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SNAP food aid gets to people in some states while others remain in limbo amid court battles 11/08/2025 08:05pm • People in some U.S. states are able to buy groceries with federally funded SNAP benefits this weekend while those elsewhere are still waiting for November food benefits delayed by a protracted legal battle over the federal government shutdown. The Trump administration initially said last month that Russian strikes hit an apartment building and energy sites in Ukraine, killing 4 11/08/2025 07:04pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone slammed into an apartment building in eastern Ukraine early Saturday while many were sleeping, killing four people — three in Dnipro and one in Kharkiv — and wounding 12 others, Ukrainian authorities reported. The attack in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-larges Weekend session gets off to slow start in Senate as lawmakers look for a way out of shutdown 11/08/2025 05:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s first weekend session since the beginning of the shutdown yielded few signs of progress Saturday as Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s wish for a quick vote never materialized. The impasse that has lasted 39 days is taking an increasing toll on the country as fe 2 Arlington churches come together to feed the hungry 11/08/2025 04:21pm • With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history stretching to Day 39, and on the heels of the Supreme Court granting President Donald Trump's administration's emergency order blocking a court order to fully fund SNAP benefits, the need for food has grown. Government workers have not received a Democrats seize on Trump administration's efforts to fight food stamp payments 11/08/2025 04:18pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Trump administration's legal efforts to fight having to fully fund food stamps for millions of vulnerable Americans is creating an opening for Democrats eager to use the longest government shutdown in U.S. history to paint the president as callous and out of touch. Hospital police officer shot and killed in North Carolina emergency department struggle 11/08/2025 04:14pm • GARNER, N.C. (AP) — A police officer was shot and killed during a struggle in the emergency department lobby at a North Carolina hospital Saturday. The shooting happened around 9 a.m. at the WakeMed Garner Healthplex, killing WakeMed Campus Police Officer Roger Smith, according to a WakeMed statem Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets 11/08/2025 04:14pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sarah Lungwitz has fretted over feeding not just her two teenage daughters with SNAP payments disrupted, but her family's cat and two dogs. Help has arrived for now, she says, after an Illinois nonprofit arranged for volunteers to give her a grocery gift card last week to buy fo Brazilian environmentalist gets funded by DiCaprio after false forest fire accusation by Bolsonaro 11/08/2025 03:23pm • BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Being falsely accused of setting fire in the Amazon with funds from an Oscar-winning actor eventually became a blessing in disguise for Caetano Scannavino, the coordinator of a nonprofit organization in the heart of the rainforest. Brazil's then President Jair Bolsonaro false Powerful tornado in Brazil kills 6 people and injures hundreds more 11/08/2025 02:57pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A powerful tornado in Brazil’s southern state of Parana killed six people and injured hundreds Friday night, state officials said Saturday. Dozens of homes were destroyed. The tornado, which hit speeds of more than 250 kph (155 mph), prompted the government to declare an em Typhoon Kalmaegi rampages across Vietnam as the Philippines prepares for a new storm 11/08/2025 02:46pm • DAK LAK, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, killing at least five people, flattening homes, blowing off roofs and uprooting trees. In the Philippines, where the storm left at least 204 dead earlier in the week, survivors wept over the co Thousands flee to overcrowded camps after Sudan's paramilitary captures el-Fasher 11/08/2025 01:46pm • CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape reported atrocities by a paramilitary force since it captured el-Fasher in the western Darfur region, an aid group said Saturday, and the U.N. human rights chief warned that many others are still trapped. Those wh Man appears to have a seizure as ICE arrests his wife, but officials disagree 11/08/2025 01:35pm • FITCHBURG, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man seen on video having an apparent seizure during a struggle with immigration agents as he holds his wife and crying toddler says he lost consciousness after agents pushed and hit him and pressed on his neck. Department of Homeland Security officials accu A fire at a perfume depot in northwestern Turkey kills 6 people 11/08/2025 11:52am • ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire at a perfume depot in northwestern Turkey on Saturday morning killed six people and left one person injured, officials said. The cause of the blaze in Kocaeli province was not immediately known. The fire broke out around 9 a.m. local time, with local media reporting it was Today in History: November 8, Florida election recount begins 11/08/2025 04:10am • Today is Saturday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2025. There are 53 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 8, 2000, a statewide recount began in Florida, which emerged as critical in deciding the winner of the 2000 presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democratic Vice Pr Women make inroads in Pakistan as they become firefighters and barriers slowly fall 11/08/2025 12:49am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Thick black smoke clawed at the sky last week over the industrial zone in Pakistan's largest city as firefighter Syeda Masooma Zaidi raced toward the raging blaze in Karachi. The storage facility was packed with truck and car tires, and the flames leapt hungrily, black pl