Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million to unfreeze $250 million in federal funding, money the Trump admin was withholding over claims that the Ivy League institution discriminated against Jewish students during campus protests over Israel’s actions in Gaza www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

A federal judge ruled Friday that the partisan language added to out-of-office email messages of furloughed Education Department employees violates their First Amendment rights www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The IRS won't offer Direct File for next year's tax season The government-provided free alternative to paid services was popular, but has been downplayed for months qz.com/irs-direct-f...

OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout If you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

Dystopian Town Sends Lying Cop To Innocent Woman's Home In a Denver suburb, Chrisanna Elser was wrongly accused of package theft due to erroneous Flock Safety license-plate cameras, forcing her to prove her innocence www.youtube.com/watch?v=37fp...

A Rhode Island federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to find enough money to restore full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...

U.S.-based employers cut more than 150,000 jobs in October, marking the biggest reduction for the month in more than 20 years, a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas said on Thursday as industries adopt AI-driven changes and intensify cost cuts www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Kansas Republicans fail to get support for redistricting. But their plan isn't dead yet www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

6 Million Who Rely on Federal Heating Aid Poised to Suffer As Temps Drop and Trump Shutdown Drags On www.commondreams.org/news/heating...

Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Voters elected Democrats to two seats previously held by Republicans www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Voters in California have approved a measure to redraw political lines to favour Democrats - launching a counterattack against similar efforts by conservative-led states www.bbc.com/news/article...

Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients futurism.com/artificial-i...

Hurricane Melissa caused at least 67 deaths, up to $4 billion in insured losses in Jamaica and tens of billions of dollars of overall damage throughout the Caribbean www.nbcnews.com/weather/hurr...

A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest www.kcur.org/news/2025-11...

Flights delayed across US amid air traffic controller shortages as shutdown drags on Nearly 50% of 30 busiest airports facing absences as staff are forced to work without pay and shutdown hits 31st day www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump Marks Full Month Of Government Shutdown With $3.4 Million Golf Trip To Florida The Air Force One trip is his 13th visit to his Palm Beach country club since he returned to office and brings his taxpayer funded golf total to $60.7 million. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund The ruling came one day before funding for SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps, was set to lapse. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Global automakers are once again bracing for production disruptions due to a potential shortage of automotive semiconductor chips, this time sparked by the Dutch government amid geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/n...

Trump administration is refusing to give broadband-deployment grants to states that enforce net neutrality rules or price regulations US says net neutrality is price regulation and is banned in $42B grant program arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown newrepublic.com/post/202496/...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday declared a state of emergency to issue $65 million for assistance to food banks as federal funding for the national food stamp program is set to lapse on November 1 www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Tennessee drops felony charge against man jailed for a Charlie Kirk post apnews.com/article/char...

Paramount Skydance begins layoffs, plans to slash about 2,000 jobs The widely anticipated layoffs come just months after the Trump administration greenlit creating the company following Skydance’s bid for the storied entertainment group www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

Missouri’s new map carves 70,000 minority residents out of Kansas City district “We’re not going to do this to disenfranchise Blacks,” said Sen. Mike Cierpiot, a LSMO Republican. “We are doing it to defeat Democrats who, as far as I know, are not a protected class.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Charges were suddently dropped Wednesday against a Tennessee man who had been jailed for more than a month for posting a Trump meme www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Toyota Says Trump Is Bragging About a Deal It Didn’t Make The automaker says the president’s claim of a $10 billion investment is unfounded newrepublic.com/post/202428/...

Josh Hawley Postures as SNAP Defender Months After Voting to Slash Food Aid for Millions Hawley’s statement on the new legislation did not mention his support for Trump’s signature budget package, which included the largest SNAP cuts in US history www.commondreams.org/news/josh-ha...

The Federal Communications Commission voted yesterday to raise the maximum prices that prison and jail phone services can charge inmates and their families arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump fires federal arts board in charge of reviewing White House ballroom and ‘Arc de Trump’ White House says it will appoint new Commission of Fine Arts members ‘more aligned with … America First Policies’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials said Wednesday apnews.com/article/isra...

Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump administration for failing to salvage SNAP benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown newrepublic.com/post/202378/...

Hurricane Melissa has just tied the all-time strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin as it crashed ashore in Jamaica at Category 5 intensity Melissa currently is tied for third strongest on record by pressure weather.com/storms/hurri...

In a new memo sent to states, the USDA has now said it will not tap into its contingency fund to pay for SNAP next month, and if states were to tap into their own reserves to cover the cost they would not be reimbursed www.live5news.com/2025/10/27/u...

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say Jassy said in June that the increased use of artificial intelligence tools would likely lead to further job cuts, particularly through automating repetitive and routine tasks www.reuters.com/business/wor...

ICE Just Spent Millions on a Social Media Surveillance AI Program www.levernews.com/ice-just-bou...

US Boeing workers continue midwest strike after rejecting latest contract offer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Treasury Chief Bessent Says He’s a ‘Soybean Farmer’ Who Has ‘Felt the Pain’ of Trump Tariffs After Trump slapped 30% tariffs on Chinese imports in May, Beijing retaliated with measures including stopping all purchases of US soybeans www.commondreams.org/news/bessent...

Effort to pay at least some federal workers fails in Senate The Republican-backed measure did not receive the 60 votes needed to pass. Republicans blocked the Democrats' version from a vote www.npr.org/2025/10/23/g...

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As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime fortune.com/2025/10/22/g...

Trump administration has denied Michigan’s request to unlock millions more in disaster aid for northern Michigan after a spring ice storm wrecked the region’s power grid and left behind widespread damage www.mlive.com/news/2025/10...

U.S. Interior Department plans to fire nearly all staff at Missouri environmental research center www.kbia.org/kbia-news/20...

The Trump administration has said it will rescind Clinton’s roadless rule The rule protects select fragments of forest, most of it in the US west, that are some of the most treasured jewels of nature found outside America’s storied national parks www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from state Republican parties www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump announced he’s ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad sponsored by one of its provinces that used the words of former President Ronald Reagan to criticize U.S. tariffs — prompting the province’s leader to later pull the ad apnews.com/article/trum...

DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay White House and military officials will not say who the donor is or whether the gift has been properly vetted www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump Rips Out Presidents’ Historic Trees for New Ballroom Satellite imagery shows that six trees, including southern magnolias commemorating presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt, were axed or removed from the White House grounds this week www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rips-o...