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Trump administration will tap emergency fund to pay partial food stamp benefits

Trump administration will tap emergency fund to pay partial food stamp benefits5 hours agoShareSaveAna FaguyShareSaveGetty ImagesUS President Donald Trump's administration has said it will provide reduced food aid to more than 42 million Americans, as the government shutdown this week heads towards becoming the longest ever with no resolution in sight.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a court filing that Americans who receive food assistance will get half their normal monthly allotment, after the government dipped into emergency funding.
Judges had given the Trump administration until Monday to provide a plan for how it would pay out Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits, also known as food stamps.
Funding for the programme has been in limbo due to the more-than-month-long shutdown.
While individual US states administer the benefits, the programme relies on money from the federal government, which has been unfunded and shut down since 1 October..

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‘Criticize me all you want’: Kash Patel shields girlfriend Alexis Wilkins from trolling, says she’s a true patriot

Kash Patel called Alexis Wilkins a true patriot shutting down trolls. FBI director Kash Patel put out a statement amid the new allegations against him that he went to attend his girlfriend's performance in Pennsylvania on a $60 million FBI jet. FBI directors are not allowed to travel on any commercial plane and are supposed to use FBI jet for their personal use too paying reimbursement for that. But a former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin sensationalized this as he brought this to the notice of the people on his podcast as he said: “We’re in the middle of a government shutdown where they’re not even gonna pay all of the employees that work for the agency that this guy is jetting off to hang out with his girlfriend in Nashville on our dime?”FBI clarified that Patel always pays reimbursement in advance and his personal use is limited as he's always on FBI duty .But the FBI director made it a point to send across a message to “supposed allies” who are staying silent when he and his par..

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Pointing gun at Anita Anand’s photo: Canada ministers condemn protest outside Indian consulate, call it ‘vile and unacceptable’

Canada ministers condemned the SFJ protest in which a placard had minister Anita Anand's face merging with that of Indira Gandhi and two turbaned individuals pointing their guns at her. Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand's photo was merged into a photo of former Indian PM Indira Gandhi and two turbaned individuals — part of the placard — were pointing guns at her. Sikhs for Justice protesters outside the Indian consulate in Toronto displayed such a placard, drawing sharp reaction from Canadian ministers.”Targeting a public official with threats or violence undermines our democracy. At a recent protest, there was a deeply disturbing depiction of guns being pointed at a photo of Minister Anand. We condemn these acts of hate unequivocally. There is no place for this in Canada,” Secretary of state for international development Randeep Sarai said.Public safety minister Gary Anandasangaree did not mention Anita Anand's name as he wrote: “A recent protest in Toronto showed..

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‘That’s harsh’: CNN’s Tapper taken aback by Treasury boss Bessent’s Blue Jays dig after epic World Series Game 7 loss

Scott Bessent didn’t miss his opportunity to take a dig at Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the Toronto Blue Jays after their heartbreaking World Series defeat during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN with Jake Tapper.
The U.S. Treasury Secretary pushed back when asked by Tapper about President Donald Trump’s plans to levy additional tariffs against Canada after, accusing Ontario officials of election interference.
.”He didn't put on a 10 percent tariff, he threatened to put on a 10 percent tariff,” Bessent said. “And Jake, this is unacceptable. I read the premier of Ontario spent $75 million sending propaganda across the U.S. border —”
Tapper cut him off and reminded him that the “propaganda” he was mentioning was just former footage of Ronald Reagan speaking about tariffs in his own words. Bessent ignored the comment and did not engage with Tapper's clarification.
“It's the equivalent of election interference,” Bessent continued. “Nobody likes foreign election interfer..

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Mississippi woman kills monkey that escaped from overturned truck outside her home: ‘I did what any other mother would do’

A Mississippi woman shot and killed one of the monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last week because she reportedly feared for the safety of her children.
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Jessica Bond Ferguson told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that's when he fell.”
Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, grabbed her gun on Sunday when her eldest son told her he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi.
When she stepped outside, she spotted the monkey about 60 feet away from her. The Mississippi mom said she and other residents had been warned about the diseases that the escaped monkeys carried so she fired her gun.
open image in galleryA truck loaded with caged Rehsus monkeys crashed on Interstate 59, north of Heidelberg, on TuesdayThe Jasper County Sheriff's Office confirmed in a social ..

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Mexican mayor gunned down during Day of the Dead celebrations

AdvertisementMexicoWorldAmericasMexican mayor gunned down during Day of the Dead celebrationsCarlos Alberto Manzo Rodriguez was killed on Saturday in Uruapan by an unidentified man who shot him 7 times, officials said
Reading Time:2 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPAssociated PressPublished: 7:09am, 3 Nov 2025A mayor in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said.
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The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodriguez, was gunned down on Saturday night in the town’s historic centre. He was rushed to a hospital, where he later died, according to state prosecutor Carlos Torres Pina.
A city council member and a bodyguard were also injured in the attack.
The attacker was killed at the scene, Federal Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch told journalists on Sunda..

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UK police release 1 of 2 men arrested over train stabbings

AdvertisementCrimeWorldEuropeUK police release 1 of 2 men arrested over train stabbings, laud ‘heroic’ rail worker11 people were injured in the attack. The train crew member who tried to stop the suspects is in a life-threatening condition, police said
Reading Time:2 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPAgenciesPublished: 6:34am, 3 Nov 2025A 32-year-old British man was the sole suspect accused of a mass stabbing on a train in England, after another man arrested in the case was released on Sunday with no charges.
AdvertisementBritish police said the knife attack that put 11 people in hospital was not a terrorist incident. A 35-year-old man who had been arrested earlier was released after officers concluded he was not involved in the attack.
By late on Sunday, five of the injured had been discharged from hospital. Among those still being treated was a member of the train crew who tried to stop the attacker. He was in a life-threatening condition, police said.
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Nato ‘will stand with Ukraine’ to get long-lasting peace, senior official tells BBC

Nato 'will stand with Ukraine' to get long-lasting peace, senior official tells BBC3 hours agoShareSaveFrank Gardnersecurity correspondent, in BahrainShareSaveBBCAdmiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone describes the war as a strategic failure for Russian President Vladimir PutinNato “will stand with Ukraine up to the day in which we will have them sitting around the table for a long-lasting peace”, a senior official from the military alliance has told the BBC.
Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of Nato's military committee since January, added from an operational point of view he considered the Russia-Ukraine war was bogged down, and “it was almost time to sit and talk because it's a waste of lives”.
Pointing to the fact that Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 had resulted in two more countries joining the Western alliance – Finland and Sweden – Adm Dragone described the war as a strategic failure for Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite recent slow, ..

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‘No help, no food, no water’: Hurricane-hit Jamaican towns desperately wait for aid

'No help, no food, no water': Hurricane-hit Jamaican towns desperately wait for aid7 hours agoShareSaveBrandon Drenonin Westmoreland, JamaicaShareSaveWatch: Hurricane Melissa – aerial view of 'ground zero' destructionFive days after Hurricane Melissa pummelled into western Jamaica with record force, residents in devastated communities along the coast are still desperately waiting for help.
Many of the roads are blocked by debris and people are isolated with little food, no power or running water, and no idea of when normalcy will return.
The government said on Saturday that at least 28 people in Jamaica have died since the hurricane hit as a monster category five storm with 185 mph (297km/h) sustained winds.
That is a near 50% jump in the death toll overnight, and the number could rise as officials clear their way into new parts of the island in the coming days.
Local official Dr Dayton Campbell told the BBC 10 of those deaths were in Westmoreland.
Westmoreland pari..

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Egypt opens $1.2B Grand Museum, showcasing Tutankhamun’s tomb in full for the first time

Near the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Egypt has officially unveiled the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a monumental project that has taken decades to complete and is now being hailed as the world’s largest archaeological museum.The museum, whose construction cost more than $1.2 billion, spans an astonishing 500,000 square metres, roughly the size of 70 football pitches, and houses around 100,000 artefacts chronicling over 7,000 years of Egyptian civilisation, from pre-dynastic cultures to the Greco-Roman era.But the greatest draw of all is the long-awaited full display of the treasures from Tutankhamun’s tomb, reunited for the first time since their discovery more than a century ago.
A century in the making: The complete Tutankhamun experienceThe discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter remains one of the most celebrated moments in archaeological history. The find, remarkably intact, offere..