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I'm Korva Coleman. A blizzard continues to pound the Eastern seaboard from Maryland to Maine. The Bruce Konviser reports from New Jersey. The storm has paralyzed air and ground
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travel in the Northeast from Washington to Boston. Thousands of flights have been canceled. Public transportation on the ground has also come to a halt. New Jersey Transit has suspended all rail, light rail and bus service, and Long Island Railroad has also suspended its rail service. Blizzard warnings have been posted from Delaware to New Hampshire. Much of the region is expected to get one to two feet of snow.
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Bruce Konviser reporting. Meanwhile, an atmospheric river is storming into the Pacific Northwest in Northern California. Forecasters say it's bringing heavy rain and now a chance of flash flooding. The Transportation Security Administration says its pre check program at airports will continue. That's despite an announcement yesterday from the Department of Homeland Security halting some of its other travel programs. NPR's Luke Garrett explains.
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DHS suspended its global entry program for air travelers and airport security escorts for Congress members early Sunday morning. The department initially announced that TSA would help precheck security lines, but DHS quickly walked this back, causing confusion at airports and online. In a statement, TSA said its precheck program will remain open and they will evaluate service on a, quote, case by case basis. Beyond travel, DHS is also suspending all non disaster related FEMA funding. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blamed congressional Democrats for the program cuts, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer responded, saying the Trump administration is choosing to inflict pain on the public instead of adopting common sense ideas reforms. The partial government shutdown has now entered its second week with no sign of a DHS funding deal. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
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Stocks opened lower this morning amid fresh uncertainty over tariff policy. NPR Scott Horsley reports. The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 400 points in early trading.
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U.S. customs officials say they will stop collecting emergency tariffs just after midnight tonight following Friday's Supreme Court ruling that those tariffs are illegal. Importers who paid those tariffs over the last will be looking for refunds, although the process for that has yet to be established. President Trump moved quickly to replace the outlawed tariffs with a new set of import taxes set at 15% by law. Those tariffs can remain in place for only five months unless Congress votes to extend them. A 15% tariff would represent a discount for goods from some countries, but an increase for other products. That leaves US Businesses and trading partners in some doubt about what future levies will look like. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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A federal judge has permanently blocked the release of a report into President President Trump's handling of classified documents. The judge says releasing the report would be unjust to Trump and his two co defendants. The case had been dismissed. It was investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith. You're listening to npr. The biggest bank in the country says it deliberately closed several of President Trump's accounts one month after the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. That's according to court documents filed Friday. Trump had sued JP Morgan. The affected accounts included Trump businesses and his personal banking relationship. JP Morgan did not cite a reason for closing the accounts. Some wellness enthusiasts are turning to synthetic peptides to optimize their health. They believe the molecules can help them fight illness, make them stronger or heal faster. But many popular peptides are experimental. As Sarah Boonen reports, that comes with risk.
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Some peptides are FDA approved, like insulin and GLP1 weight loss drugs. Others are at best unproven because they haven't been studied in humans for their efficacy and safety. That concerns Paul Knoffler, a Salem molecular biologist at UC Davis School of Medicine.
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Most of the research has just been done on like in rodents or, you know, in a plastic dish in a lab.
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If you still want to try peptides, Knoffler says, you should talk to your doctor first. And don't just buy them off the Internet. They could be fake or contain ingredients that are toxic to your body. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Bowden.
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FBI Director Kash Patel was shown on social media yesterday in the locker room of the U.S. men's Olympic Hockey team. They just won the gold medal. Patel is shown celebrating and drinking beer. He'd said he was in Italy to meet with law enforcement to help provide Olympic security. The visit came as a Florida deputy and the Secret Service shot and killed an intruder at Trump's Florida estate. Trump was not there. This is npr.
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