Government reopens after 43 days: Trump signs bill ending record shutdown w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social and Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gove...

Government to reopen after 43 days: US House sends bill to Trump ending record shutdown w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social and Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gove...

Government to reopen after 43 days: US House sends bill to Trump ending record shutdown. W/ @jennifershutt.bsky.social & Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gove...

Trump will sign the stopgap spending bill later tonight, ending the government shutdown after 43 days

Trump administration to mostly pay full SNAP benefits 'within 24 hours' of shutdown end, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

US House expected to clear bill reopening the government after record-shattering shutdown w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social and Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-h...

US Supreme Court maintains temporary freeze on full SNAP benefits for November. Story by @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...

Speaker Johnson announces he'll swear in Arizona Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva tomorrow at 4 p.m.

The shutdown tug-of-war over SNAP benefits: a timeline from @fischler.bsky.social & @ashleymurray.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/shut...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Hemp growers, retailers targeted in section of government shutdown legislation. Story by @jennifershutt.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/hemp...

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

Shutdown battle ebbs, but Trump won’t give up trying to withhold full SNAP benefits. Story by @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/shut...

US Senate on verge of passing bill to end record-breaking shutdown, House up next. Story by @jennifershutt.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...

An update with six more killed Sunday. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Via Ariana Figueroa: President Donald Trump announced on Monday he pardoned his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other people allegedly involved in the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but the president’s federal pardon does not shield members of the group from state charges.

FDA to remove black box warning from hormone replacement therapy drugs, reports @jennifershutt.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fda-...

US Supreme Court temporarily blocks November SNAP payments, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...

We have updated this once more after Trump appealed to the Supreme Court to block the order that led to the memo that November SNAP would be fully funded.

Air travel snarls as cutbacks due to government shutdown begin, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/air-...

Struggle in US Senate over government shutdown likely to drag through the weekend www.newsfromthestates.com/article/stru...

Full November SNAP benefits to be issued by Trump administration despite shutdown, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/full...

Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges

US Senate fails to pass war powers resolution blocking Trump attacks on Venezuela. Story by @ashleymurray.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...

Supreme Court OKs for now Trump passport policy that targets trans people. Story by Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/supr...

Trump administration ordered to pay full $9B in November SNAP benefits amid shutdown, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

US Senate talks continue on end to 37-day shutdown, but final deal elusive. W/ @ashleymurray.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-s...

Federal judge in Rhode Island is ordering the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November, saying the USDA lost the discretion to pay partial benefits when it failed to get those funds to recipients fast enough. "USDA arbitrarily and capriciously created this problem." Story TK

Here are airports hit by the FAA pullback on air traffic; 3,300 flights daily to be canceled, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/here...

All 50 states will vie for funds from $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. Story by Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/all-...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

USDA revises SNAP benefit amounts during shutdown after admitting miscalculation, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/usda...

Yo!! Giordano’s “The 1” for Chicago Style Pizza’ coming to Penn Quarter!! www.popville.com/2025/11/gior...

Via Ariana Figueroa: U.S. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who made history as the first woman to hold the speaker’s gavel, announced Thursday she will retire, ending a 40-year legislative career as one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to retire from Congress www.newsfromthestates.com/article/form...

Trump administration limits some flights during shutdown as controllers show strain. Story by @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Trump tariffs undergo intense scrutiny from US Supreme Court justices. Story by @ashleymurray.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.

JUST IN from @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: Following major Democratic wins in local and state elections across the country on Election Day, top Democratic congressional leaders pushed for a meeting with the president to end the federal government shutdown. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/demo...

"Several teachers fled with a student and hid in a back of a pickup truck, 'terrified of being found,' Meadow said. 'They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school — they didn’t know,' Meadow said."

Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection. The arrest reportedly took place in front of children. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

Oh — the situation has escalated. Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in. "Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

Flights resume at Reagan National Airport after ‘security threat’ causes ground stoppage

A defiant Trump vows no SNAP payments until Democrats cave on shutdown, reports @fischler.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/defi...

BREAKING: All flights have been halted at D.C.'s Reagan National Airport over security concerns

Congress remains deadlocked, with government shutdown now on day 35. W/ Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/cong...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

It’s small businesses versus Trump in tariff case before the Supreme Court. Story by @ashleymurray.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/its-...