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President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard ...

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President Trump's administration faces deadlines on Monday to tell two federal judges whether it will continue to fund SNAP, ...

The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, in the western state of Michoacan, was gunned down Saturday night in front of dozens ...

The man who threw a foot-long sandwich at a federal officer in Washington, D.C., will go on trial Monday on a misdemeanor charge after a grand jury refused to indict him on more serious counts.

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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Cindy Long, a former administrator of the USDA's SNAP program, what recent court rulings mean for the millions of Americans waiting for funds to buy groceries.