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Jolanda Jones Positions TX-18 Bid as Personal, Citing Lived Experience and Record of Wins

Her pitch centers on veterans’ care, nutrition programs, housing affordability, jobs.

Shutdown Stalls Heating Aid: Pennsylvania Delays LIHEAP to Dec. 3 as New York Puts HEAP on Hold

Shutdown Puts November SNAP at Risk as USDA Tells States to Pause EBT Prep

Missouri Nonprofit Leader on Trial Over Alleged $11 Million Diversion of Child-Meal Funds

Food Bank Lines Surge for Federal Workers in D.C. Region as Shutdown Enters Third Week

Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell Launches 2026 Reelection Bid

AI ‘Poverty Porn’ Spreads From Stock Sites to Aid Campaigns

SNAP Faces November Payment Freeze as New Work Rules Take Effect

Cardi B Condemns SNAP Cuts as Waiver Protections Near Nov. 2 Expiration Before Thanksgiving

Bolivia to Hold Oct. 19 Runoff Between Paz and Quiroga Focused on the Economy

USDA Tells States to Hold November SNAP Files as Shutdown Puts 42 Million Benefits at Risk

ICE Blocks Communion After Catholics March to Detention Center Following Pope’s Call

Cameroon’s Issa Tchiroma Bakary Declares Victory as Official Results Await Validation

Pope León XIV Meets Lula and Boric at Vatican, Confirms COP30 Delegation and Voices Sorrow Over Chile Abuse

Cameroon Opposition Candidate Issa Tchiroma Declares Victory as Official Count Continues

Police Hunt Masked Gunman After Liberty City Activist Dwight Wells Is Fatally Shot

New IPC Report Finds Hunger Deepening in Haiti, Nearly 6 Million at Risk by Mid-2026

USDA Tells States to Delay November SNAP as White House Shifts $300 Million to Keep WIC Afloat

Pope Leo XIV Centers Poor and Migrants in First Major Text, Presses U.S. Bishops on Enforcement

Free In-School Grocery Opens at Huffman Middle School for Students’ Families