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Nora Ramm
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Ramm. The Senate is in session today, the first weekend session since the government shut down October 1st. Democrats say they're offering a compromise to reopen the government, but Republican Senate Leader John Thune says it's a non starter. NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports.
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Barbara Sprunt
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a proposal to reopen the government with a one year extension of Affordable Care act tax credits. Those credits are set to expire at the end of the year and have been central to this government shutdown. Most Democratic senators have been holding out on voting to fund the government until Republicans agree to extend those credits. Schumer also proposed establishing a bipartisan committee to negotiate on long term health care reforms. Republicans want to address health care subsidies after the government reopens any deal. And the Senate would also have to pass the House, which remains out of town. Barbara Sprunt, NPR News, the capitol.
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Nora Ramm
More than 2,000 flights across the US have been canceled or delayed today under FAA orders. The nation's busiest airports are cutting 4% of flights building to 10% by next week. NPR's Amy Held reports.
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Amy Held
A stressed system is stressing out flyers.
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Richard Olverio
Total headache, disaster, nightmare.
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Amy Held
Richard Olverio's Philadelphia to Florida flight was rebooked twice, working unpaid. Fewer air traffic control workers are showing up. The Senate, meantime, showing up for its first Saturday session in the shutdown, capping the week it became the longest in history, surpassing the record 35 days under the first Trump administration. Mounting travel disruptions then pressured lawmakers and Trump to compromise. Now, weeks before the Thanksgiving rush, with billions of dollars and millions of travelers on the line, travel industry groups are imploring Congress to end this shutdown and avert what they say would be a crisis. Amy Held, NPR News.
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Nora Ramm
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to withhold for now payments under snap, the federal food assistance program. This allows a lower court more time to consider the administration's request to make only partial payments. SNAP benefits have lapsed for the first time in the 60 year history of the program. And Allie Coffrey is a special education teacher in Pennsylvania. She says many of her students rely on the program, so she began packing lunches for them.
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Allie Coffrey
We can come together for a common cause. And at the end of the day, the kids, the people that are really affected are the kids. They don't have to say in whatever happens, and we need to protect them. So this is helping me do that, and it's showing me that we are able to do that.
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Nora Ramm
A video of her packing lunches has received more than a million views. She says that people are sending her donations, which has restored her faith in humanity. Arctic Air is moving across much of the country this weekend, bringing cold temperatures from the northern plains to the southeast. This is NPR News in Washington. Ukrainian officials say Russia launched missiles and drones overnight targeting the country's energy infrastructure. A drone also struck an apartment building in the eastern city of Dnipro. Officials say at least three people were killed in the attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on social media the strikes on energy are aimed at harming ordinary people. Before winter, a single infusion of an experimental gene editing drug appears safe and effective for cutting cholesterol, possibly for life. The approach could someday offer a powerful new weapon to fight heart disease, the Nation's leading killer. NPR's Rob Stein has the story.
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Rob Stein
Doctors infused an experimental gene editing drug into 15 patients to test whether a one time infusion can permanently lower cholesterol by editing a gene in the liver and found the infusion could safely cut cholesterol as well as triglycerides by as much as half. The findings presented at the American Association's annual scientific meeting mirror those produced by a similar experimental approach also being tested. But much more research is needed to confirm that a one time infusion can safely and effectively cut cholesterol for life. Rob Stein, NPR News.
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Nora Ramm
Both UPS and FedEx announced yesterday they're grounding their McDonnell Douglas MD11 cargo planes after a deadly crash this week. A UPS plane crashed at its hub in Louisville, Kentucky, Tuesday moments after takeoff. 14 people were killed. I'm Nora Raum, NPR News, in Washington.
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