Trump live updates: Judge orders administration to fully fund food stamps in November

The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge’s ruling to fully fund SNAP benefits in November.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz told Americans what to do if they see someone starting to faint after he helped a businessman who collapsed during an Oval Office press conference earlier Thursday.

The White House has continued to blame Democrats for distress caused by the government shutdown as United Airlines and other major carriers cancel hundreds of flights.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, has demanded that the Trump administration “deliver the payments now” after a federal judge ordered it to fully fund SNAP benefits.

Airports in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago are among the 40 major travel hubs to be affected by flight cuts due to the ongoing government shutdown.

The flight reductions will start as soon as Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration maintained the decision was paramount for safe air travel amid pressure on air traffic controllers, who “are under immense stress and fatigue.”

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits through November.

The ruling, issued by a Rhode Island judge on Nov. 6, comes after plaintiffs argued the president is withholding SNAP benefits — relied on by 41 million Americans — as political leverage amidst the government shutdown.

Trump administration officials previously pledged to partially fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

The federal judge said SNAP benefits must be fully funded by Nov. 7.

After deliberating for nearly seven hours, a jury in D.C. found Sean Charles Dunn, a former Justice Department employee now known as the “Sandwich Guy,” not guilty of misdemeanor assault on Thursday.

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to enforce a rule preventing transgender or nonbinary people from choosing their own sex marker on their passports.

In a brief order, the conservative majority of the court said displaying a person’s sex at birth “no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth.”

“The government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the court said.

The liberal justice of the court forcefully dissented, saying the majority had “inflicted” injury on transgender or nonbinary people for a policy that would not harm anyone

“Such senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome has become an unfortunate pattern,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for the liberal justices.

“This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification. Because I cannot acquiesce to this pointless but painful perversion of our equitable discretion, I respectfully dissent.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reaffirmed that his view remains unchanged on the unproven connection between Tylenol and autism.

“I’m not going to change until the science changes,” he told reporters during a White House press conference on weight-loss medication. “And the science does not look like it’s changing. It’s getting stronger and stronger every day.”

President Trump indicated that ICE raids in New York City would continue following the election of Zohran Mamdani, who has pledged to take a hard line against the president’s immigration enforcement tactics.

“We have to get criminals out,” Trump told reporters. “Whether they’re in New York or anywhere else, we want to get them out.”