Trump administration demands states 'undo' full SNAP payouts as states warn of 'catastrophic impact' President Donald Trump's administration is demanding that states reverse full SNAP benefits issued under recent court orders. The U.S.

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Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

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Last month, 8 Israeli settlers broke into the home of Mahmoud Dramin, a Palestinian farmer in south of Hebron.

They smashed the windows of his house, then sprayed tear gas into his home. Four relatives were hospitalized for gas inhalation. The settlers also killed six of the family's lambs. Cruel.

Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 69,000, local health officials say as more bodies are exchanged Gaza health officials report over 69,000 Palestinians have died in the Israel-Hamas war. The death toll has risen due to bodies being recovered since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10.

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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months

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U.S. steps up presence in Gaza to support fragile ceasefire The move relegates Israel to a secondary role in determining how and what humanitarian relief can enter Gaza, according to people familiar with the transition.

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Trump Has One Mission: To Make Your Life Hell Tuesday’s elections should have been a wake-up call for Republicans. Instead, the administration is responding in the only way it knows how: causing more misery for millions of Americans.

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Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.

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They Tried to Smear Zohran Mamdani as an Antisemite. Voters Saw Right Through It. Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City means so much — including the repudiation of Islamophobic attacks and weaponization of antisemitism.

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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

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Torture in Israeli prisons rose sharply during war, says freed Palestinian author Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza conflict and tells of struggle to adjust to life outside

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Ex-IDF legal chief held for video leak showing abuse of Gaza detainee Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted releasing the footage, saying “there are acts that must not be committed, even against the most despicable of detainees.”

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‘Olives are everything for us’: West Bank farmers prevented from harvesting by settler violence About 70% of town’s olives are inaccessible without risking a potentially fatal clash with Israeli settlers

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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

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We Asked People in Gaza What They Think of the Ceasefire: “Just a Declaration, Not Reality” Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagreed.

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Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who Exactly It’s Killing in Boat Strikes Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.

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Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI allegations that his 20-year-old client and four others planned a terror attack on Halloween weekend.

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The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job

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The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry Schmoozing the super-rich to fund a $300m ballroom while cutting food aid for those on low incomes threw the president’s architectural folly into sharp relief

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Trump Boat Bombings Worsen as New Horror Shakes Experts: “Alarm Bells” Remember the Southern Command admiral who resigned two weeks ago? Hill Republicans haven’t heard from him—and they don’t apparently want to.

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Advocates allege ‘inhumane’ conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility in new lawsuit Illinois advocates have sued federal authorities over alleged inhumane conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility.

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Classified U.S. report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations The report found “hundreds” of possible Israeli human rights violations, further complicating a process to review credible allegations against IDF military units in Gaza.

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The Five ingredients of Zorhan's Secret Sauce Anyone who wants to lead America out of the Trumpian darkness can do so with these

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Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

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Trump’s Yemen Strike Killed 61 Immigrants and No Combatants The attack on Sa’ada detention center violated humanitarian law and should be investigated as a war crime, says Amnesty International.

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Israel Executes 9-year-old Palestinian Child in West Bank, Netanyahu Resumes Bombing Gaza The Israeli military has killed more than 100 Palestinians since the "ceasefire" and still faces no accountability while western media remains largely silent

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Israeli strikes kill more than 100 people in Gaza, including 46 children Israel said the strikes were a response to alleged violations of the ceasefire by Hamas.

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The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that Americans owe roughly $220 billion in medical debt. In Republican-controlled states like South Dakota, Mississippi, West Virginia and Georgia, roughly one in six Americans have outstanding medical debt, according to the KFF.

From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

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