trump administration from suspending food aid benefits
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from suspending all food aid for millions of Americans amid the ongoing government shutdown.
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