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--:-- Ryland Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Supreme Court heard arguments today on the legality of President Trump's power to unilaterally impose tariffs on imports from dozens of other countries.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The administration argues it has the authority to do so because of national security and that a ruling against Trump would upend the economy.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Justice Neil Gorsuch, who is nominated by Trump, expressed skepticism that the president has the power to regulate trade without Congress weighing in.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Congress is a practical matter. It can't get this power back once it's handed it over to the president. And it's a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people's elected representatives.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Challengers say Trump is claiming nearly limitless authority and American small businesses are paying the price.
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--:-- Emily Russell: The program that helps millions of Americans afford heat in the winter is on pause during the government shutdown.
--:-- Emily Russell: With cold weather setting in families who receive the assistance are left to figure out how they pay their heating bills.
--:-- Emily Russell: The low home energy assistance program known as LIHEAP serves about 6 million households across the country.
--:-- Emily Russell: In New York, the application period was supposed to open earlier this week, but it's now indefinitely delayed due to the shutdown.
--:-- Emily Russell: Florence Wright and her husband live in Colton, New York, about 40 miles south of the Canadian border.
--:-- Emily Russell: They rely on the program to keep their home warm.
--:-- Emily Russell: Yeah, I mean, we burn fuel oil. What are we going to do if the heat don't go through?
--:-- Emily Russell: One tank of fuel is half of our income a month.
--:-- Emily Russell: Kansas, Pennsylvania and Minnesota have also delayed LIHEAP enrollment amid the shutdown.
--:-- Emily Russell: For NPR News, I'm Emily Russell in Saranac Lake, New York.
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--:-- Curtis Tate: Federal investigators say they've recovered the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders from the UPS aircraft that crashed in Louisville on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, including three UPS crew members.
--:-- Curtis Tate: From member station W.E.K.U., Curtis Tate has more.
--:-- Curtis Tate: The National Transportation Safety Board says the plane's voice and data recorders both sustained fire damage in the crash.
--:-- Curtis Tate: NTSB member Todd Inman says investigators won't know the condition of their contents until they are sent to a laboratory in Washington for analysis.
--:-- Curtis Tate: Inman also says according to airport security footage the left engine became detached from the plane while it was attempting to take off.
--:-- Curtis Tate: That correlates with the video that we seen of it detaching from the airplane while it is in flight
--:-- Curtis Tate: Inman says the debris field stretches half a mile.
--:-- Curtis Tate: For NPR News, I'm Curtis Tate in Richmond, Kentucky.
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--:-- Ryland Barton: New York City Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani has announced his transition team, including former city and federal officials, all women.
--:-- Ryland Barton: He vowed that his administration would be both compassionate and capable.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The 34-year-old defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa yesterday.
--:-- Ryland Barton: He now faces the challenge of implementing his agenda while navigating a hostile Trump administration.
--:-- Ryland Barton: From Washington, you're listening to NPR News.
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--:-- Ryland Barton: Starbucks union members have voted to strike next week unless the company finalizes a contract agreement.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The strike would begin on November 13th, the day Starbucks plans to distribute free, reusable red cups, one of the company's busiest days of the year.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Lung cancer is more survivable than ever, but federal funding cuts and racial disparities in care threaten such progress.
--:-- Ryland Barton: That's the finding from the American Lung Association's annual report, as NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports.
--:-- Yuki Noguchi: Just in the past decade there have been over 70 new drugs introduced to treat lung cancer
--:-- Yuki Noguchi: That has led to enormous increases in the five survival rate among those with the disease from 18 percent eight years ago to 30 percent today
--:-- Yuki Noguchi: However the report also says recent funding and staffing cuts to the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as cuts to Medicaid and health care coverage, threaten this progress.
--:-- Yuki Noguchi: And racial inequalities persist.
--:-- Yuki Noguchi: Black, Latino, and Native American people are less likely to be diagnosed early, receive treatment, and survive the disease.
--:-- Yuki Noguchi: For NPR News.
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--:-- Ryland Barton: The closest supermoon of the year is tonight.
--:-- Ryland Barton: It happens when a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit, making it appear slightly bigger and brighter.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The moon will look up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than its faintest moon of the year.
--:-- Ryland Barton: But the change can be tough to discern with the naked eye.
--:-- Ryland Barton: It's the second of three supermoons this year, and also the closest.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The last supermoon of the year will be in December.
--:-- Ryland Barton: I'm Ryland Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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