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Today is Thursday, November 13th. We'll tell you how the longest government shutdown in history finally came to an end and what the new deal includes moving forward. Also, what newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein say about what President Trump did and didn't know or do. Plus, which region is bracing for heavy rain and flooding this week, why today could be one of the busiest days at Starbucks and where a so called rebellion could disrupt business. And we'll share easy ways to take part in World Kindness Day. Those stories and even more news to know next. Welcome. Welcome to the Newsworthy. All the day's news in around 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun and on the go. I'm Erica. Mandy, thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. The longest government shutdown in American history has officially ended. A spending deal to reopen the government passed in the US House yesterday, just as it did in the US Senate earlier this week. And then last night, President Trump signed it. Now remember, the bill extends funding for most agencies until the end of January. It includes three full year spending bills for other parts of the government. And it keeps President Trump from firing any more federal employees, at least for the next couple of months. Most Democrats in both chambers voted against the deal since it does not address health care tax credits that are expiring for more than 20 million Americans. But when eight Democrats joined Republicans in the Senate, its fate was basically sealed. And as part of the deal for their votes, Senate Democrats were promised to vote on health care subsidies by the middle of next month. Now that the standoff has ended, hundreds of thousands of furloughed government workers will be able to go back on the job. And the essential workers who have been showing up to their jobs without getting paid will finally get their paychecks. President Trump says the full effects of the shutdown could take weeks or even months to calculate. By the way, there's more included in the bill than just a continuation of funding. While get into some more of the unrelated provisions later in the show. For our Thing to Know Thursday segment, the House Oversight Committee released emails from the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that seemed to say President Trump knew about the abuse of underage girls when it was happening. In an email to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote, quote, I want you to realize that the dog that hasn't barked is Trump. He later got more specific, saying Trump, quote, knew about the girls and told Ghislaine to stop, but said the president never got a massage himself. Many times in the past, President Trump has insisted he had no idea anything nefarious was happening with Epstein. And yesterday, Trump accused Democrats of resurfacing the scandal to distract from the shutdown drama. But this isn't the first time Trump has been linked to Epstein. Though none of Epstein's victims have accused Trump of any wrongdoing beyond the emails, there are still efforts to get everything the Justice Department has on Jeffrey Epstein made public. House lawmakers passed a petition designed to force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files in full. Basically, if most House lawmakers sign a petition, it makes it a lot harder for the House speaker to stop a vote from happening. So now House Speaker Mike Johnson says the measure will be taken up next week. If it passes, it will call on the Justice Department to release all documents related to the late sex offender, though it will also need to pass the Senate. The largest aircraft carrier in the world has entered waters near Latin America. We're talking about the USS Ford that's carrying more than 4,000American sailors and dozens of tactical aircraft. It comes as the US Military has already been building up its presence in the region and striking alleged drug trafficking boats on both sides of South America. Things have been especially tense with Venezuela. And since this boosts the Pentagon's firepower in the vicinity of the South American country, Venezuela put its entire military arsenal at the ready just in case the US Decides to strike. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro also ordered the deployment of almost 200,000 soldiers. When President Trump was asked whether he would engage in an all out war with Venezuela, he said, quote, I doubt it. But he didn't rule it out either. And Maduro is accusing the US of fabricating a new war. Some of Venezuela's neighbors have also raised concerns over the Trump administration's anti drug trafficking campaign, specifically the attacks on small boats. Dozens of people have been killed in about 20 strikes so far. And this week, Colombia's president ordered his country to stop sharing intelligence with the U.S. already, the UK has suspended sharing some intelligence with the U.S. because it apparently doesn't want to be complicit in the boat strikes. In response, the Trump administration just said it does not comment on intelligence matters. America's Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare and nearly unanimous statement this week to criticize the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. They did not call out President Trump by name, but the bishops said they, quote, opposed the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. And as you know, Trump and his administration are carrying out the largest mass deportation campaign in American history. The bishops also wrote about violence, immigrants being vilified or separated from their families, inhumane conditions in detention centers and more, saying they're only defending God given human dignity. Still, the White House defends its immigration strategy, saying President Trump is just keeping his promise to the American people to deport criminals who are here illegally. The last time US bishops issued a special message like this was in 2013 in opposition to Obamacare's mandate that says contraception has to be covered. A strong storm is bringing high winds, heavy snow and drenching rains to California. In fact, it could end up causing the most widespread and heaviest precipitation the state has seen so far this fall as and is expected to bring an official end to California's wildfire season. It all started last night in the northern part of the state, but many meteorologists say they're especially keeping an eye on Southern California since Los Angeles and surrounding areas could get an entire month's worth of rain from this storm and it could bring flash flooding and landslides to areas that have been burned by wildfires. 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Top federal health officials, health industry executives and influencers are gathered for what's being dubbed the official MAHA Summit Reminder. MAHA is an acronym from President Trump's Call to Make America Healthy Again. Among the topics on the agenda include the future of the fda, food as medicine, psychedelics, and how to reverse aging. Just one part of the summit was broadcast. It was Vice President J.D. vance's conversation with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yesterday. During their talk, Vance praised what he called the bulldozer approach to health under President Trump, and he praised RFK Jr. For his willingness to question established science and embrace non traditional voices. But critics, including some of the country's leading medical associations, say that's part of the problem, that Kennedy's disregard for established science is forming a public distrust in mainstream medicine. The rest of the event is happening behind closed doors and is off limits to the press. It's considered the latest step in the AI infrastructure arms race. We're talking about another massive investment into data centers. Anthropic announced plans to spend $50 billion to build custom facilities in Texas and New York and more sites later to support the workloads of its artificial intelligence. The goal is for them to start coming online next year. Anthropic already had significant cloud partnerships with Google and Amazon, but this is the company's first major effort to build the infrastructure on its own. Still, other tech companies have committed even more money into similar projects. For example, Meta announced plans for $600 billion worth of infrastructure and jobs, including data centers, over the next three years. And the Stargate partnership between SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle has already planned up to $500 billion in infrastructure spending. All this spending has fueled concerns about an AI bubble. But in Anthropic's case, the company says its ambitions are in line with its revenue projections. To be continued Today is Starbucks Red Cup Day. That's the day when people who buy a holiday drink of any size, like the peppermint mocha or the iced gingerbread chai, get an extra reusable red holiday cup. Last year, Red Cup Day was the coffee chain's best sales day ever. Well, this year, Starbucks says it will be giving away more cups and it plans to add more baristas to stores to handle the extra traffic. But in some cities, that could be complicated by a so called red cup rebellion. Starbucks union members voted to approve a strike across all 550 unionized stores. The union is demanding better pay and benefits and more for baristas. Well, Starbucks CEO says the union's proposals have been unreasonable and that the company already gives them what he called the best job in retail. Either way, the coffee chain says most locations are expected to stay open and serve customers as normal today. Today is World Kindness Day. It was first started 27 years ago by a nonprofit called the World Kindness Movement. The group hopes to inspire people to treat each other better and ultimately create a fairer, kinder world. Anyone can take part simply by spreading positivity and goodwill in their own way. But a few ideas from the Random Acts of Kindness foundation include small gestures like sending an uplifting text to a friend or family member, cooking a meal for someone struggling, mailing a handwritten letter, donating blood, only leaving positive comments online, or letting someone merge in traffic. By the way, Krispy Kreme is getting in on the kindness today. It says for every dozen donuts you order, it will give you a dozen more for free, making it that much easier to share with others. That's it for the main news today. So now it's time for Thing to Know Thursday about that bill that reopened the federal government. There are some provisions tucked into it that don't actually have to do with funding. The most controversial of them allows senators to sue the government for up to half a billion dollars if federal investigators collect their phone records without them knowing about it. It's specifically designed to help the eight senators whose records were obtained as part of former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Many lawmakers on both sides criticized that measure, though. But most of those on the GOP side decided they didn't want their objections to get in the way of reopening the government. So they're going to try to kill that provision with a separate bill, likely next week. Separately, the spending deal includes a new cannabis regulation. Basically, it closes a loophole in the 2018 farm bill that's allowed THC enhanced drinks, gummies and other products even in states that have not legalized recreational marijuana. Now, makers of hemp derived products nationwide say they're going to try to negotiate new federal regulations before this one goes into effect. In states where recreational marijuana is legal, it makes no difference either way. There's also a provision that was less controversial among lawmakers. It gives members of Congress more security, both in Washington, D.C. and in their home districts. If you want to take a look at the full bill, we've linked to it in today's episode notes. Well, thank you so much for listening today. We'll catch you up on more news to know tomorrow. Until then, have a great day.