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What are the latest updates on SNAP food benefits?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Two judges today said it's unlawful for the Trump administration to suspend SNAP food benefits tomorrow. But NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports it's not clear when that assistance may reach the millions of people who rely on it.
A federal judge in Boston said the administration not only can but must use contingency funds to keep SNAP going. She said it could also shift other money, but left it up to the administration to decide whether to do so. The contingency funds fall short of SNAP's November budget, so the Trump administration may decide to issue only partial payments.
It has warned that would be logistically challenging and time-consuming. The administration has until Monday to decide on a plan. States and cities across the country are shifting their own money and stepping up food donations to help millions of low-income people get by despite this loss of food aid. Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.
Democratic Senator John Ossoff of Georgia is raising concerns about allegations of medical neglect and the lack of adequate food and water at immigration detention centers. Emily Wu Pearson of member station WABE in Atlanta has more.
Asif says his office has investigated more than 500 credible complaints alleging human rights abuses at immigration facilities across the country. A new report outlines delayed or denied medical care and inadequate, rotten or delayed meals and water, worsening the health conditions of detainees.
Earlier this year, Ossoff released the first part of the investigation with reports of pregnant immigrants in detention facing medical neglect. The Department of Homeland Security said that report contained false allegations. For NPR News, I'm Emily Wu Pearson in Atlanta.
A bipartisan panel voted unanimously to pass a new map in Ohio today. The state will now avoid a lengthier fight over the required redrawing of boundaries for its 15 members of Congress. Ohio Public Media's Sarah Donaldson has more.
Ohio's new map moves Cincinnati and Toledo's districts in Congress further right, but Akron inches left. and it makes some already Republican-friendly districts even friendlier. But Democratic Representative Dunny Isaacson of Cincinnati says it staved off a worst-case map for the minority party.
They tried to steal districts here like they were doing in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri, and today we prevented that from happening.
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