Author name: Inae Oh

In the wake of the longest government shutdown in US history, an ongoing self-inflicted tariff war, and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, President Donald Trump’s approval rating has cratered to 36 percent, the lowest of his second term. Gallup, which conducted its latest poll between November 2 and 25, reports that disapproval of […]

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After months of MAGA infighting and an unusual Republican break with President Donald Trump, the GOP-controlled House on Tuesday is expected to overwhelmingly pass a bill seeking to force the Justice Department to release a huge trove of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The bill’s passage—now seen as a foregone conclusion—appears to mark a rare […]

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House Democrats on Wednesday released a set of emails in which Jeffrey Epstein called President Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” and alleged that Trump had once spent “hours at my house” with a sex trafficking victim. “[Trump] has never once been mentioned,” Epstein wrote in a 2011 email. In another 2019 email, Epstein wrote […]

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The knock-on effects from the government shutdown, now the longest in US history, continue apace, with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) cuts to air traffic at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports now officially in effect. The mandate, which kicked off on Friday with an initial 4 percent reduction, has already cancelled more than 1,700 […]

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President Trump’s vehement refusal to make full SNAP benefits available to the nearly 42 million Americans who rely on the food aid program scored a temporary win at the Supreme Court, after Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Friday temporarily allowed the federal government to continue withholding $4 billion in SNAP funding. The late-night order came […]

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As the government shutdown slouches toward a historic milestone for the longest in US history, the high-stakes battle over SNAP—the country’s largest and most critical food aid program—once again devolved into chaos on Tuesday after the president issued his latest social media rant. “SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) […]

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After dramatic losses in federal court last week, the Trump administration on Monday agreed to tap an emergency pot of money to partially fund SNAP, the nation’s largest anti-hunger program. But the administration refused to use additional sources of funding that could provide full payments to SNAP beneficiaries in November. SNAP funding had lapsed on […]

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In the final stretch of New York’s mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo appeared to embrace the Islamophobic accusation that Zohran Mamdani—the socialist candidate who would be the city’s first Muslim mayor—would celebrate a hypothetical September 11-style terrorist attack. “God forbid, another 9/11. Can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” Cuomo said during an appearance on the […]

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Mass federal layoffs that could soon become permanent. Food aid programs facing imminent disaster. Mounting recession indicators in an already stalling economy. The effects of the government shutdown, now in its fourth week, are becoming more pronounced with each day. But while previous shutdowns saw late-night efforts at the White House to try and break […]

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