Nation and World Politics
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Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown
Oct 31, 2025 1:26 pm - Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
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Republican leaders reject Trump’s demands to scrap Senate filibuster to end shutdown
Oct 31, 2025 11:05 am - Back from a week abroad, President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster and reopen the government after a monthlong shutdown, breaking with majority Republicans who have long opposed such a move.
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Advocates allege ‘inhumane’ conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility in new lawsuit
Oct 31, 2025 7:59 am - Illinois advocates sued federal authorities Friday over alleged “inhumane and torturous” conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility.
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Judge says she’ll likely order Trump administration to send SNAP funds to states
Oct 30, 2025 7:46 pm - A federal judge on Thursday indicated she would probably order the Trump administration to use reserves to partially fund food assistance for about 42 million Americans i...
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Noem suggests Chicago immigration blitz includes 5 other states, claims no U.S. citizens detained
Oct 30, 2025 7:37 pm - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to northwest Indiana Thursday and indicated the immigration enforcement campaign that’s rocked the Chicago area actually extends to five other states, none of which have so-called sanctuary protections and two of which are led by Republicans.
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Deal between the US and China is undoing damage from a self-inflicted trade war
Oct 30, 2025 4:33 pm - BUSAN, South Korea — Three-digit tariffs are off the table, but import duties on each other are higher than in January. Rare earth materials will flow more smoothly,...
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Judge questions the Trump administration's plan to suspend SNAP benefits for millions
Oct 30, 2025 3:22 pm - BOSTON — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday seemed skeptical of the Trump's administration's argument that SNAP benefits could be suspended for the first time in the f...
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Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens
Oct 30, 2025 8:13 am - The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard is being readied for civil unrest missions in U.S. cities.
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Trump’s comments on nuclear testing upend decades of US policy. Here's what to know about it
Oct 30, 2025 8:11 am - President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's rivals have been expanding and testing their nuclear-capable arsenals.
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Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa's destruction
Oct 30, 2025 8:06 am - SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm...