SNAP Benefits Are Resuming as Government Reopens After Shutdown

Several states have restarted food stamp payments, but millions of Americans are still awaiting the November deposits that the Trump administration resisted paying out in full.

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Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes

The university system will ban advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without approval.

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Oklahoma Governor Commutes Inmate’s Death Sentence Just Before Execution

The death-row inmate, Tremane Wood, 46, had already had his last meal. It was only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has stepped in to stop an execution.

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Some TSA Workers to Get $10,000 Bonus Checks for Shutdown Work

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, began handing out $10,000 checks to T.S.A. workers who “went above and beyond” during the shutdown, after the president recommended similar bonuses for some air traffic controllers.

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Trump Officials Prepare Tariff Exemptions, Seeking to Lower Food Prices

If the proposal goes into effect, it would be the latest rollback of one of President Trump’s key economic policies over concerns about affordability.

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Justice Dept. Joins Lawsuit to Challenge California’s New Redistricting Maps

The agency intervened in a lawsuit brought by the California Republican Party seeking to throw out a map, approved last week by the state’s voters, that would redraw House districts to favor Democrats.

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U.S. Strike Kills 4 on Boat Trump Says Was Smuggling Drugs

The strike in the Caribbean brings the death toll in the Trump administration’s lethal campaign to 80 since early September.

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Of Books and Men

My colleague, the book critic Dwight Garner, tells us about “Flesh” by David Szalay, this year’s Booker Prize winner.

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BBC Apologizes to Trump Over Film Edit but Declines to Pay Compensation

The BBC said it would not rebroadcast a misleadingly edited documentary but added, “We strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”

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Carney Accelerates Economic Plan for Canada to Rely Less on U.S. Amid Trade War

Prime Minister Mark Carney fast-tracked mines and other natural resource projects to the dismay of some Indigenous groups and many environmentalists.

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