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--:-- Korva Coleman: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. The federal government has been shut down for more than two weeks.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Last night, Senate Democrats and Republicans failed again to agree on a spending bill to end it. President Trump has been firing federal workers since October 1st.
--:-- Korva Coleman: A federal court will hold a hearing today over a lawsuit that claims the firings are illegal.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Trump also says he will continue to target Democratic programs for closure during the shutdown.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Israel and Hamas are exchanging the remains of those killed in the Gaza conflict. It's the first phase of the ceasefire.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Hamas has turned over eight bodies of hostages to Israel, but the Israeli military says it has determined one of those bodies was not a hostage.
--:-- Korva Coleman: And Piers Gregg Meirier reports the exchanges are a point of friction.
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--:-- Piers Gregg Meirier: Israel handed over the remains of 45 Palestinians that were delivered to a medical complex in southern Gaza.
--:-- Piers Gregg Meirier: Under the ceasefire deal Hamas is supposed to return all 28 dead hostages and Israel will return several hundred Palestinian bodies Hamas says it needs more time to locate all the Israeli bodies due to the heavy fighting Some may be buried under rubble.
--:-- Piers Gregg Meirier: Israel told the United Nations it is reducing the amount of aid going into Gaza on Wednesday because it believes Hamas isn't doing enough to return the Israeli bodies.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Korva Coleman: President Trump is strongly backing Argentina's president, who came to visit him yesterday at the White House.
--:-- Korva Coleman: NPR's Giles Snyder says Trump is taking an unusual move.
--:-- Korva Coleman: President Trump is holding U.S. aid over the heads of Argentinian voters.
--:-- Korva Coleman: During a White House meeting with President Javier Millet, Trump warned them not to abandon Millet.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Millet is not on the ballot, but this month's election for seats in the National Congress is seen as a referendum on his policies.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Millet was at the White House after the Trump administration provided his country with a $20 billion financial lifeline.
--:-- Korva Coleman: NPR's Giles Snyder reporting.
--:-- Korva Coleman: The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case that challenges the last major provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
--:-- Korva Coleman: This provision makes sure that minority voters don't get shut out when new congressional districts are being drawn up.
--:-- Korva Coleman: NPR Nina Totenberg has more.
--:-- Nina Totenberg: When the law was passed in 1965 there were just 12 minority House members Today there are 134 Black Hispanic and Asian American House members
--:-- Nina Totenberg: That could change, however, if the court removes the guardrails to redistricting that it endorsed as recently as two years ago.
--:-- Nina Totenberg: Indeed, if the conservative majority either nullifies the redistricting provision of the law or makes it much more difficult to enforce, Democrats could lose as many as 19 congressional seats, putting control of the House effectively out of reach for the foreseeable future.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
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--:-- Korva Coleman: The sales numbers for pop star Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl are coming in.
--:-- Korva Coleman: NPR's Hazel Sills reports that her album is a record-breaking success.
--:-- Korva Coleman: This week, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl reaches number one on the Billboard albums chart, and all of its songs top the Billboard Hot 100, including The Fate of Ophelia at number one.
--:-- Korva Coleman: It's her 15th number one album on the chart which means she now has more number one albums than Jay and Drake whom she was previously tied with
--:-- Korva Coleman: She also now the musical act who has the second most number one albums in the history of the Billboard chart behind the Beatles
--:-- Korva Coleman: Overall, the album has sold more than 4 million equivalent album units.
--:-- Korva Coleman: That's the combo of sales and streaming that Billboard uses to rank albums each week.
--:-- Korva Coleman: And a whopping 1,334,000 copies on vinyl.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Hazel Sills, NPR News.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Grammy-winning artist D'Angelo has died.
--:-- Korva Coleman: The R&B singer passed away from cancer, according to his family statement that was released yesterday.
--:-- Korva Coleman: He was 51 years old.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Critics say D'Angelo created extraordinary music.
--:-- Korva Coleman: One of these included his 2000 video called Untitled, How Does It Feel?
--:-- Korva Coleman: How does it feel? How does it feel?
--:-- Korva Coleman: This is from the album Voodoo that won D'Angelo his first two Grammys.
--:-- Korva Coleman: Funeral services for D'Angelo have not yet been announced.
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