Gaza, Hamas and aid truck
Digest more
Trump threatens food aid
Digest more
A new study reveals that melatonin supplements may increase heart failure risk by 90% in chronic insomnia patients, challenging assumptions about this popular sleep aid.
One in eight Americans use federal food aid but halting the SNAP program would hurt Black Americans more than anyone else.
An injection of $450 million for WIC comes as the Trump administration announced it would only fund partial benefits for another food aid program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP,
Nearly 3 million low-income New Yorkers will get partial SNAP food aid for November after judges forced the Trump administration to fund the program.
Pell Grants and federal student loans will still be processed. However, the speed of new FAFSA applications may slow down due to staff furloughs at the Department of Education and the Federal Student Aid program,
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.
Some are calling on Gov. Maura Healey and state lawmakers to tap into the state's $8 billion rainy-day fund to make up the difference due to partial funding of SNAP in November. Raise Up Massachusetts, a labor-funded advocacy group that organized to pass the state's millionaires tax in 2022, wants Healey to take that step.
Haiti’s government says that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa has risen to 43 and that 13 others are still missing.
In one Truth Social post announcing aid for Alaska, he noted he "won BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024" within the state.
Pennsylvania’s legislature has not passed a budget for more than 120 days, freezing critical state funds on top of the federal government shutdown.
President Donald Trump's administration said on Monday it plans to partially fund November food benefits for millions of Americans, but warned it could take some states weeks or months to calculate and distribute the aid.