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11/23/2025

Donald Glover has opened up about a major health scare — a stroke and a heart abnormality — that forced him to cancel his 2024 global tour and reevaluate his life on stage.

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Donald Glover has opened up about a major health scare — a stroke and a heart abnormality — that forced him to cancel his 2024 global tour and reevaluate his life on stage. What We Know: Glover, 42…

11/10/2025

The United States Senate brokered a deal late Sunday night to extend federal government funding through January, to end the longest U.S. shutdown in history but it still faces hurdles.
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After 40 days of a shutdown, a tentative bipartisan agreement to reopen the government has been proposed — yet the real benefits appear unevenly distributed. What We Know The United States Senate b…

11/10/2025

Today, November 9, USDA sent a memo instructing states to undo any full-benefit SNAP payments made under the court order, saying those payments were “unauthorized” and warning states they might face penalties or loss of administrative funds.
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What We Know Amid the federal government shutdown beginning November 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) initially directed states to issue reduced benefits, but then a federal court…

11/08/2025

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Orders a Stay on SNAP Benefits Case — But It’s Not What You Think

When you see that Justice Jackson “let benefits be held back,” it’s accurate to the effect, but incomplete if you interpret it as her refusing to fund benefits. She paused a court enforcement order; she did not make a final call on whether full funding was legally required.

What We Know A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered that the Trump administration fully fund November SNAP benefits for roughly 42 million people. The administration announced that it would only p…

10/29/2025

Have things gotten better or worse under Trump?

10/29/2025

Wronged for 43 Years, Still Not Free — The Double Injustice of Subu Vedam

For 43 years, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam sat behind bars in Pennsylvania — convicted of a 1980 murder for which new evidence now proves he did not pull the trigger. He emerged, at age 64, a freed man only to be snatched by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and handed a fresh fight: one that threatens to ship him out of the only home he’s ever known.

For 43 years, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam sat behind bars in Pennsylvania — convicted of a 1980 murder for which new evidence now proves he did not pull the trigger. He emerged, at age 64, a freed man…

10/29/2025

Cultureless White People Say Mamdani Lied About ‘Aunt’ Because They Don’t Understand Black, Brown Family Dynamics

Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty My mother only has one sister. I call her “aunt” or “auntie.” There are also several other older women on my mom’s side of the family I call “aunt” or “auntie.” …

10/29/2025

Fetty Wap’s Viral Prison Photo Ignites Movement

A newly surfaced behind-bars photo of Fetty Wap has ignited a viral social media campaign, prompting fans to rally around calls to free the artist as his legal troubles continue to make headlines. …

10/28/2025

Tyler Perry backs Marvin Winans with $100,000 donation to Perfecting Church of Detroit after controversy

Should he have gotten involved?

Photos: Getty Images The generous donation comes one week after Winians went viral during the church’s annual “Day of Giving.” Tyler Perry is standing by Bishop Marvin Winans during a time when the…

10/28/2025

Politics Watch: Lawsuit Could Flip New York’s Only Republican District

A new lawsuit filed by New York voters challenges the state’s only GOP-held congressional seat, arguing the map unfairly weakens Black and Latino voting power in Staten Island and southern Brooklyn…

10/27/2025

Brooklyn Slasher’s Rampage: Suspect Sought After Series of Unprovoked Attacks

Law-enforcement officials are on the hunt for a suspected attacker who slashed at least three men in rapid succession across Brooklyn this past weekend in apparently random assaults. What We Know: …

10/27/2025

Congresswoman Maxine Waters isn't pleased with President Trump's pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao "appalling but unsurprising."