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Associated Press:
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 …
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order on releasing SNAP benefits — A federal judge had ordered the administration to release full benefits for November. The administration said Friday it was working to release those benefits. — The Trump administration asked …
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
The voices of SNAP — Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like. … Stephanie boarded a city bus Monday morning to make the 90 minute trek from one end of Mesa, Arizona to the other.
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NBC News:
Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP
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Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:
Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits
Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
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.
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Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
Trump wants to abolish the filibuster. GOP senators aren't on board.
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown
Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated
Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated
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New York Times:
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 …
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Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Cornell to pay $60M to settle Trump administration probes … In April, Cornell said it received more than 75 stop work orders from the Department of Defense related to research on national defense, cybersecurity and health. … “The decades-long research partnership between Cornell …
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NBC News:
‘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.
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Jackie Llanos / NOTUS:
ICE Detention and Surveillance Translate Into Hundreds of Millions for Companies — Business is booming for the private prison companies that operate much of President Donald Trump's immigrant detention apparatus. — Private prison giant Geo Group announced this week that it has seen its largest amount of new business ever in 2025.
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Jacqueline Sweet / Disaster Girl:
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 …
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail … Alexander Smirnov, the ex-FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence. — In a plea deal in December 2024 …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
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.
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New York Times:
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.
Zach Everson / Forbes:
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.
Regina Garcia Cano / Associated Press:
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.
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New York Times:
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.
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Martina Di Licosa / Forbes:
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.
NBC News:
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.
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New York Times:
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler — The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge. — At first, the encounter seemed typical of the kinds …
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
This North Carolina Democrat can't win her district. So she's running as a Republican. — In her crusade against gerrymandering, Kate Barr is challenging her Republican congressman in the GOP primary to make a point. — Just now — When Kate Barr ran for a state senate seat …
Washington Post:
In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown — House Speaker Mike Johnson's congressional district has one of the highest SNAP usage rates in the country. Constituents wonder why he hasn't used his power to help them, but many lay blame on Washington's dysfunction.
Anna Bower / Lawfare:
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 …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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.
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New York Times:
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 Atlantic:
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 …
Cindy Hernandez / Chicago Sun Times:
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.”
M. Gessen / New York Times:
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.
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