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75% of SNAP’s Administrative Costs Shift to the States Thursday, the Same Day Benefits Rise

On Thursday, October 1, SNAP benefits go up and the federal government stops paying half the cost of running the program, and almost every story about…

75% of SNAP’s Administrative Costs Shift to the States Thursday, the Same Day Benefits Rise

After the House Passed It in July, the Senate Rejected the Iran War Resolution 49 to 50

ShinyHunters, the Hacking Group the FBI Warned About in May, Says It Stole Data on Nearly Every FBI Agent

Why Is Trump Meeting Xi on the Tarmac When Xi Sent a Deputy to Meet Him in Beijing?

Pennsylvania Counts Four Measles Deaths, the CDC’s National Tally Counts None

An $875 Million AI Starts Routing Traffic Over Washington’s Three Airports Today

After a Republican Read Eight Impeachment Articles Aloud, the House Must Vote on Hegseth by Thursday

Florida Ordered Flock Cameras Off State Roads Because That Is Where Its Authority Ends

Miami’s Runway 30 Ends at a Public Road, Not an Arrestor Bed

The Law That Closed Walton County’s Beaches Was Repealed Fourteen Months Ago

The IRS Lost a Third of Its Audit Revenue, and the Money to Rebuild the Staff Ran Out on New Year’s Eve

Congress Sent the Iran War Bill to the Lame Duck, the One Session Voters Cannot Reach

Congress Is Writing a Second Epstein Law Because the Attorney General Already Admitted He Is Breaking the First

The Executive Order Creating a Space Academy Does Not Create a Space Academy

The Chinese Parts in America’s Voting Machines Are Real, Which Is Why Homeland Security Can Get Away With This

Minnesota Never Voted on the Gun Bill Annunciation’s Parents Spent a Year Fighting For

Australia Sent Us an Incident Management Team. Ours Is Cleaning a Reflecting Pool.

Rand Paul, Not the Democrats, Is Why Trump Still Has No Confirmed ICE Director

The Navy Has Three Weeks to Get Its Story Straight Before the Lincoln Docks in San Diego

The Natalie Harp Letters Describe a Job the White House Never Formally Assigned

A $200 Tax Went to Zero in 2025. A Texas Judge Just Ended the 90-Year Gun Registry It Paid For.

Eight People Died at Cape Newenham, a Gravel Strip Cut Into the Side of a Mountain

38 Days in Public: Melania Trump Traded Visibility for a Foster Care Policy Win

Mike Caruso Was Arrested a Year to the Day After DeSantis Made Him Palm Beach County’s Court Clerk

60 Million Americans Are Under Heat Alerts for a Hazard FEMA Cannot Legally Call a Disaster

Indiana Got a 1-in-1000-Year Rain on Ground a Derecho Had Already Stripped

The Acting CDC Director Says Vaccinate Your Kids. The White House Is Drafting an Order That Says Otherwise.

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom, but the East Wing Is Already Gone

The Fauci Contempt Vote Is Really a Fight Over Whether a Pardon Can Cancel the Fifth Amendment

Chipotle’s Own Supply Records Named the Jalapeños. The FDA’s 212-Case Salmonella File Still Names Nothing.