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Republican leaders have no choice but to allow a vote after a petition on the Epstein bill reached the needed 218 signatures.

The Cost Containment Subcommittee of the Delaware County Budget Task Force presented a number of recommendations to the County Council.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the program, said that funds could be available “upon the government reopening, within 24 hours for most states.”

The president proposed the idea on his Truth Social media platform Sunday, five days after his Republican Party lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere.

In the newly released emails, Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein's house with a victim of sex trafficking.

U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Philadelphia, said he doesn’t understand why his Democratic Senate colleagues would break ranks on the continuing resolution.

Eight Democratic senators are facing criticism from their own party for their deal with Republicans to end the federal government shutdown.

The U.S. Senate voted to pass a deal on Sunday night that signals the longest ever federal government shutdown is poised to end this week. Was the shutdown worth it?

The food assistance payments had previously been frozen by the Trump administration amid the federal government shutdown.

Delaware will start giving SNAP recipients partial benefits, but a federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to restore full payments.

The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, helps about 6 million U.S. households pay energy bills, buy fuel, or fix broken heaters.

The airport said the closures will help keep the remaining checkpoints running smoothly despite shutdown-related staffing shortages.

The hearing came two days before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Democrats have repeatedly voted against reopening the government as they demand that Republicans negotiate with them to extend expiring health care subsidies.

Jeff Balk spent several years in a Missouri prison for abusing teen boys. He first resisted calls to resign as county chair but ultimately stepped down.