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Giles Snyder
LIVE from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Senate Majority Leader John Thune dismissed the chamber following a late night vote that could lead to an end to the longest government shut history. After six excruciating weeks, I will stop talking and let all of you get some rest. The Senate voted Monday night 60 to 40 on a stopgap measure that keeps the government open until the end of January after a small group of Democrats and an independent cut a deal with Republicans. However, the agreement does not include the extension of health care subsidies that Democrats sought. The next step is up to the House. House Speaker Mike Johnson call calling lawmakers back to Washington with an eye toward a potential vote as soon as Wednesday. At the White House, President Trump says he supports a Senate deal that would end the government shutdown, which has now entered its 42nd day. Democrats joined Republicans on the agreement to temporarily fund the government. Here's NPR's Deepa Shivram reporting on President Trump's reaction.
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Deepa Shivram
Trump told reporters that the government would be opening back up, quote, very quickly, though the House would still need to pass any short term package before Trump can sign it.
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Donald Trump
Based on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything and we have support from enough Democrats and we're going to be opening up our country.
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Deepa Shivram
Trump called the deal, quote, very good and said he would abide by it, including the measure that reverses the mass firings of government employees that took place during the shutdown. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
When the House returns to Capitol Hill, Adelita Grahalba is expected to be sworn in more than a month after she was elected to represent her Arizona district. She's expected to give the final signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. The chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, has apologized for an error in judgment in a documentary about President Trump last year, as Philip Marks reports from London.
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Willem Marks
The apology from BBC Chairman Samir Shah came in a letter to a UK Parliamentary committee. President Trump had written to the BBC over the weekend asking for it to appropriately compensate him for a documentary that the BBC said had misleadingly suggested he'd issued a violent directive to those protesting the 2020 presidential election results. The BBC's director general and news CEO both resigned Sunday night, with the outgoing CEO, Deborah Turness insisting that the BBC was not institutionally biased. The chairman Shah dismissed suggestions the BBC had failed to deal with, criticisms raised by an external adviser, which was subsequently leaked to a newspaper. For NPR News, I'm Willem Marks in London.
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Giles Snyder
Authorities in India have been investigating a deadly explosion near a busy Metro station in New Delhi. The blast Monday evening went off near the Histor Red Fort, a popular tourist destination. Authorities say a car exploded at a traffic signal and that flames engulfed other nearby vehicles. At least eight people were killed, several others injured. This is NPR. The U.S. supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same sex marriage nationwide. The justices Monday turned away an appeal from the former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples after the ruling back in 2015. Major League Baseball says it's working with gambling companies to put new limits on ways gamblers can bet on a single pitch during games. The announcement follows the indictment of two Cleveland Guardian pitchers who are accused of conspiring with gamblers. NPR's Becky Sullivan has more.
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Becky Sullivan
In many sports books, both online and in person, gamblers can bet on specific pitches in a baseball game, on things like whether a certain pitch will be a strike or a ball or whether the speed of a pitch will be faster or slower than a certain speed. Now, those bets at nearly all authorized gambling sites will be capped at $200, and they can't be part of a parlay. MLB is the latest major professional league to deal with players accused of secretly working with gamblers. Prosecutors say that Cleveland's All Star closer Emmanuel Classe and starting pitcher Luis Ortiz each earned thousands of dollars to intentionally throw certain pitches, usually slow and outside the strike zone. Becky Sullivan, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
Some of the coldest air of the season so far has settled into the Eastern two of the country. Record low temperatures are expected in the Southeast, including Florida. The National Weather Service says to expect periods of snow in the Great Lakes region and in New England through Tuesday afternoon. Several inches expected. I'm Jael Snyder. This is NPR News.
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