Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  President Donald Trump's administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge's order …

Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out a new Democratic counterproposal for ending the government shutdown: attaching a one-year extension of soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies to a spending stopgap that would reopen agencies.

FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears  —  Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago. … An FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released …

Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds  —  The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year.  The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.  —  Cornell University reached an agreement …

‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants  —  The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration's capacity for detaining immigrants.

Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves  —  Topline  —  The Trump Organization's second-term push to monetize Donald Trump's presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores, which provide service members and their families with access to tax-free consumer goods, have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider.

Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation … Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals over the past nine months in a series of ousters that could reshape the U.S. military for years to come.

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists.  The truth, AP found, is more nuanced  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month.  Another was a career criminal.

The 2024 Trump “realignment” is over already  —  It is a matter of fact that Donald Trump won the 2024 election in large part by shrinking the vote margins for Kamala Harris among non-white, working-class, and young voters, relative to past Democratic nominees.  —  But the interpretation of Trump's 2024 win is a matter of opinion.

Administration Live Updates: Trump Appeals Ruling That Orders Fast and Full SNAP Payments  —  Where Things Stand  — Food stamps: The administration asked an appeals court on Friday to immediately halt a judge's ruling that would require the government to fully fund food stamps.

Supermarket Billionaire Threatens To Cut Workforce, Move To Florida After Mamdani's Win … New York City supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis went nuclear in June, when Zohran Mamdani, who had proposed opening a cheap city-run grocery story in each of the five boroughs, won the democratic primary for mayor.

Musk Wins $1 Trillion Pay Package, Creating Split Screen on Wealth in America  —  Tesla shareholders approved a plan to grant Elon Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company's stock market valuation.

Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker and his aide, who were convicted on federal corruption charges  —  Glen Casada, a Republican, was sentenced to 36 months in prison after being convicted on 17 charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

More Trouble for the Comey Indictment?  —  Public documents may undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.  —  annabower.bsky.social  —  Meet The Authors … When a Virginia grand jury returned a two-count indictment against former FBI Director James Comey in September …

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site  —  Despite a fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through.  —  The Serbian Parliament approved a new law Friday …

The softest Nazis you ever did see  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ✊ Subscribe to PN ✊  —  The Trump administration only wants the most formidable warriors, real stone-cold-killer types, to join his war on immigrants.

Judge orders Education Department to halt ‘partisan’ employee email messages … “Political officials are free to blame whomever they wish for the shutdown, but they cannot use rank-and-file civil servants as their unwilling spokespeople.  The First Amendment stands in their way.

The Founders Would Abhor Trump's Domestic Deployments  —  STARTING IN THE SPRING and then escalating over the summer, President Donald Trump sent federal troops or “called up” National Guard units to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland, and Chicago.

Flight Cancellations Could Rise to 20% if Government Shutdown Continues  —  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that as air-traffic controllers miss paychecks, more might start to miss their shifts  —  Flight cancellations across the U.S. could rise to 15%—or even 20% …

Tulsi Gabbard's Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control  —  A memo circulating within the federal government lays out her office's reasoning for wanting to transfer counterintelligence work away from the FBI.  —  Throughout donald trump's first term, his third campaign …

Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility  —  The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Blitz.”

The Ruling About Passports Isn't About ID.  It's About Social Control.  —  At Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv a few weeks ago, about to fly back to New York, I handed my passport to two young border officers.  One of them examined it and handed it to the other with a puzzled expression.