Molly Weisner

I guess this is my way of soft-launching the news that I'm reporting again — and absolutely thrilled about it. For @AARP:

SNAP helped these older adults survive a car crash, layoffs, and chronic illness. Now, it's on the budget chopping block. “Everybody should have access to food ... But it seems that we are literally ripping the food right out of people’s mouths.” ​tinyurl.com/3zp29sb6

TSA will no longer require passengers to remove their shoes during airport security screening

#BREAKING U.S. House of Representatives PASSES GOP Tax & Spending Cuts Bill, 218-214.

Public schools in North Carolina are now cell-phone free zones. Teachers can start next school year knowing they won’t have to compete with social media for student attention, our kids get a mental break, and real learning can happen. This bipartisan bill represents a…

SCHUMER just raised a point of order against the title of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. So, officially, it is no longer called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Chairman @JohnBoozman released revised text of the committee’s budget reconciliation title. Learn more ⬇️ agriculture.senate.gov/newsroom/rep/p…

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

As Congress considers cuts to SNAP, we address 8 questions about this US federal nutrition program: journalistsresource.org/politics-and-g…

SNAP Double Dollars program at Bloomingfoods Co-op Market to end this Sunday, June 15, after funding depleted heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/loc…

The food pantry itself (in a town called Manchester) is doing heroic work to help those in need. The dedicated staff and volunteers—aided by donations from local churches, Kroger, and some grant funding—are doing what they can. Here’s what they told me: 2/

BREAKING: The Internet Massive outage being reported across platforms including Spotify, Google Cloud, AWS, Cloudflare, Claude, YouTube, Gmail, and many, many, more

On June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Waves of men battled their way inland at Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches. More than 2,000 Americans lost their lives in the D-Day landings…

Today I introduced the BARK Act to help America feed hungry shelter animals. We need everyone involved to get this bi-paw-tisan bill passed into law, including from our furry friends. We’re in dogged pursuit of passage this Congress. Send good pet pictures below ⬇️

BREAKING: The U.S. government says 247,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the most in eight months. apnews.com/article/unempl…

At least 12 officials from the Pentagon's public affairs shop — which responds to DOD press queries — have left the agency in recent weeks, with many taking deferred resignation offers politico.com/newsletters/na… @JackDetsch @dlippman @paulmcleary

The dog who was chained to a fence during a Florida hurricane has inspired a new law that protects pets during natural disasters. This is Trooper. Last October, he was rescued from knee-deep water during Hurricane Milton in Florida. He had been tied to a fence post and abandoned…

Dozens of people were injured during a protest outside Argentina's Congress where activists and retired Argentines demanded higher pensions, according to Reuters witnesses reut.rs/4mJI2k7

WATCH: @USRepGaryPalmer gives opening statement on the scourge of robocalls and robotexts: "According to recent estimates from April 2025, nearly 2,000 Robocalls were placed to US consumers every second."

But these numbers don't tell the full story. SSA's own data dashboard shows that call wait times *this moment* are about 2 hours long, and that 30K+ callers are waiting for a callback from the agency. SSA answers about 390,000 calls each day. federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernizati…