November 6, 2020

Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed the central islands of the Phillipines overnight and with sustained winds of nearly 200 mph the ferocious storm fulfilled fears that it would go down as the world’s most powerful tropical storm to make landfall in all recorded history. According to meteorologist Jeff Masters, citing wind speed estimates from the Joint…

Congressional talks will resume on Wednesday over a Farm Bill that has languished without resolution in both chambers since last year. And while Republicans have continued to attack the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP), which provides food assistance to the nation’s poorest families and individuals, the Democrats have played along by proposing less aggressive,…