WASHINGTON (AP) — The crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington were coming to a head Saturday (Nov. 1) as the federal food assistance program faced delays and millions of ...

Massachusetts and Rhode Island gave the administration leeway on whether to fund the program partially or in full for November.

Now, a string of negative revelations about Platner—among them that he had an apparent Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest—have ...

Get live updates and the latest news as the government shutdown hits the one month mark, with Trump administration promising military paychecks but not SNAP funds.

Your government is failing you right now. Poverty is not red or blue,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a Capitol Hill press conference alongside House Speaker Mike ...

A second federal judge in Boston ruled that the government is “required” to continue providing SNAP benefits, but that she would give officials until Nov. 3 to decide how to do so.

The Illinois State Senate passed a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state. The legislation (SB 1950 ), ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune's stance on the filibuster is "unchanged" despite President Trump's call to scrap the rule to end the government shutdown. Follow live updates here.

The rulings came a day before the Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the nation’s biggest food aid ...