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Food Security Fallout: Trump Administration Won’t Use Emergency Funds for Food Stamps During Shutdown (New York Times)
About 42 million low-income Americans are set to lose access to monthly nutrition assistance in November, after the Trump administration said on Friday that it would not reconfigure the budget to provide benefits during the government shutdown. The move raised the risk of some of the nation’s poorest families’ being unable to buy food in a matter of days.
Dozens of states have warned
that they cannot provide benefits next month, and at least two have already paused delivering them, prompting a surge of demand at food banks and eliciting anxiety among recipients.
What Patti Harris is Reading: Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs (New York Times)
After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida, elkhorn and staghorn, are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found.
The findings are a bracing example
of the toll that climate change is wreaking on the world’s coral reefs, which support an estimated quarter of marine species, including fish that provide crucial protein and income in coastal communities.
Speech vs Science: ExxonMobil Sues California, Claims New Green Laws Violate Speech (Bloomberg)
ExxonMobil Corp. has sued California, arguing that two new state laws violate the First Amendment by trying to force it to agree to a certain climate viewpoint, and conflict with federal regulations.
The lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges that the two new laws, which seek to make large corporations more transparent about their climate emissions and financial exposure to climate risk, force ExxonMobil to publicly endorse opinions about climate change that it does not agree with and requires them to "take responsibility for global warming," amounting to government-compelled speech.
Argentina Gov't Latest: Milei’s Party Wins Midterm Vote in Major Comeback (Bloomberg)
President Javier Milei’s party won Argentina’s midterm vote Sunday, a result that will give the libertarian leader a stronger foothold in Congress as he seeks to pass major reforms to boost the nation’s beleaguered economy.
Market Momentum: Argentina Bonds Surge After Milei's Landslide Win (Bloomberg)
Narco Zone Widens: Graham Predicts Trump's War on "Narco-Terrorists" Will Expand to Land Strikes (Axios)
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) thinks the administration's strikes in the waters off Venezuela will expand to land, adding that President Trump will brief lawmakers on "potential future military operations against Venezuela and Colombia," calling land strikes a "real possibility."
Fury is growing on Capitol Hill over the strikes on purported "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, which have killed at least 43 people. Lawmakers, including some Republicans, are demanding more transparency. Who the US has killed, and on what evidence, remains unclear.
Arms Escalation: Putin Says Russia Now Has Nuclear-Powered Missile (New York Times)
Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable Burevestnik missile and is preparing to deploy it, President Vladimir Putin said Sunday, a pointed message to the West after plans for a summit with President Trump collapsed.
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Economy Watch: US Inflation Picked Up to 3% in September (Wall Street Journal)
Annual inflation heated up slightly in September, but not as much as economists expected, giving the Federal Reserve a clear path for widely expected rate cuts heading into their meeting this week.
Data Blackout: October Price Data Unlikely to Be Released, White House Says (Bloomberg)
The US government will likely be unable to release inflation data for October, the White House said Friday, citing the ongoing government shutdown. The funding lapse is preventing surveyors from deploying to the field, “depriving us of critical data,” the White House posted on X. It would be “the first time in history” the information is not published, the White House said.
Justice in France: Suspects Arrested Over The Theft of Crown Jewels from Paris’ Louvre Museum (Associated Press)
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum, justice and police officials said Sunday, a week after the heist that stunned the world and sparked a massive manhunt.
It was not immediately clear
whether the police had recovered any of the stolen jewelry, which is worth more than $100 million and includes gem-studded royal tiaras, necklaces and earrings dating to the 19th century, according to the New
York Times.
Zohranmania: Bernie Sanders, AOC, Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul Host Campaign Rally in Queens (Politico)
Six decades after the Beatles played Forest Hills Stadium, Zohranmania came to Queens. As New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke, the crowd broke out into spontaneous chants of “tax the rich!” several times.
When Mamdani got the same chant, he laughed too. “Hell yeah,” he said. “Obviously.”
This Week in NYC: 33 Fun Halloween Events, Parades and Haunted Houses for 2025 (New York Times)
From haunted houses and horror films to family parades and pumpkin festivals, New York and its surrounding areas are packed with Halloween events through the end of October.
Highlights include the Village Parade on Halloween night, live musical scores to classic fright films, and kid-friendly outings like the Bronx Zoo’s Harvest Glow and the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson.
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