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The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether SNAP payments should resume in full

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: snap,Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,Supreme Court 💡 Key idea: It is up to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress to decide when full payments will resume under the SNAP food assistance program that helps 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries, with some wondering how they will feed their families without government assistance. Read more: “You can't raise $8 billion.” Here's what to know about SNAP benefits interruption The Supreme Court is expected to rule Tuesday on a request by President Donald Trump's administration to continue blocking states from…

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8 Democrats voted with Republicans on the closure deal. Here’s what they had to say about why

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✨ Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Government Shutdown,jeanne shaheen,John Thune,senate 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators — eight in total — faced almost immediate backlash from members of their own party when they voted to let the Senate move forward with compromise legislation that would reopen the government. Their decision Sunday night was called "betrayal" and "pathetic" by some of the most prominent voices in the Democratic Party. Read more: A handful of Senate Democrats have joined with the GOP to break the funding gridlock, the first step…

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How scandals at the BBC have shaken its leadership over the years

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: BBC,boris johnson,Donald Trump news,jimmy savile 📌 Key idea: LONDON (AP) — The BBC's commander-in-chief and head of news have resigned over criticism of how the broadcaster edited US President Donald Trump's speech before some of his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The scandal that led to Sunday's resignations is not the first controversy to hit the publicly funded BBC - or to oust one of its leaders. The BBC was founded editorially independent in 1922 to be impartial, to act in the public…

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WATCH: Jefferies says Democrats will continue to fight for health care tax breaks as shutdown deal advances

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: chuck schumer,congress,Government Shutdown,Hakeem Jeffries,health care ✅ Main takeaway: Democratic senators who voted for the government funding bill on Sunday “will have to explain themselves,” House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said. Watch the Jefferies news conference in the video player above. “But the vast majority of Senate Democrats are still in the district fighting to fix our broken health care system,” Jeffries said. Read more: 8 Democrats voted with Republicans on the closure deal. Here's what they had to say about why He speaks to reporters…

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WATCH: When Trump was asked about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s criticism, he said, “She’s lost her way.”

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: When asked about Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's criticism that he is too focused on foreign policy and should focus more on affordability issues in the United States, President Donald Trump turned on his Republican ally on Monday. Watch the clip in our video player above. "I don't know what happened to Marjorie, nice woman," Trump told reporters. "She's lost her way, I think." Read more: Trump hosts Syrian Sharaa in a meeting that is the first of its kind in the White House…

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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter talk about the deal to end the government shutdown

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💥 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Politics Monday 📌 Main takeaway: Jeff Bennett: Well, it was a busy Monday here in Washington following the late-night vote to pave the way for ending the longest US government shutdown ever.We're now joined by the Monday Politics duo. This is Amy Walter from The Cook Policy Report with NPR's Amy Walter and Tamara Keith.It's great to see you both.So, Tam, how do you explain this deal by the seven Democrats and the independent senator caucus with the Democrats to join with the Republicans and eventually…

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Al-Sharaa meets Trump at the White House as Syria seeks closer relations with the West

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Ahmed al-Sharaa,Donald Trump news,ISIS,Syria 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Amna Nawaz: Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met with President Trump today, in the first visit by a Syrian leader to the White House since the country’s independence nearly 80 years ago. Jeff Bennett: As Nick Schifrin reported, Damascus today joined the global coalition to combat ISIS, and the Trump administration extended temporary sanctions relief. Nick Shiffrin: Today in the Oval Office, a partnership that was once unimaginable, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, a former prisoner of American forces, was welcomed into…

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News Wrap: Supreme Court rejects request to reconsider same-sex marriage decision

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: news wrap ✅ Main takeaway: In our news cover on Monday, the Supreme Court decided not to reconsider its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, the US military carried out two new raids on alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific, and officials in the Philippines say Typhoon Phuong Wong has killed at least eight people and forced more than a million to evacuate. Jeff Bennett: Also today, the US Supreme Court decided not to reconsider its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. The justices rejected, without comment, an…

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Trump pardons dozens of allies who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: 2020 election,Donald Trump news,pardons ✅ Main takeaway: As President Trump continues to promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, he has taken a new step to protect former administration officials and allies who have been accused of working to overturn the election won by Joe Biden. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports on the president's series of pardons. Jeff Bennett: As President Trump continues to promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, he has taken a new step to protect former administration officials…

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Senator Murphy says Trump is “likely encouraged” by 8 Democrats voting to end the shutdown

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: chris murphy,connecticut,Government Shutdown,senate democrats ✅ Main takeaway: Amna Nawaz: On the other side of the debate, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut is one of the Democrats who voted against the deal. I spoke to him earlier today.Senator Murphy, welcome back to The News Hour. Thank you for joining us. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut): Thanks for having me. Amna Nawaz: So, as you just heard, Senator Kaine laid out his reasons for supporting the deal. He says it ends the pain Americans feel, and paves the way for…

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