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--:-- Shea Stevens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The federal government is officially in partial shutdown after Congress failed to reach an agreement on a spending bill.
--:-- Shea Stevens: As NPR's Elena Moore reports, the funding negotiations were bitterly divided. Republicans in the House of Representatives narrowly passed their spending bill earlier this month.
--:-- Shea Stevens: So it came down to the Senate, with GOP lawmakers needing at least 60 votes to get the measure through. It ultimately failed by a vote of 55 to 45, with not enough support from Democrats, who have been pushing for Republicans to negotiate on several health care provisions, including an extension for health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
--:-- Shea Stevens: So far, GOP leaders have refused to negotiate those changes in this spending bill and instead want to postpone those talks until after a stopgap bill is passed.
--:-- Elena Moore: Elena Moore, NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Many services are not affected by the partial shutdown including airline safety and payments for Social Security recipients veterans and more Members of Congress will continue to be paid
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Energy Department has instructed some employees to not use about a dozen words and phrases.
--:-- Shea Stevens: As NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports, the list includes the term climate change and the word green.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Staff in the agency's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy were sent a list of words to avoid in an email obtained by NPR.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The details of the email were first reported by Politico.
--:-- Shea Stevens: That office is the largest federal funder of technology for wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric power.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The term clean energy is among the banned terms.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Energy Department denies its staff were told to avoid specific terms.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The agency's press secretary, Ben Dietrich, wrote in an email to NPR, quote, there is no directive at the Energy Department instructing employees to avoid using phrases such as climate change.
--:-- Rebecca Hersher: Rebecca Hersher, NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Hurricanes Umberto and Imelda may pose no direct threat to the U.S. mainland, but NPR's Giles Snyder reports that damage is still possible along North Carolina's barrier islands.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Powerful waves kicked up by Hurricanes Umberto and Imelda have caused multiple unoccupied homes on North Carolina's outer banks to collapse.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The latest in a string are privately owned structures to fall victim to powerful storm waves In the North Atlantic Umberto has been dumping heavy rain on Bermuda
--:-- Shea Stevens: The storm is expected to remain well away from the island Officials here are more worried about Imelda, saying that storm is no passing squall.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR's Giles Snyder.
--:-- Shea Stevens: A federal judge in Boston says the Trump administration's arrests of immigrant protesters who support Palestinians were illegal.
--:-- Shea Stevens: U.S. District Court Judge William Young agreed with several university groups that deportations based on ideology violate the Constitution.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Young also accused Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio of misusing their powers to target immigrants.
--:-- Shea Stevens: This is NPR.
--:-- Shea Stevens: President Trump says the National Institutes of Health will invest in data sharing to boost the use of AI in detecting and treating pediatric cancers.
--:-- Shea Stevens: As NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports, the move coincides with massive cuts in federal funding for scientific and medical research.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Trump administration says it's committing an additional $50 million to an NIH program to build on ways to apply AI to fighting cancer.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Michael Kratzios directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Using artificial intelligence researchers will be able to for example build scalable models to predict how a child body responds to therapies letting doctors forecast cancer progression and minimize treatment side effects
--:-- Shea Stevens: The $50 million investment comes on the heels of billions in federal cuts to various health agencies involved with cancer prevention and research.
--:-- Yuki Noguchi: Yuki Noguchi, NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution on sending more security forces to Haiti to help combat gang violence.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The resolution, co-sponsored by the U.S. and Panama, aims to transform a multinational force into a gang suppression force.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Pakistan, Russia and China abstain from the Security Council vote.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Gangs have attained more power in Haiti since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
--:-- Shea Stevens: They now control 90% of the capital city, Port-au-Prince.
--:-- Shea Stevens: U.S. futures are lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street.
--:-- Shea Stevens: On Asia-Pacific market, shares are mixed down a fraction in Tokyo.
--:-- Shea Stevens: This is NPR News.
