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Proposed SNAP changes could impact 11 million Americans, report finds

Posted 3:37 PM, May 10, 2025 A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that a proposed change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would risk the benefits of 11 million Americans receiving assistance. The report examined a recent bill proposed by Republican Reps. Dusty Johnson, Randy Feenstra, and Warren Davidson. One notable aspect of the legislation is that it would increase the age for complying with SNAP's work requirements from 55 to 65. Accordin ...

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Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources

The luxury jumbo jet is to be used as Air Force One, sources told ABC News. By Jonathan Karl and Katherine Faulders May 11, 2025, 6:02 AM In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government, the Trump administration is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar -- a gift that is to be available for use by President Donald Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which ...

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'Verbatim copying': Bombshell report says Hegseth broke Princeton's academic honesty rules

May 10, 2025 8:18PM ET U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can add plagiarism to his list of things he's been formally accused of. Trump's pick for the top Pentagon spot has previously faced allegations of sexual assault and of having a drinking problem. Now it's being reported that, while in school at Princeton, he copied other pieces for his thesis. The local Daily Princetonian flagged a particular sentence in the senior thesis authored by Hegseth. In that piece, Hegseth wrote in part, &qu ...

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'Dealmaker' Trump Frustrated By Inability to Strike Deals

Published May 10 2025 6:17PM EDT President Donald Trump, who publicly touts himself as a “dealmaker-in-chief,” is privately upset at his failure to strike deals that will end the two wars he has sought to end, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. At a closed-door meeting with top donors at Mar-a-Lago last week, Trump admitted that the frustration he feels from his inability to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine keeps him up at night, people in the room told the WSJ. He said ...

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Hegseth sparks fears as he moves to ax generals

05/10/25 5:00 PM ET Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to ax the size of the U.S. military’s top ranks has triggered concerns of a political purge. Hegseth, who on Monday directed significant cuts to the U.S. military’s senior-most positions, has already fired several top leaders with no explanation. His latest plan could now eliminate roughly 100 generals and admirals, which he said was necessary to remove “redundant force structure” and streamline Pentagon bureaucracy. But while it is tr ...

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Roger Stone Suggests Democratic Senator Should Face 'Execution' After He Criticized Trump's Crypto Ventures

May 10, 2025, 02:30 PM EDT Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, suggested Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) should face “execution” after the lawmaker questioned Trump’s recent business ventures into cryptocurrency. “Trump is cashing in on his presidency and making millions from his own crypto coins. It’s corruption in broad daylight,” Kelly wrote on X Wednesday, promoting the “End Crypto Corruption Act,” which he said would make it illegal for “the President, the Vice President, ad ...

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New independent movement wants to deny both parties a House majority

May 10, 2025 at 1:31 p.m. EDT LIVONIA, Mich. -- During focus-group sessions in this bellwether state, two groups of swing voters were asked last month to give an instant assessment of the two political parties. The Democratic Party came under attack: "old, slow ... lost ... a joke ... rudderless." The image of today's Republican Party wasn't much better, viewed largely through President Donald Trump: "far right, no middle ... a joke, too ... united ... delusional." Behind ...

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Quakers march against Trump's crackdown on immigrants carrying on their long faith tradition

Updated 1:43 PM EDT, May 10, 2025 PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. The march extends a long tradition of Quaker activism. Historically, Quakers have been involved in peaceful protests to end wars and slavery, and support women’s voting rights in line with their commitment to justice and peace. Far more recently, Quakers sued the federal g ...

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Trump is scrambling to 'avoid suffering through dozens of new investigations': report

May 10, 2025 11:22AM ET More than a year before the 2026 midterm election really kicks into gear, Donald Trump is sticking his nose into Republican Party plans to keep control of both chambers of Congress under its thumb. According to a report from Politico, the president has two reasons to hope that the GOP can defy history and not lose seats in the next election and one of them is making sure Democrats don't gain control of the House which could lead to a repeat of the last two years of his ...

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Malnourished children, hospital supplies running low: Impact of 2 months of no aid in Gaza

Israel's decision to halt all humanitarian aid from crossing into Gaza is entering its third month. The Israeli government said the blockade is to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages, including the remains of those who have died, and to accept a new proposal to extend phase one of the ceasefire deal, which ended on March 18. Israel's Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) wrote in a post on X in late April that humanitarian personnel have been allowed ...

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Newark airport halts flights as system fails again, traffic control problems continue

30 min ago - Updated: May. 11, 2025, 11:54 a.m. | Published: May. 11, 2025, 10:51 a.m. The mounting air traffic control problems at Newark Liberty International Airport caused aviation officials to implement a ground stop for flights on Sunday morning, the third ... (NJ.com)

Lutnick says 10% tariffs here to stay, but insists consumers won't pay for it

1 hr ago - 3 hours ago Baseline global tariffs of 10% are likely to stay, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday -- but he insisted countries and businesses, and not consumers, would pay. Why it matters: Economists generally disagree, and sentiment surv ... (Axios)

Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them

2 hrs ago - May 11, 2025 6:00 AM ET By late March, Anthony Lee should have gotten a heads up that mass layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration were about to begin. Instead the union president found out when he started getting panicked calls early one morning ... (NPR)

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 13 people, mostly women and children

2 hrs ago - By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Updated 8:19 AM CDT, May 11, 2025 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday killed 13 people in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, according to local health officials. Two ... (AP)

Legal Experts Slam Trump Administration's Habeas Corpus Suggestion

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Iran and the US begin a 4th round of negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program in Oman

3 hrs ago - Updated 10:19 AM EDT, May 11, 2025 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States held a fourth round of negotiations Sunday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, just ahead of a visit by President Donald Trump to ... (AP)

Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts

4 hrs ago - May 11, 2025, 7:00 AM EDT Inside a 90-square-mile stretch of rural reservation between the eastern Jemez Mountains and the banks of the Rio Grande River sits the Santa Clara Pueblo Community Library, an anchor for the northern New Mexico tribe it ser ... (NBC News)

Thousands of Homeless Veterans To Be Housed Under New Trump Plan

4 hrs ago - Published May 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM EDT President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to turn the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Campus into the nation's largest center for homeless veteran housing and care, with the aim of accommodat ... (Newsweek)

FEMA cuts emergency training under Trump as hurricane season looms

5 hrs ago - May 11, 2025 6:08 AM EDT Updated 36 min ago WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start of the hurricane season on June 1, according to cu ... (Reuters)

Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources

5 hrs ago - The luxury jumbo jet is to be used as Air Force One, sources told ABC News. By Jonathan Karl and Katherine Faulders May 11, 2025, 6:02 AM In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government, the Trump ad ... (abc news)

Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Will Talk Once Russia Agrees to Truce

5 hrs ago - May 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM EDT Updated on May 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM EDT President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine was ready to meet for talks with Russia — but only after Vladimir Putin agrees to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, which the Russian ... (Bloomberg)

Nashville group cancels events surrounding MLS game, cites immigration arrests

6 hrs ago - Sunday 11 May 2025 04:32 BST A supporters group for Nashville's Major League Soccer team canceled game-day activities following recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Tennessee that have resulted in more than 100 people taken i ... (The Independent)

'Verbatim copying': Bombshell report says Hegseth broke Princeton's academic honesty rules

6 hrs ago - May 10, 2025 8:18PM ET U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can add plagiarism to his list of things he's been formally accused of. Trump's pick for the top Pentagon spot has previously faced allegations of sexual assault and of having a drinking pro ... (Raw Story)

New bill would ease rules on researching cannabis and other schedule I drugs

7 hrs ago - Sat 10 May 2025 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 10 May 2025 18.16 EDT A recently introduced bill, if it passes, would allow research on cannabis despite its schedule I status, which some experts say could help policymakers “craft effective” ... (The Guardian)

'Dealmaker' Trump Frustrated By Inability to Strike Deals

7 hrs ago - Published May 10 2025 6:17PM EDT President Donald Trump, who publicly touts himself as a “dealmaker-in-chief,” is privately upset at his failure to strike deals that will end the two wars he has sought to end, according to a report in The ... (Daily Beast)

DOJ to investigate Muslim-led development targeted by Texas GOP, senator says

8 hrs ago - May 10, 2025 at 6:07 p.m. EDT The Justice Department will investigate whether a planned real estate development around one of North Texas's largest mosques violates federal law, Sen. John Cornyn (R) said Friday after weeks of calling the project anti ... (Washington Post)

Hegseth sparks fears as he moves to ax generals

8 hrs ago - 05/10/25 5:00 PM ET Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to ax the size of the U.S. military’s top ranks has triggered concerns of a political purge. Hegseth, who on Monday directed significant cuts to the U.S. military’s senior-most ... (The Hill)

Trump fires top US copyright official

9 hrs ago - CONGRESS Trump fires top US copyright official Democrats are alleging foul play. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, testifies during a hearing of the United States Copyright Office, Nov. 13, 2024. Mar ... (Politico)

'From all sides': universities in red states face attacks from DC and at home

9 hrs ago - Sat 10 May 2025 13.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 10 May 2025 17.34 EDT Days after the University of Michigan president, Santa Ono, announced that he was leaving his post to lead the University of Florida, his name was quietly removed on Wednesday from ... (The Guardian)

Liz Cheney Rebukes Donald Trump in Post Praising New Pope Leo XIV

9 hrs ago - Published May 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM EDT | Updated May 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM EDT Former Representative Liz Cheney took a swipe at President Donald Trump as she welcomed the election of a new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV. Although the former GOP congresswoman fr ... (Newsweek)