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From the Bench SCOTUS’s November session went off with a bang SNAP. The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits, allowing the administration to continue with its plan of using contingency funds to cover 65% of...

Breakthrough Uncle Sam appears poised to reopen his doors. Last night, the Senate passed a bill to provide stopgap government funding through January and fully fund a few key areas, including: veterans affairs, military construction, the legislative branch, and the Department of Agriculture...

“His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.” Isaiah 33:16 Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfil his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the storehouses of heaven fail? Do...

Tariffs in the Balance Lady Justice has President Trump’s tariffs in her balance scale in one of the weightiest political-economic cases in decades. POTUS’s global taxes came before SCOTUS in a two-and-a-half-hour hearing Wednesday, and the noble nine seemed skeptical of the tariffs’ legal...

UPS Plane Crash A fiery plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, has left at least 13 people dead, 15 injured, and nine still unaccounted for. The UPS cargo plane was departing Muhammad Ali International Airport Tuesday evening, loaded with 38,000 gallons of fuel for its Honolulu-bound flight...

35 Days and Counting The government shutdown will officially be the longest on record, and Americans are feeling it. The food assistance ~42M people rely on is still delayed, but now halfway funded. The Department of Agriculture will empty a $4.65B contingency fund to cover lapsed...

Dick Cheney Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at 84. The hard-charging Republican became one of the most powerful—and polarizing—vice presidents in U.S. history, remembered as a leading advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Over his long career in politics, Cheney served as White...

Food Fight The SNAP must go on. On Friday, federal judges in Rhode Island and Massachusetts ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to submit a plan by noon today showing how it will use contingency funds to keep Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits alive through...

WHAT YOU’RE ASKING Why isn’t the government reopening? You know how on movie night, when 22% of the room wants action, 37% wants a rom-com, and 41% are too spineless kind to make a decision? So you just keep scrolling… Congress has been scrolling Netflix for more than 720 hours without a...

Stacks and Cuts Wall Street’s serving up another round of record-breaking earnings. Nvidia just became the first company ever to hit a $5T market cap, fueled by ever-surging demand for its AI processing chips. The company hit $4T only three months ago and $3T last year. Other corporate...

Devastation in the Caribbean Hurricane Melissa’s winds and torrential rain are bringing utter devastation to Jamaica and parts of Haiti. World Concern’s local church partners in both countries are directly responding to urgent needs as communities face flooding, landslides, power loss, and...

Hurricane Melissa The strongest storm of 2025 made landfall in Jamaica yesterday. What happened? Over the weekend, Hurricane Melissa ballooned to a Category 4, with meteorologists warning of “catastrophic flooding” in Jamaica and parts of Cuba and Haiti. Jamaican officials issued...

Heisters Nabbed Police have reportedly arrested two men in connection with last week’s brazen midmorning Louvre heist targeting France’s crown jewels. Last Sunday, a hooded quartet took less than eight minutes to enter the world’s most-visited museum through a window, steal jewels worth an...

Ad-versity A contentious commercial that ran during the World Series has the U.S. and Canada in a trade pickle. An ad by the Ontario government featured clips from a 1987 radio address by then-President Ronald Reagan, saying that “over the long run,” tariffs “hurt every American worker and...

Escalation The U.S. is ramping up its war on drugs. Friday, War Secretary Hegseth ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group—comprised of the world’s largest aircraft carrier and three destroyers—to the Caribbean to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt” criminal...

We’re all friends here, so I’m trusting you with a confession: my gut response to the Louvre Museum heist was fascination (and dare I say amazement?) at the seeming success of the thieves. For a second, I was rooting for them. Who can pull something like that off? (Two of four suspects have...

Nothing But Bet The FBI is alleging that members of the NBA teamed up with the Mafia on illegal sports betting and rigged poker. The FBI announced 30+ arrests yesterday following two “mind-boggling” fraud probes, implicating multiple major crime families alongside Miami Heat guard Terry...

Slapped Uncle Sam’s putting Russia’s feet to the fire to end its war with Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies on Wednesday—the first economic sanctions of Trump 2.0—citing the Kremlin’s “lack of serious commitment” to ending the conflict...

The internet had a costly hiccup Monday. An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage around 3 a.m. knocked out a good chunk of the web, including Amazon, Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, and even Delta’s and United’s airline reservation systems. AWS powers roughly one-third of the internet, making it the...

War & Peace President Trump is shifting his peace-negotiating energy to Ukraine. Friday, POTUS held another Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as part of a renewed effort to end the Russia-Ukraine War. Zelenskyy’s been pushing Uncle Sam to supply Ukraine’s military with...