In both cases, my family donated more than usual, given that President Donald Trump had ordered federal food aid for the poor, elderly and disabled stopped due to the government shutdown. Without these subsidies, ACA monthly insurance premium payments would “more than double,” according to KFF, a health policy organization. To disabled Americans, particularly those who live with incurable, chronic illnesses, it was more than that. But we can donate food and cash to those whose federal food aid was cruelly cut or whose government paychecks are withheld during a government shutdown. Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Join HuffPost The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn’t.

Pete Hegseth posted video footage of the most recent strikes on X. Pete Hegseth/XThe UK has stopped sharing some intelligence with the US amid fears military strikes ordered by Donald Trump on boats allegedly carrying drugs are illegal, it has been reported. America has carried out more than a dozen strikes since September on vessels near the Venezuelan coast and the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing more than 70 people. AdvertisementTwo more boats were blown up on Sunday, killing six people, according to US defence secretary Pete Hegseth. Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights chief, has said that the strikes violate international law and amount to “extrajudicial killing”. AdvertisementHe said: “Decisions on this are a matter for the US and I’m not going to get into intelligence and security matters.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGAmong the onslaught of judicial rulings issued by courts in response to the Trump administration’s attempts to expand the president’s powers, a singular theme is emerging: Judges are pissed off. Whether on the page or from the bench, judges nationwide — including those President Donald Trump appointed — are expressing increased exasperation with the administration’s obfuscations and seeming reliance on plausible deniability as a primary or sole legal strategy. At the circuit court level, challengers to the Trump administration have a 59% win rate, with Republican-appointed circuit judges giving their votes to Trump 85% of the time and Democratic-appointed circuit judges voting against Trump 85% of the time. At the district court level, Trump’s challengers have won 60% of the cases brought, with Republican-appointed district judges ruling against Trump 55% of the time and Democratic-appointed judges ruling against the administration 63% of the time. MATHIEU LEWIS-ROLLAND via Getty ImagesA lack of credibility by the Trump administration and its lawyers was recognized by U.S. District Judge April Perry in Chicago, too.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in power since 2013, says Trump is seeking to oust him and that Venezuelan citizens and the military will resist any such attempt. The U.S. military dwarfs Venezuela’s, which is debilitated by a lack of training, low wages and deteriorating equipment, six sources familiar with Venezuela’s military capabilities said. That reality has led Maduro’s government to bet on two potential strategies - including a guerrilla-style response referenced publicly, though without details, by high-ranking officials, and another which officials have not acknowledged. Venezuelan troops, however, have to deal with poor working conditions and there could be desertions in the event of an attack, the sources said. Venezuelan opposition groups, NGOs, Washington and some Latin American governments have accused Maduro’s administration and the Venezuelan military of ties to drug trafficking, especially in the country’s west, where Colombian guerrilla groups like the National Liberation Army operate and coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, is widely cultivated.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — In the end, some Democrats just didn’t have the stomach for a drawn-out fight with Donald Trump. They underestimated his apathy and ruthlessness in denying health care and food aid to millions of Americans, including his own voters. This included a last-minute intervention by Democrats on the Senate floor on the eve of the shutdown, without which the fight would have been over before it even began. Advertisement“They were skeptical of the strategy and that it was worth the fight,” one Senate Democratic aide told HuffPost. But they were wrong that Trump and Senate Republicans were the ones more likely to cave in the end.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump took his usual lies and political attacks to Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, making his Veterans Day remarks sound more like a rally speech. AdvertisementPresident Donald Trump salutes at the conclusion of a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 11, 2025. I watched U.K., I watched Russia; they were selling ― celebrating — Victory Day, World War II, and I said, ‘We got to have a Victory Day.’ Nobody even talked about it in our country. And remember, we won World War I, we won World War II. Congress named it the Department of Defense after World War II, and only Congress can rename it.

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President Donald Trump on Monday made a bonkers claim that “nobody knows” about magnets while bragging about his dealmaking abilities. Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are." https://t.co/gTCoCl2KBI — Bill Prady ⚛️ Now at 🦋 (@billprady) November 10, 2025Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementFinally a reason to use this GIF which I definitely didn’t just discover existed. https://t.co/UybdlD4V6m — Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) November 10, 2025Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"Nobody knows what magnets are" is the new "'groceries' is an old-fashioned word." — Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 (@4HumanUnity) November 10, 2025Magnets are to windmills, like sharks are to batteries — Robert Lusetich (@RobertLusetich) November 10, 2025Related...Read the original on HuffPost

“More than anything else, it’s a con job by the Democrats,” said Trump. AdvertisementIngraham asked Trump if affordability is a “voter perception issue,” rather than a real concern requiring new policy or stronger messaging from Republicans. The president, as expected, agreed with the former and doubled down on his attacks against the press. Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Join HuffPost The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn’t. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge on Monday rejected a new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers, adopting an alternate proposal creating a Democrat-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Republicans hold all four of Utah’s U.S. House seats and had advanced a map poised to protect them. Gibson ultimately selected a map drawn by plaintiffs, the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government. The Utah ruling gives an unexpected boost to Democrats, who have fewer opportunities to gain seats through redistricting. Republicans have argued Gibson does not have legal authority to enact a map that wasn’t approved by the Legislature.

Join HuffPost The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn’t. A deal’s been struck, but serious questions remain. We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves. Thank you again for your support along the way. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGIn a late-night Truth Social post, President Donald Trump appeared jittery about a Supreme Court ruling on his trade war — warning that lifting the tariffs he imposed could cost the country more than $3 trillion. A day earlier, Trump said the losses from reversing tariffs — or an “unwind” — would be $2 trillion. Trump is likely to be unperturbed on his tariff agenda even if the court pushes back. When Trump returned to office in January, the average U.S. tariff stood at 2.5%. Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Join HuffPost The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn’t.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — A provision of the government funding bill that passed the Senate on Monday could give Republican senators a big payday over the government allegedly spying on them. Failure to notify would give senators a chance to sue. The investigation, nicknamed “Arctic Frost,” looked at the timing of phone calls by the lawmakers from Jan. 4 to Jan. 7, 2021. Spokespeople for Grassley and other senators involved in writing the legislation didn’t respond to requests for comment. Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Join HuffPost The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn’t.

President Donald Trump is reminding a lot of people of one rather famous villain after his demands towards the BBC. AdvertisementTrump’s legal team wants the BBC to apologize, issue a retraction and “appropriately compensate” the president — to the tune of a billion big ones, no less. The front page of the Daily Star on Tuesday said it all by comparing Trump to none other than Dr. pic.twitter.com/0pzhlKnfuv — Roger Melly (@BindenJohn1) November 10, 2025I'm going to sue the BBC for......one billion trillions dollars. pic.twitter.com/Gu3T2vcNMY — Pete Clark (@DoctorPete) November 11, 2025AdvertisementAnd threatening to sue the BBC for... ...one Billion dollars!