The Supreme Court temporarily blocked an order late Friday night that would have forced the government to backfill the country’s largest anti-hunger program — a move the administration claimed would ...

Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture would need to release partial funds by Wednesday, Nov. 5.

“People have gone without for too long,” McConnell told government lawyers at a hearing Thursday. “Not making payments to them for even another day is simply unacceptable.”