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--:-- Rylan Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. A federal judge has stopped the Trump administration's plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America for the time being.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The government-funded international broadcaster was founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. The Trump administration has moved to cut 532 jobs from the agency, the vast majority of its remaining staff.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The ruling preserves the jobs as the court decides on the underlying case.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Vice President J.D. Vance says he thinks a government shutdown is coming and is blaming Democrats.
--:-- Rylan Barton: NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Health care is a main reason Democrats oppose Republicans' plan to fund the government.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Vance had this to say. So if they want to talk about how to fix American health care policy, let's do it. The speaker would love to do it. The Senate majority leader would love to do it. Let's work on it together.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Democrats want to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that run out at the end of the year and repeal Republicans recent Medicaid cuts.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: The Congressional Budget Office estimates those cuts could result in millions more being uninsured.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: Earlier this month House Republicans passed a resolution to fund the government through November 21st. That measure failed in the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-seat majority.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: They need 60 votes to pass the legislation.
--:-- Danielle Kurtzleben: I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Google-owned YouTube has agreed to pay $24 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump in 2021.
--:-- Rylan Barton: As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, YouTube is one of several social media sites that banned Trump after the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
--:-- Bobby Allen: The settlement documents say most of the money Google is paying will go toward the construction of a Mar-o-Lago-style ballroom in the White House.
--:-- Bobby Allen: YouTube's payout follows similar settlements over Trump's suspensions from Instagram, Facebook, and X, formerly Twitter.
--:-- Bobby Allen: Free speech experts question the suits since First Amendment cases tend to involve government censoring speech, not private companies.
--:-- Bobby Allen: The White House and Google declined to comment.
--:-- Bobby Allen: It comes days after YouTube reinstated accounts suspended over spreading COVID and election misinformation, including podcaster Dan Bongino, who is now the FBI's deputy director.
--:-- Bobby Allen: I'm Bobby Allen, NPR News.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The Trump administration is ending the use of paper checks for various government programs today.
--:-- Rylan Barton: NPR Ashley Lopez reports that includes social security programs
--:-- Ashley Lopez: This change affects a small percentage of Social Security recipients.
--:-- Ashley Lopez: But Nancy Altman with an advocacy group called Social Security Works says there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who have trouble receiving their checks electronically.
--:-- Ashley Lopez: They don't have enough money to open a bank account. They don't have enough money to pay the fees on a checking account.
--:-- Ashley Lopez: They may have mental issues or they may not have access to the Internet. There may be all sorts of reasons.
--:-- Ashley Lopez: Social security officials have been encouraging these individuals to figure out a way to enroll in direct deposit or opt for a debit card service.
--:-- Ashley Lopez: Altman says she's concerned a government shutdown will make it harder for people to get help with that process.
--:-- Ashley Lopez: I'm Ashley Lopez, NPR News.
--:-- Rylan Barton: This is NPR in Washington.
--:-- Rylan Barton: President Trump is levying a 100 percent tariff on movies made outside the United States.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Trump says the movie production, quote, has been stolen from Hollywood in the U.S.
--:-- Rylan Barton: It's unclear how these tariffs would operate since movies and TV shows can be transmitted digitally without going through ports.
--:-- Rylan Barton: It's also unclear what it would mean for U.S. movies filmed on foreign locations.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Afghanistan's Taliban rulers appear to have cut off the country's main source for Internet.
--:-- Rylan Barton: NPR Dia Hadid reports this comes two weeks after the Taliban first suspended the Internet only to restore it later at much slower speeds.
--:-- Dia Hadid: Monitoring groups like Netblock and ProtonVPN reported that Afghanistan is in the midst of a total internet blackout after multiple networks were disconnected through the day.
--:-- Dia Hadid: Taliban officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but during the earlier internet suspension, one spokesman said the move was to, quote, prevent evil.
--:-- Dia Hadid: Among the many cohorts impacted by these cuts, hospitals, airlines, businesses, women and girls stand out because thousands were undertaking online education courses after the Taliban largely prevented them from attending school after grade six.
--:-- Dia Hadid: I'm Dia Hadid, NPR News, Nagpur.
--:-- Rylan Barton: OpenAI has announced new parental controls for chat GPT in an attempt to make it safer for teens.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The move comes after concerns about AI chatbot security for young users, including cases where teenagers took their lives after using ChatGPT.
--:-- Rylan Barton: To activate the feature, parents have to send an email or text to their teens to link accounts.
--:-- Rylan Barton: This is NPR News.
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