Today’s facts 11-10-2025

Today’s facts …

The Senate is closer to ending the shutdown.

Speaker Mike Johnson said House lawmakers should start returning to Washington “right now.”

Thousands of flights are still cancelled.

Trump does not need a court order to pay out SNAP benefits. Benefits can be paid as previous administrations have during a shutdown.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp released a new ad that blames Republicans and Democrats for Trump’s shutdown.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has also blamed the GOP for the shutdown.

Trump spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, where he hosted another extravagant dinner party complete featuring synchronized swimmers who did a routine to “God Bless the USA.”

Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is applying for a commutation of her federal prison sentence.

Trump wants to send $2000 to every American. There is not a plan as of now.

A former US district judge has resigned to freely “combat today’s existential threat to democracy,” condemning Trump’s use of the DOJ against rivals and threats to judges.

The Supreme Court declined to revisit the legal same-sex marriage ruling.

Nevada became the first US state to constitutionally protect same-sex marriage.

Trump has issued pardons for Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, and John Eastman for their roles in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The pardon does not apply to Trump himself.

Trump wants the new Commanders’ stadium named for him.

President Trump was loudly booed by much of the crowd at yesterday’s Commanders game when he appeared on the jumbotron and during a halftime military enlistment ceremony.

Denmark bans social media for kids under 15.

Tomorrow is Veterans Day.

 

Kim Kardashian failed the California bar exam.

“Fedora man” photographed after the Louvre heist turns out to be a 15-year-old fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents near Paris.

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