As a community organizer in New York City, Sharifa Khan spends a lot of time visiting food distribution hubs, community gardens, and local shelters. While speaking with community members, she often encounters the same issue: people want to get involved in volunteering, but they're not sure where to start. So, Khan decided to make a tool to address that-and it couldn't have come at a more important moment.
As the government shutdown stretches into its second month, breaking records as the longest shutdown in history, 42 million people across the country are feeling the effects of sudden SNAP cuts, including over 5 million in California.
"The web page also contained a "running list of German support organizations for your kit bags" that included charities like Foodsharing e.V. and Essen fur Alle (Food for All), as well as the app Too Good To Go. At the top of the list was Tafel Deutschland, which it described as "the umbrella organization distributes food to people in poverty through its more than 970 local food banks."
From gold-rimmed plates on gold-patterned tablecloths decorated with gold candlestick holders, they gorged on heirloom tomato panzanella salad, beef wellington and a dessert of roasted Anjou pears, cinnamon crumble and butterscotch ice-cream. On 15 October, Donald Trump welcomed nearly 130 deep-pocketed donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their pledged contributions to a vast new ballroom now expected to cost $300m.
President Donald Trump held a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday, just a few hours before funding for federal food assistance for millions of low-income Americans was set to lapse. Associated Press White House Correspondent Danny Kemp posted a photo from the party, showing guests decked out in Roaring '20s attire. The photo features Trump dressed in regular 2020s attire.
In northern Uganda, the unfolding consequences of US funding cuts to international humanitarian aid are palpable. Thousands of families have been living in refugee camps along the border with South Sudan for almost a decade, and newcomers are reported every day as the never-ending conflict within the country intensifies. Uganda has long been a crossroads of migration, shaped by historical and contemporary population movements. Today, it hosts over 1.9 million refugees and asylum seekers one of the largest refugee populations in the world.
Governor Kathy Hochul stated that major federal funding cuts from President Trump's new bill are set to inflict severe harm on New Yorkers, especially the vulnerable. She emphasized that this bill aims to subsidize tax breaks for the wealthy at the expense of crucial aid programs.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" contains $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and adds $350 billion for defense and border security, projected to increase the national deficit by trillions.
