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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 no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net — and it costs about $8 billion per month nationally.The…

Jeff CarlisleNov 2, 2025, 07:07 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.The USL has hired English Premier League chief football officer Tony Scholes to head up the organization’s new Division One league, which will likely begin play in 2028, sources confirmed to ESPN.Scholes will officially begin his new role in the summer of 2026 after finishing up his duties for the current EPL season. An official announcement is expected as early as Monday.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThe USL announced its intention to create a new top-tier league last March, which will sit atop the existing USL…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Max Arfsten had a goal and two assists and Dylan Chambost scored a first-half goal on Sunday night to help the Columbus Crew avoid elimination from MLS Cup playoffs and beat FC Cincinnati 4-0 in Game 2 of the best-of-three first-round series.The series returns to TQL Stadium, where Cincinnati won the opener 1-0, for Game 3 on Saturday. The winner advances to the one-game Eastern Conference semifinals against No.3 seed Miami or sixth-seeded Nashville.Jacen Russell-Rowe, who replaced Diego Rossi in the 61st minute, fed Andrés Herrera for a goal in the 65th and added a his first…

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 17, 2025.Brendan McDermid | ReutersStock futures were little changed on Monday morning, as a new month of trading begins.S&P 500 futures ticked higher by 0.17%, while Nasdaq-100 futures were up 0.26%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures advanced 49 points, or 0.1%.Wall Street is coming off a winning session that added to the benchmark’s October gains. The S&P 500 and Dow industrials climbed 2.3% and 2.5%, respectively, for the month. The Nasdaq Composite outperformed, gaining 4.7%.Those gains were driven in part by continued momentum in the artificial intelligence…

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said Marcus Rashford can score even more goals after the English forward netted his sixth goal for the club in Sunday’s 3-1 LaLiga win over Elche.Rashford scored Barça’s third goal, firing home to seal the win after Fermín López had picked him out.”When you see the chances he has, one or two goals more will be good, also for him,” Flick said in a news conference when asked where the on loan Manchester United man can still improve.”But we can be happy with him, of course. I am very happy with him.”He can play on this…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday’s newspapers…European footballBarcelona are already in talks with Manchester United over Marcus Rashford’s future – Sport Harry Kane is open to joining Barcelona and has set a timeline to decide his future – Sport Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Highlights of the La Liga match between Barcelona and Elche Trent Alexander-Arnold has revealed Jude Bellingham told him Real Madrid was “incredible” before he decided to leave Liverpool for the Bernabeu this summer – The SunLegendary manager Giovanni Galeone has died at the age of 84, plunging Italian football…

Is City’s reliance on Erling Haaland a problem? Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player FREE TO WATCH: Highlights of the Premier League match between Manchester City and Bournemouth. Of the 20 goals Man City have scored this season, 13 have come from the boots or head of Erling Haaland. Discounting Maxime Esteve’s own-goal brace in the win over Burnley in September, only five goals have been contributed by Haaland’s team-mates.One of those was Nico O’Reilly’s composed finish in Sunday’s win over Bournemouth; the first goal in eight not scored by their Norwegian talisman.Is it a problem?…

Pep Guardiola says Manchester City have the “energy” to challenge for the Premier League title with Erling Haaland at “Messi levels”. Man City are up to second, six points behind leaders Arsenal, after earning their fourth win in five league games by beating Bournemouth 3-1 on Sunday. Guardiola’s side finished 13 points behind champions Liverpool last season, but he has a different feeling about his team’s chances this time. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player FREE TO WATCH: Highlights of the Premier League match between Manchester City and Bournemouth. “Hopefully Arsenal will concede a goal one…

MANCHESTER, England — The Premier League title race is on, and it might end up with Erling Haaland overhauling Arsenal on his own to put Manchester City at the top of the pile at the end of the season.The 25-year-old is now so dominant and so important to his team that he is approaching the same peerless level once occupied by Lionel Messi at Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid. They both avoided injuries and form slumps to drive their teams to glory, so can Haaland also carry City to success on his own?Two more Haaland goals in a…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk as they leave after a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump says that Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him assurances that Beijing would take no action toward its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with mainland China while the Republican leader is in office.Trump said that the long-contentious issue of Taiwan did not come up in his talks with Xi on Thursday in South Korea that largely…