Party leaders in Washington are waging an urgent campaign Monday to convince Democrats and Republicans to get behind compromise legislation that would avert a first-ever national default, with each side proclaiming victory following marathon talks.
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Nearly four months after OpenAI stunned the tech industry with ChatGPT, the company is releasing its next-generation version of the technology that powers the viral chatbot tool.
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The Trump administration unveiled a final rule Wednesday that will require more food stamp recipients to work in order to receive benefits. The new requirement limits states’ ability to waive existing work mandates and could result in 688,000 people losing assistance, according to the US Department of Agriculture. The move is one of three Trump administration efforts […]
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the state filed a lawsuit to stop changes to the public charge policy that could deny legal immigrants from becoming legal permanent residents if they received public assistance. Becerra had harsh words for the trump administration, “I can boil down to four words what it took President Trump and […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6072632172001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Roughly a quarter-million Californians might not qualify for food stamps under a new proposal by the Trump administration, opponents of the proposal said the move will affect families who already struggle financially. People who make 130 percent and below the federal poverty level qualify […]
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The Trump administration wants to tighten the rules governing who qualifies for food stamps, which could end up stripping more than 3 million people of their benefits. The Agriculture Department issued a proposed rule Tuesday that curtails so-called broad-based categorical eligibility, which makes it easier for Americans with somewhat higher incomes and more savings to participate in […]
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The 38 million Americans on food stamps will be getting their February benefits a bit early because of the ongoing government shutdown, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced in a briefing with reporters on Tuesday. Due to concerns that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, could run out of money in […]
