WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of travelers had their flights delayed or canceled on Sunday in the worst day for disruptions since the start of a U.S. government shutdown, as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned of worse to come in the run-up to the Thanksgiving holiday. Airlines canceled more than...
Kenya Says Vice President Vance Has Cancelled Planned Visit
Vice President JD Vance has called off a visit to Kenya planned for later this month after his expected trip to the G20 summit in South Africa was cancelled by President Donald Trump, the East African nation's government said on Monday. Vance had planned to visit Kenya, one of Washington's...
Kushner in Israel as Trapped Hamas Fighters Issue Bedevils Gaza Truce Progress
JERUSALEM/CAIRO — U.S. mediators met Israel's prime minister on Monday with attention turning to the second, far more complex, phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal and the immediate problem of a standoff over a group of Hamas fighters still holed up in tunnels. The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump's...
Trump Maintains Request for Supreme Court to Halt Judge’s Food Aid Funding Order
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday told the U.S. Supreme Court that it continues to seek a halt of a judge's order requiring it to fully fund food aid for 42 million low-income Americans this month even as lawmakers take steps toward ending the federal government shutdown. Lawyers for the...
8 Senators Break Ranks With Democrats and Advance GOP Plan to End Shutdown
Eight senators in the Democratic caucus broke with the party late Sunday to vote with Republicans and advance legislation to end the government shutdown. The compromise measure that passed by a 60-40 vote came with a pledge from Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the majority leader, to allow a vote in...
Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Halt Full Food Stamp Funding
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court late Sunday denied another attempt by the Trump administration to withhold full federal funding for food stamps, the latest twist in the saga over the fate of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program. The decision came as Congress inched closer to reopening the government, offering...
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
President Donald Trump has granted pardons to his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and a wide array of other people accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to the Justice Department’s pardon attorney. The pardon attorney, Ed Martin, a lawyer who has long supported the...
US Supreme Court to Hear Republican Bid to Limit Counting of Mail-in Ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Mississippi's defense of a state law challenged by Republicans that allows a five-day grace period for mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, a case that could lead to stricter voting rules around the country. The justices took up...
Man Injured in Shooting Outside Madera Supermarket
A man was hospitalized Saturday evening after being shot in the parking lot of the Rancho San Miguel Supermarket in Madera, police said. Officers arrived to find an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Madera...
Wall Street Gains as Hopes of Government Reopening Bolster Sentiment
Wall Street's main indexes gained on Monday, following signs of progress in Washington to end a record government shutdown that has stalled economic data releases and intensified concerns over the state of the economy. On Sunday, senators advanced a House-passed bill in a procedural vote that will be amended to...