PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- President Donald Trump's administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP for November after two judges issued rulings requiring the government to keep the nation's largest food aid program running.

Meanwhile, the government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation's neediest children out of preschool.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, had planned to freeze payments starting Nov. 1 because it said it could no longer keep funding it during the federal government shutdown. The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation's social safety net. It costs more than $8 b

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