Cecelia stood behind me on the Pilates reformer and pressed her legs into my back, her hands into my shoulders. Charles then confronted me with the biggest question of my life: “Are you gay?”“I don’t know,” I told Charles as I began crying. I’ve learned how lucky I am that I get to live my life the best way I know how. I’ve learned there are so many we don’t know yet who will end up loving us. Katrina Anne Willis is an author, proud mother of four, special needs dog rescuer, pickleball fanatic, LGBTQ+ community member, and full-time RVer.

Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he is stunned by eight senators’ decision to break with Democrats and end the government shutdown and warned they are not alarmed enough about President Donald Trump’s political norm-shattering. Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference at Belvedere Middle School, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/gmHjTbG2iU — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 11, 2025So, What Now? Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Join HuffPost The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn’t. Advertisement“I’m really more alarmed than it appears the eight members of my party are in the United States Senate,” Newsom said.

AdvertisementOur regular SNAP allotment doesn’t cover everything, but it provides most of what ends up on our table. When it’s gone, I have to get extra creative by remixing leftovers, figuring out substitutions, visiting the food pantry and hoping what we have holds out until the end of the month. Or when the food pantry handed us a stack of tortillas, but nothing to fill them with. Right now, millions of families are facing hunger as SNAP benefits are delayed during the government shutdown. Because hunger doesn’t pause while politics play out.

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According to the report, parents will be drawing inspiration from current prestige TV, basketball stars, cottagecore vibes and more. Parenting: 11 Baby Name Trends To Look Out For This Year“These trends show us that parents today aren’t just sticking with the classics,” Rebekah Wahlberg, a baby name trends specialist at BabyCenter, told HuffPost. “Being in the know about what’s trending in baby names is so important, whether you’re looking to embrace the trends or avoid them. That cottagecore vibe is also making a mark on the world of baby names with rising picks like Juniper, Flora, Sienna, Eloise, Reed, Rowan and Heath. Family: The Top 10 Baby Name Trends For 2026Classic LitAs Wahlberg noted, many families are drawing inspiration from classic literature.

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Eagle-Eyed Trump Critics Have Spotted Some Very Weird Details In Photos Of Him ‘Working’“If Obama or Biden EVER did this, it would have launched 100,000 investigations,” one social media user wrote.

Jaqueline Benitez, who depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, California, on Feb. 13, 2023. AP Photo/Allison Dinner, FileThe text was from the Illinois Department of Human Services, saying SNAP benefits for November would not be distributed because of the government shutdown. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementOur regular SNAP allotment doesn’t cover everything, but it provides most of what ends up on our table. I rely on SNAP to feed my kids because my disability check runs out before the month does. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementRight now, millions of families are facing hunger as SNAP benefits are delayed during the government shutdown.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON ― The late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein suggested to confidants that President Donald Trump knew about his criminal activity, according to email messages made public Wednesday. Trump “knew about the girls,” Epstein wrote in one of the three emails released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. In a statement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the emails were “selectively leaked” by Democrats to smear Trump. “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre.”AdvertisementEpstein's 2011 email mentioning Donald Trump to Ghislaine Maxwell. AdvertisementIn another email, in 2015, Wolff told Epstein that Trump would be asked about their relationship during a presidential debate that year.

The president went ahead and posted a graphic of himself next to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, comparing 50-year mortgages with the Roosevelt administration’s 30-year mortgages. “I mean, you go from 40 to 50 years, and what it means is you pay something less. “The ‘savings’ from 50-year mortgages may be totally negated by rising home prices.”AdvertisementWhat a 50-year mortgage could look like, by the numbers. On a 50-year mortgage, it’s closer to $980,000,” Urquhart continued. For the first 20 years of a 50-year mortgage, almost nothing goes to principal.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full SNAP payments, amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end and food aid payments resume. Jackson signed the initial order temporarily freezing the payments. AdvertisementBeneficiaries in some states have received their full monthly allocations while in others they have received nothing. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to pause that order. An appeals court said Monday that full funding should resume, and that requirement was set to kick in Tuesday night before the top court extended the order blocking full SNAP payments.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump is defending his plan to bring hundreds of thousands of Chinese students into the country after facing backlash from prominent MAGA voices. The conversation kicked off after Ingraham told Trump that “a lot of MAGA folks are not thrilled” about his plans for the international students. Advertisement“We do have a lot of people coming in from China, and we always have,” Trump replied. “We’ve had a lot of problems with the French where we get taxed very unfairly on our technology,” Trump said. The decision, which sparked criticism from his MAGA supporters, also came amid his administration’s controversial sweeping mass deportations of immigrants.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGPolitics wasn’t meant to be the focus of the latest seasons of “South Park” but President Donald Trump’s seemingly boundless influence on America made it impossible to avoid. AdvertisementTackling all things Trump has been a boon for “South Park” ratings, with viewership doubling from its 2023 numbers, according to Nielsen. Though White House representatives called the show’s Trump pivot a “desperate attempt for attention,” the creators said “South Park” doesn’t need chaos in the capital to keep itself relevant. We’re becoming: ‘Tune in to see what we’re going to say about Trump,’” Stone said he remembered thinking. By the 2024 election, Parker told Vanity Fair he thought they’d squeezed all the comedic material they could from then-candidate Trump.

“Working through the weekend with President Donald J. Trump,” Mullin wrote. “It’s always an honor to be in the Oval Office — I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted. It’s always an honor to be in the Oval Office— I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) posted photos on Saturday of President Donald Trump "working through the weekend." Sen. Markwayne Mullin via XFirst off, the paperwork on Trump’s desk seems to just be large printouts of his social media posts.

For the past four years, the 24-year-old Silver Springs, Maryland, resident worked as a market research analyst for the Department of Commerce. “My uncle is a government employee, and I just saw how much pride that he took in his job. And I was like, ‘I want a job that’s like that,’” Kerksick said. But since the October government shutdown, Kerksick has been furloughed, which means she’s one of the estimated 750,000 federal workers across the United States who are on an indefinite unpaid leave of absence. “At first I thought this was just going to be a week,” Kerksick said, so she took a week of paid time off.