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Hide caption Former Vice President Dick Cheney died DATE at the age of XX. He is seen here on Nov. 5, 2000, applauding as retired Gen. Colin Powell speaks at a rally in Del Mar, Calif. Previous Next M. Spencer Green/AP Hide caption Richard B. “Dick” Cheney (right), his brother (second from left) and friends were on a baseball team together in Lincoln, Neb., in 1953. His family moved to Wyoming during the boys’ childhood. Previous Next AP Hide caption Cheney (center) was on the Natrona County High School football team in Casper, Wyo., in 1957. Previous Next Courtesy of…

Politics / November 3, 2025 My message to my fellow Jews in this city is: Don’t believe the lies you’re hearing. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani and supporters walk the Brooklyn Bridge on November 3, 2025.(Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Two weeks ago, while I was canvassing for Zohran Mamdani in Brooklyn, a Jewish woman opened the door, saw my campaign flyers, pointed at the Mezuzah attached to her doorframe, and closed the door. If she had only given me a minute, I would have told her that I, too, am Jewish, and that I was born and raised…

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., about how the start of health insurance open enrollment and other issues might change his party’s shutdown strategy going forward. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As we’ve been reporting on this increasingly lengthy government shutdown, we’ve been talking with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress about the politics around the shutdown and also about the substantive issues that Selena just told us about. This morning, Senator Chris Van Hollen is with us. He is a Democrat. He is the senior senator from Maryland, and he sits on the Senate appropriations and budget…

California’s community colleges serve over 2.1 million students and constitute by far the largest higher education system in simple student numbers of any in the country, far outstripping the California State, SUNY and other state systems. I taught at nine of these community college campuses across the course of thirteen years, an experience as common and kaleidoscopic as America itself.  Given who this system serves, a vast and diverse working-class, it has become both microcosm and mirror of many of this nation’s practical aspirations and pressing concerns.Crucially, the community colleges educate students at a fraction of the cost of universities…

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, the office humor comic strip, is pictured at work in 2006. Adams has metastatic prostate cancer and he appealed to President Trump to help save his life by solving a bureaucratic problem with his health insurance. It worked: His appointment is Tuesday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Like many, many Americans, Scott Adams had health insurance problems. But Adams — made famous first by his long-running Dilbert cartoon, and later for a racist rant on YouTube — counts some powerful people in his social media circle: President Trump, his son…

Politics / November 3, 2025 A faked viral video of a white CEO shoplifting is one thing. What happens when an AI-generated video incriminates a Black suspect? That’s coming, and we’re completely unprepared. Ad Policy An AI-generated video on the platform Sora purports to depict Open AI CEO Sam Altman shoplifting from Target.(Via x.com) Last month, social media was flooded by a CCTV clip of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stealing from Target and getting stopped by a store security guard. Except he wasn’t, really—that was just the first clip to go viral from Sora, Open AI’s new social…

Tylenol, which contains acetaminophen, has been at the center of a disputed claim that it is linked to autism. Scott Olson/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images North America Consumer giant Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues, is buying the company that makes Tylenol and Band-Aids in one of the biggest mergers of the year. The deal, worth almost $49 billion, comes at a particularly difficult time for Tylenol-maker Kenvue, after the Trump administration linked acetaminophen — the active ingredient in this common painkiller — to autism. The assertions came despite a lack of…

Politics / November 3, 2025 The extremist podcaster’s rise and rise is a sign that racists and antisemites are tired of being the junior partners in the Republican coalition. Ad Policy Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson sit down for a friendly chat.(YouTube) If you are in the mood for post-Halloween goosebumps, you could watch Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, the latest cinematic adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 gothic novel. Alternatively, you could read up on the latest infighting over bigotry in the Republican Party. The effect of the two experiences is remarkably similar. Shelley had originally written the book as…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories President Trump has shown little interest in negotiating with Democrats to end the government shutdown. He spent the weekend in Florida, one of five trips he’s taken since the shutdown began. On Air Force One last night, he told reporters it is up to the Democrats to end it. Check the latest news on the shutdown from our coverage here. President Trump salutes a Marine as he…

Dairy products, which are covered by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is displayed for sale at a grocery store Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV/AP hide caption toggle caption George Walker IV/AP 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 SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Nov. 1 because it said it could…