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LIVE from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. The government shutdown is making what's already been a bad situation much worse for Midwestern farmers. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports.
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Most corn, wheat and soybean farmers are losing money. Shortages and tariffs have jacked up the price of fertilizer and farm equipment they have to buy, while trade wars are depressing the price of the grain they have to sell normally in hard times, Missouri farmer Richard Oswald would look to the US Department of Agriculture for a short term loan.
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I've literally done this for 55 years. It's been something that has always been been there?
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Not this year. The USDA is mostly shut down. President Trump has promised farmers a bailout, but that's delayed and it's unclear how any assistance program would work. Absent a functioning usda, economists expect farm foreclosures to rise. For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City.
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Most Americans do not approve of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics. That's according to a recent survey by the New York Times and Siena University. NPR's Meg Anderson has more.
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Immigrant advocate groups in Chicago say some federal immigration officers are kicking indoors, dragging people out of cars, tear gassing and threatening them. Ed Yonca is the director of public policy at the ACLU of Illinois.
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What we're seeing is a general escalation of violence and the use of excessive force by ICE officers.
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An ICE spokesperson told NPR their officers are, quote, highly trained and act accordingly with law and policy. The agency's most recent use of force policy notes that officers should only use force when, quote, no reasonably effective, safe and feasible alternative appears to exist. Meg Anderson, NPR News.
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Oscar winning actress Diane Keaton has died. She was 79 years old. She starred in Annie hall, the First Wives Club and dozens of other Hollywood hits. NPR's Bob Mondello offers this remembrance.
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Her career spanned six decades, but if she'd quit Hollywood after the first, she'd still have been a leading lady for the ages. In just the 1970s, Diane Keaton starred in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, two Godfather movies and six Woody Allen comedies including Play It Again, Sam Love and Death Sleeper and Annie hall, in which she played the unforgettably scattered title character.
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The film won Keaton a best actress Oscar and she received three other nominations for her intense writer hanging out with socialists in Warren Beatty's Reds, her selfless daughter in Marvin's Room, and and her successful playwright wooed by both Keanu Reeves and Jack Nicholson in Something's Gotta Give. Keaton also directed, appeared both on Broadway and in more than 60 other films, and wrote several best selling memoirs. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
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And you're listening to NPR News. Today is World Migratory Bird Day. It's a day to remind people to make their outdoor spaces bird friendly by using native plants, not raking leaves and in particular, turning off the lights at night. A new study in the journal Science examined birds during an eclipse. Show just how light sensitive birds can be. NPR's Amy Held reports.
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A dawn chorus of bird song makes clear birds respond to light. Now, scientists who used the total solar eclipse of April 2024 as a backdrop say light may be the most important cue for birds observing them. When it was lights out midday, some species seemed unaffected. But study co author Kimberly Roosevelt at Indiana University told the Science podcast most were affected.
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They treated it like even when night lasted for four minutes and came at the completely wrong time of day when the sun came back on. At the end of that, the birds who normally sing a dawn chorus, that's what they did.
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It sheds light on just how attuned birds are to even short changes in light affecting migration, feeding and breeding as humans flood the night with light pollution. Amy Held, NPR News.
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In college football, the Ohio state defense forced three turnovers that resulted in 21 points as the number one Buckeyes beat number 17 Illinois today 34 16. CJ Donaldson ran for two scores in the win. Ryan Niblett returned a punt 75 yards for a touchdown as Texas beat six ranked Oklahoma. Number seven Indiana knocked off number three Oregon, 30 to 20. Number eight Alabama, meanwhile, slipped past number 14, Missouri, 27 to 24. And Dartmouth beat Yale 17 to 16 with the last second 51 yard field goal. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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