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'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled'

November 9, 2025 5:46PM ET A Pennsylvania Trump voter says he regrets his vote and that the president's conduct in office is a "complete betrayal" of his vote, reports The Daily Beast. Morgen Morgus, a self-described Libertarian, writes in a letter to the editor of USA Today that "A year after the president election, I feel completely swindled. If the presidential election were held today—with the same candidates—I would sit it out,” he went on. “There was a hope that they woul ...

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Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, other key figures allegedly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election

President Donald Trump issued a sweeping pardon to key figures allegedly involved in the plan to arrange an alternate slate of electors and "expose voting fraud" during the 2020 election, according to U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin. Trump pardoned high-profile individuals allegedly involved in his attempt to overturn the election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman and Mark Meadows -- and 72 other individuals allegedly associated with the effort to c ...

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'The whole thing is imploding': Chaos erupts inside America's top right-wing think tank

November 9, 2025 3:57PM ET Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation has become what its president, Kevin Roberts, now hails as the “intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement. It crafted the policy blueprint that powered President Ronald Reagan’s right-wing revolution — and today, under Roberts’s leadership, it’s once again shaping the machinery of power. Through its highly controversial Project 2025 — a plan widely credited to Roberts as its chief architect — Heritage laid out a ro ...

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Trump administration cannot withhold $4 billion for food aid, US appeals court rules

BOSTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court late on Sunday allowed a judge's order to stand that directs U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to fully fund this month's food aid benefits for 42 million low-income Americans during the ongoing U.S. Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to halt Thursday's decision by a Rhode Island judge requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to spend $4 billion set aside for other purposes to ensure Americans receive full ...

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Trump's assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom: 'a wholesale attack on free and fair elections'

Sun 9 Nov 2025 07.00 EST Last modified on Sun 9 Nov 2025 17.45 EST A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies. While Democratic leaders continue to invest their hopes in a “blue wave” to overt ...

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Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown

(Politico) Senators have reached a deal to end the government shutdown. The broad framework for agreement, which was negotiated in part by Sens. Angus King, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan as well as GOP senators, has “more than enough” members of the Senate Democratic Caucus to advance, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose the terms. The deal, said one of the people, was brokered between the Democratic negotiators, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the White House. Members of the Appropriations Committee were also closely involved and helped negotiate the terms.

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Senate near deal to reopen government

As many as 10 Democratic senators are expected to vote for a bill to reopen the government as soon as Sunday evening or early Monday morning, as a group of moderate Democrats, and even some liberals, are ready to end the 40-day shutdown. Centrist Democrats and Republican members of the Senate Appropriations Committee were close to reaching a deal last week to reopen the government, but it was delayed by strong pushback from Senate progressives who urged their Democratic colleagues to hold out fo ...

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US air travel will fall to a trickle due to shutdown, transportation secretary says

November 9, 2025 11:29 AM EST Updated 3 hours ago WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - U.S. flights will be reduced to "a trickle" in the run-up to the Thanksgiving holiday as the federal shutdown continues because of rising air traffic control staffing shortages, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in remarks that aired on Sunday. Major airlines were dealing with a third day of government-mandated flight cuts after thousands of delays and cancellations snarled traffic on Saturday. Th ...

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Bessent says no formal White House health care proposal as shutdown drags on

November 9, 2025, 10:46 AM Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that there is no formal proposal from the White House to defund the Affordable Care Act and instead send money directly to Americans, despite a social media post from President Donald Trump on Saturday promoting such a plan. "The president has also come forward with a new proposal overnight, saying it's time, instead, to do away with Obamacare and said to have the money go directly to the people. Do you have a forma ...

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GOP Lawmaker Claims He Has 'Repeatedly' Asked Mike Johnson To Bring Back The House To 'Get Us Out Of This Mess'

12h Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) claimed on Fox News on Saturday that he has "repeatedly" asked House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the House back into session so lawmakers can work the country out of the government shutdown "mess." "No one is winning here when you're looking at people who are losing their SNAP benefits. When you look at a million-plus federal employees being furloughed or missing paychecks. No one is winning here at all," Kiley said. "Wha ...

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Democrats seek investigation into agency messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown

20 min ago - Nov. 10, 2025, 5:00 AM EST WASHINGTON — A group of Senate Democrats is pushing for an investigation into the Trump administration’s use of federal agency websites and emails to post partisan messages blaming Democrats for the government shu ... (NBC News)

Judge to ponder challenge to West Virginia National Guard deployment in the nation's capital

52 min ago - Updated 12:12 AM EST, November 10, 2025 A court in West Virginia is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the deployment of the state National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s push to ... (AP)

Ghislaine Maxwell plans to ask Trump to commute prison sentence, House Democrats say

1 hr ago - Scott MacFarlane November 10, 2025 / 5:07 AM EST Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking co-conspirator, is planning to apply for a commutation of her federal prison sentence, which is set to run through 2037, according to documents o ... (CBS news)

Jeffries says Democrats will 'definitely' win back House control in 2026

1 hr ago - 11/09/25 10:54 PM ET House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday he’s confident Democrats will take back the House in the 2026 midterm elections and is optimistic about his party’s chances to win back control of the Senate ... (The Hill)

Growth in global demand for 'green' office buildings slows amid Trump policies

2 hrs ago - Sun 9 Nov 2025 19.01 EST The growth in global demand for “green” office buildings has slowed after Donald Trump’s assault on environmental protection policies caused a slump in interest in the US, according to a survey of construction ... (The Guardian)

SNAP Benefits Update: Court Provides New Timeline For November Payments

2 hrs ago - Published Nov 10, 2025 at 02:23 AM EST updated Nov 10, 2025 at 04:24 AM EST A 48-hour deadline for the Trump administration to make full SNAP benefit payments for November kicked in late Sunday after the First Circuit appeals court denied its request ... (Newsweek)

'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled'

3 hrs ago - November 9, 2025 5:46PM ET A Pennsylvania Trump voter says he regrets his vote and that the president's conduct in office is a "complete betrayal" of his vote, reports The Daily Beast. Morgen Morgus, a self-described Libertarian, writes in a letter t ... (Raw Story)

Trump's assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom: 'a wholesale attack on free and fair elections'

4 hrs ago - Sun 9 Nov 2025 07.00 EST Last modified on Sun 9 Nov 2025 17.45 EST A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged at ... (The Guardian)

Trump administration cannot withhold $4 billion for food aid, US appeals court rules

4 hrs ago - BOSTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court late on Sunday allowed a judge's order to stand that directs U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to fully fund this month's food aid benefits for 42 million low-income Americans during the o ... (Reuters)

Moore on redistricting fight: Maryland not 'going to sit on our hands'

4 hrs ago - 11/09/25 4:07 PM ET Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said Sunday his state is not “going to sit on our hands” amid the nationwide redistricting fight. Last week, Moore formed a redistricting advisory commission to explore redrawing Maryland’ ... (The Hill)

'The whole thing is imploding': Chaos erupts inside America's top right-wing think tank

5 hrs ago - November 9, 2025 3:57PM ET Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation has become what its president, Kevin Roberts, now hails as the “intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement. It crafted the policy blueprint that powered President ... (Raw Story)

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, other key figures allegedly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election

6 hrs ago - President Donald Trump issued a sweeping pardon to key figures allegedly involved in the plan to arrange an alternate slate of electors and "expose voting fraud" during the 2020 election, according to U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin. Trump pardoned h ... (ABC)

Meteorologists warn of 'intense' snow in Great Lakes states and record lows in South

8 hrs ago - By SOPHIA TAREEN Updated 4:50 PM CST, November 9, 2025 Leer en español CHICAGO (AP) — Large swaths of the U.S. prepared for one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather Sunday as temperatures dipped and snow fell in the Northe ... (AP)

Reagan judge vacates lifetime gig to slam Trump: 'I no longer can bear to be restrained'

11 hrs ago - November 9, 2025 1:00PM ET A federal judge hand-picked by former President Ronald Reagan is stepping down from his lifetime appointment in protest of President Donald Trump, who he accused of launching an “assault on the rule of law.” “ ... (Raw Story)

Senate advances plan to end historic shutdown in bipartisan breakthrough

12 hrs ago - The Senate voted to break the shutdown stalemate Sunday, paving the way for the government to reopen as soon as later this week. The 60-40 vote to take the first step toward ending the shutdown came hours after enough Democrats agreed to support a pa ... (Politico)

Trump's historic cut to refugee program poised to face legal challenges

12 hrs ago - 11/09/25 12:00 PM ET Refugee advocates are considering litigation after President Trump moved to cut refugee figures to their lowest level in history while favoring admissions for white South Africans. Trump last week set a cap that would allow the ... (The Hill)

Adam Schiff says he is shocked by 'cruelty' motivating SNAP policy

13 hrs ago - 11/09/2025 12:55 PM EST Sen. Adam Schiff said Sunday that “cruelty” seems to be motivating the Trump administration’s policies on food aid for needy Americans. Speaking to host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” ... (Politico)

Credit card companies near deal over charging stores - and it could have a big impact on how you shop

13 hrs ago - Sunday 09 November 2025 14:14 EST Visa and Mastercard are negotiating a settlement with merchants that will reduce fees - but could also see vendors refusing certain credit cards, according to a new report. The terms of the deal would lower fees that ... (The Independent)

'Hateful Rhetoric!' GOP Senator Thoroughly Condemns Nick Fuentes When Confronted By NBC's Welker

13 hrs ago - Nov 9th, 2025, 2:14 pm Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) denounced Nick Fuentes for “hateful rhetoric” that he says does not represent conservatives or Americans in any way during an appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday morning. Moderator Krist ... (MEDIAite)

Flight cuts from government shutdown strain a supply chain that's already stretched thin

14 hrs ago - Updated 11:12 AM EST, November 9, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement of a 10% reduction in flight capacity across 40 major U.S. airports could put a strain on air cargo as the peak holiday season approac ... (AP)

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