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This message comes from NPR sponsor Rosetta Stone, an expert in language learning for 30 years. Right now, NPR listeners can get Rosetta Stone's lifetime membership to 25 different languages for 50% off. Learn more at Rosetta Stone.com NPR LIVE from NPR News in Washington, I'm RYLAND BARTON. After 36 days, it's the longest government shutdown ever. President Trump says Democrats must agree to reopen the government before he'll negotiate with them to extend health insurance subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Trump blamed the shutdown for the GOP's election losses yesterday during a meeting with Republican senators. He's urging them to get rid of the filibuster. Senate Republican leader John Thune says that's not happening. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical today of the government's argument that President Trump could bypass Congress to impose tariffs on other countries by using a national national security as a legal rationale. As NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports, the case is yet another opportunity for the high to determine how much power a president has.
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The case focused on the country by country tariffs that Trump imposed on goods from nearly the entire world. This year. Trump authorized those tariffs using a 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers act, or iepa, which gives a president broad powers during an emergency. The businesses and states bringing the case argued that IPA does not explicitly give presidents the power to tariff, just to regulate imports. They added that the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to raise revenue. The administration argued, however, that the phrase regulate imports includes the power to tariff. They also argued that a president has broad powers when it comes to foreign relations. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
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UPS says its shipping services will be disrupted after a cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday. The crash at the company's global shipping hub caused a massive explosion and killed at least 11 and injured a dozen. UPS says it has contingency plans, plans in place, and the impact should be cleared up before the peak holiday season. The Israeli military has taken a group of international journalists into Gaza to observe the dividing line between Israeli occupied Gaza and the area where Gaza's population lives under Hamas control. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from inside Gaza for the first time after two years of war.
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I feel like my heart sank just climbing up to the top of this mound of dirt, looking at this expanse of destruction, piles of cement, bombed out schools and homes. Israel, for its part, is active. The war is over, but it is still locating tunnel shafts, demolishing them and other infrastructure. And Hamas for its side is regrouping in Gaza. We are here accompanied by Israeli troops. But Israel, still more than two years after the war began, is not allowing journalists into Gaza independently to interview Palestinians and to see their lives up close. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Gaza stocks gained.