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With the longest U.S. government shutdown over, state officials said Thursday that they are working quickly to get full SNAP food benefits to millions of people, though it still could take up to a week for some to receive their delayed aid. A back-and-forth series of court rulings and shifting...

President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks. The signing ceremony came just hours after the House passed...

STARKE, Fla. — A former Marine convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl more than four decades ago is scheduled Thursday to be executed in Florida, which would be the record 16th death sentence carried out under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, is set...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Lawyers for two of President Donald Trump’s foes who have been charged by the Justice Department asked a judge on Thursday to dismiss the cases against them, saying the prosecutor who secured the indictments was illegally installed in the role. U.S. District Cameron McGowan Currie didn’t immediately...

McALESTER, Okla. — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man’s sentence to life in prison without parole. Stitt formally granted clemency to Tremane Wood, 46, who was scheduled to...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans and forced more than 1 million workers to go unpaid for more than a month. But the deep political divisions that...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Rights groups in Cameroon disputed Thursday the government’s death toll of 16 killed during protests over the election victory of President Paul Biya last month, claiming the actual figure is nearly double. Philippe Nanga, coordinator of the rights group A World for the Future, told The Associated...

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, moving past a political mess that has lasted for 43 days and left millions of Americans unable to travel or afford food. The measure passed on a vote of 222-209 and now heads...

WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, wrote that President Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims and allegedly “knew about the girls,” according to emails House Democrats released Nov. 12. The White House called the Democratic release of the emails...

WASHINGTON – In his first order of business after a nearly two-month-long recess, House Speaker Mike Johnson swore in Arizona Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday, Nov. 12. The official action took place seven weeks after her special election victory in September to replace her late father in Congress. The...

WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump is committed to providing Americans a $2,000 check using money that has come into government coffers from Trump’s tariffs, the White House said on Wednesday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s staff is exploring how to go about making the plan a...

NEW YORK/NEWARK — In Newark’s heavily Latino Ironbound district, Rosa Ludena works the register of the electronics shop she’s owned since 2003. A wall of phone cases appears on display behind her, but few shoppers are around to buy them. Traffic has slowed, and some of her customers have told...

More than 1,000 Starbucks unionized baristas in over 40 U.S. cities launched an open-ended strike on Thursday, the union said, escalating their push for a collective bargaining agreement over pay and other benefits at the coffee giant. The walkout, which the union said will begin with 65 stores, coincides with...

Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday he planned to close publicly funded Army Radio in what he described as an attempt to preserve the military’s nonpartisan character, but the decision was denounced by the station’s chief as a blow to press freedom. The minister, Israel Katz, said in a statement...

DUBAI — Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades, with officials warning that Tehran — a city of more than 10 million — may soon be uninhabitable if the drought gripping the country continues. President Masoud Pezeshkian has cautioned that if rainfall does not arrive by December,...

CAIRO/GAZA — Mohammed Wael Helles, 14, has been waiting for surgery on a serious spinal injury caused by an Israeli airstrike for nearly two months, one of thousands of Gazans waiting for urgent treatment in Gaza’s battered health system. Helles was a top student with aspirations of becoming a doctor...

The penny, the United States’ iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. It was 232 years old. In its heyday it was ubiquitous, an American avatar of grit, humility and thrift....

WASHINGTON -The House of Representatives will try to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history on Wednesday, with a vote on a stopgap funding package to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system. Republicans currently hold a narrow...

With no big winner in Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing, the game’s jackpot will jump to at least $965 million for Friday’s game. The pot was $900 million for Tuesday’s drawing. It marks the eighth largest jackpot since the Mega Millions game began in 2002. The highest jackpot winner this...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump downplayed possible 50-year mortgages as a way to make houses more affordable than typical 30-year loans, as some supporters balked at a plan that would have homeowners paying more in interest and taking longer to build equity. “All it means is you pay less...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from President Donald Trump urging him to consider granting a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Herzog’s office said on Wednesday. Netanyahu has been facing a long-running corruption trial, and Trump has repeatedly asked for a pardon for his close ally. Netanyahu...

President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for at least $1 billion over its airing of what he says was a deceptively edited documentary, but the case could hinge on whether anyone in Florida watched it online and felt misled. If that hurdle is cleared, a U.S. court...

WASHINGTON − The compromise legislation to reopen the government includes a provision allowing senators whose phone records were subpoenaed during the Justice Department investigation of alleged election interference to each sue the government for up to $500,000. Special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed the phone records of GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham...

As a tribute to veterans and active-duty military personnel, many restaurants across the U.S. have food specials on Tuesday, Nov. 11 for Veterans Day. Veterans Day arose out of Armistice Day, a holiday held annually on Nov. 11 to mark the end of World War I. The Allies and Germany...

WASHINGTON — Members of the House of Representatives headed back to Washington on Tuesday, after a 53-day break, braving the congestion at the nation’s tangled airports for a vote that could bring the longest U.S. government shutdown in history to a close. With nearly 1,200 flights canceled on Tuesday due...