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WASHINGTON — One of the U.S. government’s largest safety net programs won’t be there to catch people if the federal government shuts down next month. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides monthly food benefits to 45 million Americans, will go dark if Congress fails to pass a law funding government operations after Oct. 1, according…
START “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 The United States seems poised to follow up its summer of religious freedom with an autumn of Islamophobia. Last week, in New Hampshire, Donald Trump was questioned by a man who said President Obama was a foreign Muslim…
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz paid a visit to Stephen Colbert’s two-week old “Late Show” set last night and sat for a grilling over the legacy of conservative icon Ronald Reagan tougher than any question the Texas senator fielded at last week’s debate at Reagan’s presidential library. “Let me ask about Reagan for a second,”…
TRENTON, N.J. — Besides serving as governor and running for president, Chris Christie has another job. As commander in chief of the New Jersey National Guard, he is in charge of 8,400 citizen soldiers, a militia that has become increasingly dysfunctional under his watch. After he took office in 2010, Christie (R) reappointed a two-star…
Photo Dan Quinn was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed. Credit Kirsten Luce for The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father…
end of wrapper Jeb Bush got trolled Saturday in a hilarious photobomb by young people wearing Republicans for Sanders T-shirts. Some claim these kids wore coats, then unzipped them to reveal the logos on their T-shirts just before CNN reporter Tal Kopan snapped the photo. But the Jeb! campaign insists Bush knew what was going on and posed anyway. Why?…
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina wasn’t the greatest chief executive officer in corporate history. That much we can all agree on. Assessments of her 5 1/2 years in charge of tech giant Hewlett-Packard are everywhere these days, most of them negative. Fiorina herself offered a less-than-convincing defense in Wednesday night’s debate — yes, the company’s…
Story highlights Chris Christie says he disagrees with Pope Francis over U.S.-Cuba relations He says Pope Francis is infallible ‘on religious matters, not on political ones’ “I just think the Pope is wrong,” the New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate said Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”…
Far from destroying our democracy, he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as he is not. And changing it in the process. As the summer of Donald Trump came to its end — and the prospect of a springtime for Trump no longer seemed like a gag — the quest to…
It isn’t hard to see why nothing bad has ever quite touched Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento, Calif., even as he’s authored a long series of lurid sex and corruption scandals, any one of which would have ended the career of a less fortunate man. Johnson is a youngish, attractive Democrat with a reputation as…