Author: Geoff Mulvihill
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The Supreme Court is expected to say whether full SNAP food payments can resume
It’s up to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress to decide when full payments will resume under the SNAP food aid program that helps 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries, as some wonder how they will feed their families without government assistance. The Supreme Court is expected to rule Tuesday on a request from President…
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Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen
President Donald Trump’s administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday in a push to keep full payments in the SNAP federal food aid program frozen while the government is shut down. The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans…
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Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen
President Donald Trump’s administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday in a push to keep full payments in the SNAP federal food aid program frozen. The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the U.S. government…
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2 judges order Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown
BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
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Food assistance is safe through October, but it may be at risk if the shutdown continues
A federal program that provides food assistance to 40 million low-income people could be at risk in November if the government shutdown isn’t resolved by then. And in at least some places, new applications for the program are not being approved. But there’s still a lot of uncertainty about the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known…
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Why Missouri currently doesn’t allow pregnant women to be legally divorced
Judges some places don’t grant divorces when one of the parties is pregnant — and one Missouri lawmaker is trying to change that, at least in her state
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State governments looking to protect health-related data as it’s used in abortion battle
State governments across the U.S. are adopting or considering laws that would block the sale of personal health data or information about who visits sensitive sites such as sexual health facilities
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14 GOP-led states have turned down federal money to feed low-income kids in the summer. Here’s why
Most Republican governors turned down federal money to provide grocery help for low-income families with school-age kids over the summer
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Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?
Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion
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FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan
WASHINGTON • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. It’s a move that some advocates have long sought as a way to improve access to…