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President Donald Trump’s administration says it will partially fund the SNAP food aid program after a pair of judges’ rulings required the payments to continue. That means grocery aid will resume for 1 in 8 Americans, though it has been delayed for millions already and the amount beneficiaries receive will be reduced. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would not continue the funding in November due to the government shutdown. Two federal judges ruled last week that the government was required to keep the program running. But both gave the administration leeway to pay for it entirely or partially. It can normally take up two two weeks to load beneficiaries’ debit cards.

President Donald Trump’s administration faces deadlines on Monday to tell two federal judges whether it will comply with court orders that it continue to fund the nation’s biggest food aid program using contingency funds during the government shutdown. Judges in Rhode Island and Massachusetts ruled separately on Friday that the administration must continue to pay for SNAP. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Nov. 1 because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. SNAP serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net.

Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown. Friday's decisions came just before the Department of Agriculture planned to halt payments to the program. SNAP serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a key part of the social safety net. The announcement of the potential freeze had caused concern among states, food banks, and recipients. Some states even considered using their own funds to maintain the program. It's unclear how quickly benefits can be reloaded onto debit cards, a process that usually takes one to two weeks.

Frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was attacked over his thin resume. Republican Curtis Sliwa strove to prove his seriousness as a candidate. And former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was pressed on the sexual harassment allegations that drove him from office in a contentious final debate in New York City’s mayoral race. They candidates met just days before early voting begins in the country's largest city. While Mamdani began the debate accusing his rivals of being too consumed by fighting, he quickly joined the fray, including inviting one of Cuomo’s accusers to appear in the studio audience. Cuomo is now running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies…

The blast that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around in rural Tennessee left no survivors, authorities said Saturday. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said during a news conference that officials were working on the assumption that all of the people at the site were dead. The total number of people who died was unclear, as was the cause of the blast. Davis had said earlier there were 18 people missing. The explosion occurred Friday morning at Accurate Energetic Systems, which supplies and researches explosives for the military.

A storm without a name was expected to bring flooding to the East Coast from South Carolina to New Jersey and high winds to New York City over the holiday weekend. While the storm affecting the eastern U.S. wasn't…