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About 42 million Americans – including 16 million children – stand to lose federal food assistance on Saturday as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) expires amid the government shutdown, and Republican lawmakers and officials are scrambling to shift blame away from President Donald Trump.

“If 42 million Americans go hungry, it won’t be because of what the White House did, it was because we didn’t pass the budget,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), NOTUS reported Tuesday. Hawley, who’s among the Trump’s strongest supporters in the Senate, is not the only Republican working to help lessen the political fallout from tens of millions of Americans being left without food assistance.

Nine months into Donald Trump's second presidency, The Roosevelt Institute is releasing a report on Joe Biden's presidency that, according to The New Republic's Greg Sargent, "seeks to diagnose" his administration's "governing mistakes and failures" and includes input from "nearly four dozen" ex-Biden officials.

Sargent, in an article published on October 28, offers some takeaways on its findings.

As Republicans eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in a pivotal Voting Rights Act case that could potentially change or eliminate the protection of racial communities of interest in redistricting, they are making plans to erase majority-Black and Hispanic districts in states they control.

However, as Politico reported on Tuesday, they face one key obstacle in this scheme: It's unlikely such a ruling could be made in time to have any impact on the 2026 midterm elections.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol over its alleged links to autism in children.

The state became the first to sue Johnson & Johnson and spinoff company Kenvue after President Donald Trump claimed that using the over-the-counter pain reliever during pregnancy can cause autism, although no such link has been proven, reported The Texas Tribune.

President Donald Trump was warned that one of his longtime allies was running an old-fashioned shakedown scheme during last year's post-election transition period, but he ignored that warning and kept him on.

ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl appeared Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss his newly released book, "Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America," which reveals new details on the incoming administration's efforts to staff the government.

The Venezuelan government said Monday night that they had foiled a Trump administration-backed plot to stage a “false flag” attack on a U.S. warship currently stationed just off its shore, The Independent reported Tuesday.

Yvan Gil Pinto, the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, said in a statement late Monday night that members of a “CIA-funded criminal cell” had been arrested after officials learned of what Pinto labeled a “CIA-directed false flag operation” designed to “justify an aggression against our country.”

An attorney specializing in consumer protection is sounding the alarm as the Trump administration prepares to enact a new policy that could tank credit ratings for millions of Americans.

A total of 15 states currently have laws that limit medical debt from impacting individuals' credit scores, laws that were enacted under the Biden administration, which in early 2025 issued a new rule that would have removed all medical debt from credit reports, eliminating an estimated $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from credit reports.

E. Jean Carroll pinpointed the precise moment that Donald Trump lost in her massive defamation lawsuit and vividly described his bizarre behavior during the trial.

A jury awarded the 81-year-old journalist $83.3 million after she accused the once and future president of defaming her by calling her a liar for alleging that he had sexually assaulted her decades ago, and she told the Daily Beast Podcast that jurors could not take their eyes off the spectacle he made of himself in the New York courtroom.

Over 100 former FBI officials spoke out against the indictment of James Comey, the bureau's former director, on Monday in a court filing.

The Washington Post reported on Monday that the officials filed an amicus brief to U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, who is presiding over the Comey case, arguing that the charges should be dismissed. They reasoned that President Donald Trump's comments about the case demonstrate that Comey's indictment is more about exacting "personal retribution" instead of carrying out justice.

A federal judge slammed two Trump administration officials on Monday for making statements in court that the judge reasoned were "simply inaccurate," according to a new report.

Politico reported on Monday that U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw said Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have made inaccurate public remarks about a high-profile immigrant named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year before being brought back.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia, developed by his company xAI, went live on Monday after months of MAGA railing against the popular internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia. But a new report points out that Musk's version of Wikipedia appears to be "cribbing" information from the original version.

Musk promised to launch a more conservative version of Wikipedia after saying Wikipedia was "woke" because it cited articles from The New York Times and NPR. The new version, which runs on a large language model, still cites from these sources, but has changed the framing of some prominent events in U.S. history, such as the January 6 insurrection and President Donald Trump's election loss in 2020.

Under President Donald Trump, immigration officials have been unleashed to terrorize immigrants as they wish, often sending masked and unidentified agents to whisk them into vehicles. But things could be about to get a whole lot worse, National Immigration Center fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick fears.

That's because, according to Fox News, the Trump administration is moving forward with massive leadership changes at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that throw out all the remaining people who might have been a constraint on his agenda.

Democratic analyst Brian Tyler Cohen unmasked what he sees as a GOP plot underpinning the government shutdown during a new episode of the "Brian Tyler Cohen" podcast on Monday.

The federal government has been shut down for almost a month, which has put government services from food stamps to air traffic control in jeopardy. Republicans have blamed Democrats for not signing their government funding bill. Democrats have said they are using the shutdown to re-negotiate cuts to Medicaid that were part of Trump's budget.