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President Trump indicated Friday he would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if given "the appropriate legal direction" after a federal judge ordered officials to spend an emergency fund for the program. SNAP benefits are set to lapse Saturday amid the ongoing government shutdown, and Trump administration officials have been adamant that they would...

States are resorting to last-ditch efforts to preserve access to groceries for their residents as the federal government was ready up until its Oct. 31 deadline to stop sending out food benefits while the government shutdown drags on. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it would not be delivering Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits beginning...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Open enrollment day arrives with no subsidies in place Saturday marks the first day people who buy their own health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace can sign up for coverage, and they are going to be...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story US won't send high level officials to COP30 The U.S. won’t be sending any “high level” representatives to this year’s United Nations climate summit, a White House official told The Hill on Friday. © Peter Dejong, Associated Press file The summit, known as COP30,...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Judge orders Trump to pay SNAP with emergency funds A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beginning this weekend because of the government shutdown, ordering...

Actor Harrison Ford on Friday blasted President Trump over his lack of policies toward combatting climate change, suggesting that the president has "whims" instead. "It scares the s--- out of me," Ford told The Guardian. "The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and...

President Trump said Friday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized for an ad that used former President Reagan's criticism of tariffs in an attempt to tweak the White House's trade policies. The Ontario ad aired during the World Series game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers — and clearly irked Trump,...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back on a report Friday that the Trump administration had decided to strike military installations in Venezuela. "Your 'sources' claiming to have 'knowledge of the situation' tricked you into writing a fake story," Rubio posted on social platform X. He was responding to a Miami Herald report that said...

The U.S. won’t be sending any “high level” representatives to this year’s United Nations climate summit, a White House official told The Hill on Friday. The summit, known as COP30, will be held in Brazil next month. Traditionally at such meetings, nations discuss their plans for climate action, unveil climate-related initiatives and seek to negotiate...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and other Democrats slammed the Trump administration Friday after a judge ordered the federal government to release emergency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) amid the government shutdown.  A federal judge on Friday rejected arguments that the emergency funds can be used only for hurricanes or other uncontrollable...

The family of Virginia Giuffre praised the stripping away of Prince Andrew's titles over his alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "This normal girl from a normal family has taken down a prince," Sky Roberts, Giuffre's brother, said on "BBC Newsnight" on Thursday. "We are so proud of her." Roberts said his sister,...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put four companies on notice for marketing “unapproved fluoride-containing ingestible drugs” for use by children under the age of 3 or children at low or moderate risk of tooth decay. “This Halloween, the FDA is driving a stake through the heart of outdated science and protecting our kids...

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For decades, the Israeli, American Jewish and Christian Right forged what seemed like an ironclad alliance. If conservatives truly wanted to fight this battle, they would turn first to their own camp.