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In today’s newsletter: How a 19-year-old’s arrest and murder charge after a fatal car crash tested Alabama’s justice system <[link removed]>; the untold saga of what happened when DOGE stormed Social Security <[link removed]>; the millions of pounds of food that never arrived to food banks <[link removed]> after Trump cuts; and more from our newsroom.

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A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder after a fatal car accident in Alabama. His lawyers have come to believe that one factor changed the course of the case, starting in the first moments after the crash.

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When former Social Security Administration acting Commissioner Leland Dudek was first elevated into that position by President Donald Trump, he was hopeful. He had gone around his bosses and connected with leaders in the Department of Government Efficiency, who helped him land his new job, and he believed the Social Security agency was in need of a technological upgrade that DOGE could help implement.

Instead, DOGE ignored urgently needed reforms in favor of quick and often empty wins. Listen to ProPublica reporter Eli Hager <[link removed]>, who spoke with Dudek for 15 hours and interviewed dozens of Social Security insiders, as he explains the untold saga of what happened when DOGE stormed Social Security — and read the full investigation <[link removed]>.

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That’s about how many pounds of food never reached food banks across the country after the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million in deliveries from The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

Department of Agriculture records obtained by ProPublica show 4,304 canceled food deliveries between May and September across the 50 states, Puerto Rico and D.C. Food banks were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried food and 60 million eggs that never arrived, the records show.

The Department of Agriculture did not respond to ProPublica’s request for comment. In a letter to senators in May, the department said it had made additional food purchases through another program and that it “has not and will not lose focus on its core mission of strengthening food security, supporting agricultural markets, and ensuring access to nutritious foods.”

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