As Millions Feel SNAP Freeze Under Trump, Ukrainian Refugees Lose Food Aid Entirely

All Rise News obtained letters showing that Trump’s government knocked Ukrainian refugees off food assistance keeping them from hunger.

All Rise News

Trump administration says states must “immediately undo any steps” to send full SNAP benefits

“To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized,” Patrick Penn, deputy undersecretary of Agriculture, wrote to state SNAP directors. “Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.”

CBS News

US Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in food aid funding for now

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who issued the stay, set it to expire two days after the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules on the administration’s request to halt a judge’s order that the U.S. Department of Agriculture promptly pay the full amount of this month’s SNAP benefits, which cost $8.5 billion to $9 billion per month.

Reuters

190. SNAP WTF?

It may surprise folks that Justice Jackson, who has been one of the most vocal critics of the Court’s behavior on emergency applications from the Trump administration, acquiesced in even a temporary pause of the district court’s ruling in this case. But as I read the order, which says a lot more than a typical “administrative stay” from the Court, Jackson was stuck between a rock and a hard place—given the incredibly compressed timing that was created by the circumstances of the case.

One First

Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave?

How the Senate Democratic leader and his Gang of Eight keep trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.

The American Prospect

Why I Am Resigning

A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

The Atlantic

Opinion | Mamdani recalls Milwaukee’s sewer socialism

….But Mamdani was not the first mayor of a great American city to talk up Debs. Indeed, when Debs ran what was arguably his most successful presidential campaign — a 1912 bid that won 6% of the national vote and actually outperformed sitting Republican President William Howard Taft in seven states — his running mate was the Socialist mayor of Milwaukee: Emil Seidel.

The Cap Times

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

He co-discovered DNA’s structure but later engaged in rank racism and sexism

Stat10

I’m One of the Clergy ICE Assaulted. They Treat Immigrants Worse

Christian leaders have an important role to play in resisting ICE. We come completely unarmed and committed to peace, carrying only the spiritual weapons and the social privilege that religious leaders enjoy in our society. It is especially important for white religious leaders—like me—to use that privilege on behalf of those facing this immense campaign of cruelty.

Sojourners

I Want You to Understand Chicago

The masked thugs who attack my neighbors, who point guns at elected officials and shoot pastors with pepper balls, who tear-gas neighborhoods, terrify children, and drag teachers and alderpeople away in handcuffs are not unprecedented. We knew this was coming a year ago, when Trump promised mass deportations. We knew it was coming, and seventy-seven million of us voted for it anyway.

Aphyr

Some Head Start preschools shutter as government shutdown continues

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool

ABC News

Trump says US will skip G20 in South Africa

“Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

“No U.S. Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue,” the post also reads. “I look forward to hosting the 2026 G20 in Miami, Florida!”

The Hill

Government shutdown reaches its 40th day as senators work through a crucial weekend

The Senate has shown few signs of progress over a weekend that could be crucial for the shutdown fight. Republican leaders are hoping to hold votes on bills that would reopen the government into January while also approving full-year funding for several parts of government. The necessary Democratic support for that effort was far from guaranteed.

TMJ4

If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You

This is how Trump 2.0 does its business: at knifepoint.

Defector

Feds Tell Faith Leaders ‘No More Prayer’ Outside Broadview Facility

In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time on Friday.

Block Club Chicago

DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump

Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.

The New Republic

Hundreds of S.F. immigration cases were paused for decades. Trump tried to revive them.

The lawyers say the initiative by the Trump administration, which was seemingly paused in August but could start up again in the future, denied due process: Immigrants with long-paused cases can be hard to track down, and attorneys have not always been informed of the motions in time to challenge them in court.

Mission Local

The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds

The pattern has been consistent. Every few months this year, a new class of judges gets termination notices in the middle of the day, often while they are in the middle of immigration court proceedings. The notices often target those who have reached the end of their two-year probationary period, a trial period for federal workers before they are “converted” to permanent employees. It was previously common for these civil servants to be converted to permanent employees of the DOJ.

NPR

Lawsuit Blasts Trump’s Bid to Keep New Citizens From Registering to Vote

Since 2011, nongovernmental groups (NGOs) have helped many thousands of people register to vote after they swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and officially become citizens. In late August, however, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced an abrupt change banning groups from providing voter registration services at naturalization ceremonies. 

Democracy Docket

An Israeli military court extends detention of U.S. teen charged with stone-throwing

Mohammed, a U.S. citizen, has been in Israeli prison since then, without family visits or phone calls. In March, he turned 16 behind bars, and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

NPR

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year

Droughts are usually multi-year events. While much of England went into drought this summer, with hosepipe bans across large swathes of the country, things were not as bad as they could have been because it had been a rainy autumn and winter the year before. This meant reservoirs were full and that groundwater – storage of water under the soil – was charged up.

The Guardian

Revealed: UK embassy worker in Tel Aviv owns property in settlement built by movement sanctioned by Britain

Government described Amana organisation as ‘funding Israeli settlers involved in perpetrating acts of violence against Palestinian communities’

The National

Israel says forensic testing confirms it received remains of soldier killed in Gaza in 2014

Israel says forensic testing confirms it has received the remains of Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

The 23-year-old Israeli soldier was killed two hours after a ceasefire took effect in that year’s war between Israel and Hamas.

PBS

Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan

Kanto is emblematic of both Akita’s cultural splendor and its conservative rural society.

And Akita itself is emblematic of Japan’s 21st century demographic challenges: It has the most aged population (39% were over age 65 in 2024), the lowest birth rate and the fastest declining population of Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to government figures. Gender inequality is accelerating depopulation in rural areas like this.

NPR

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realized an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself.

Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to play along with the world’s suspense.

As theories swirled about the sharply dressed stranger in the “Fedora Man” shot — detective, insider, AI fake — he decided to stay silent and watch.

“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”

AP News

Huntingdon train hero refused Ryanair refund after injuries stopped him flying

Airline says victim should have taken out insurance after confrontation with knife attacker

The Telegraph

Super Typhoon Fung-wong slams into Philippines, killing 2 and displacing more than 1 million

Super Typhoon Fung-wong slammed ashore on Sunday in the northeastern coast of the Philippines, where the massive storm had already left at least two people dead and forced more than a million people to evacuate from flood- and landslide-prone areas, officials said.

PBS

Why has Tim Davie resigned and what was the Trump documentary edit?

The BBC had come under fire over a Panorama documentary that was accused of misleadingly editing a speech by Donald Trump to make it look like he was urging people to attack the US Capitol.

BBC

A first-time HPV vaccination campaign sees some success — and strong resistance

In Pakistan, HPV is the third most common cancer, with some 5,000 cases reported annually. The yearly global death toll from the disease is approximately 300,000, with most fatalities in places where screenings and treatment are not easily accessible.

NPR