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Day: November 6, 2025

What Happened Today – November 5, 2025

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World Central Kitchen volunteers served meals to unpaid federal workers in downtown Washington during the record 36-day shutdown, treating the nation's capital like a disaster zone. (World Central Kitchen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Our biggest challenge is to bear witness to the suffering around us. World Central Kitchen is feeding unpaid government workers in DC as they might people in a war zone or disaster area. The government’s partial funding for SNAP this month means that five million Americans who are food insecure will receive nothing. Judges are … Read more