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--:-- Corva Coleman: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The federal government shutdown is now 37 days old and it is affecting air traffic.
--:-- Brian Bedford: We have decided that a 10 percent reduction in scheduled capacity would be appropriate to, again, continue to take the pressure off of our controllers. And as we continue to see staffing triggers, there will be additional measures that will be taken in those specific markets.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The shutdown is also cutting into federal food assistance. The Trump administration says it will pay out half the amount of people's typically monthly benefit during November.
--:-- Corva Coleman: But a new study says most eligible people will likely get less than that, and millions of recipients won't get anything at all.
--:-- Corva Coleman: President Trump says this week's poor election results for Republicans are due to the shutdown He wants GOP senators to get rid of the chamber filibuster to end the shutdown
--:-- Corva Coleman: That Senate rule requires 60 votes to pass most legislation GOP senators oppose this.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Maine Democratic Congressman Jared Golden says he is abandoning his re-election bid.
--:-- Steve Missler: Golden made the announcement in a column published in the Bangor Daily News, in which he lamented the increasing hostility in the nation's politics and threats against him and his family.
--:-- Steve Missler: He also criticized what he described as the pugilistic voices taking control of the Democratic Party, comparing it to the Tea Party movement.
--:-- Steve Missler: Golden has been under fire by fellow Democrats for his sparing criticism of President Donald Trump and critiques of his own party.
--:-- Steve Missler: He drew a primary challenger in former Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap.
--:-- Steve Missler: Golden wrote that he wasn't afraid of losing, but dreaded the prospect of winning.
--:-- Steve Missler: He's managed to hold the second congressional district seat since 2019, despite the district's increasingly rightward turn in recent years.
--:-- Steve Missler: For NPR News, I'm Steve Missler in Augusta, Maine.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Pope Leo is speaking about the treatment of migrants in the U.S.
--:-- Jason DeRose: NPR Jason DeRose reports he says immigration authorities must respect the spiritual rights of those held in detention
--:-- Jason DeRose: Pope Leo spoke to a group of reporters just outside Rome and expressed concern about the mass arrests and deportations taking place in the United States under the Trump administration
--:-- Jason DeRose: To underscore his point, Leo referred to a passage from the Gospel of Matthew, heard in many Catholic churches recently.
--:-- Jason DeRose: Jesus says very clearly, at the end of the world, we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him? And welcome. or not.
--:-- Corva Coleman: You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says there's been an explosion at a chemical plant near Yazoo City in central Mississippi.
--:-- Corva Coleman: He says this caused an ammonia leak.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The governor says emergency teams are responding and that no injuries have been reported.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The president of the Philippines has declared a state of emergency after a powerful typhoon ravaged the country's central provinces.
--:-- Anthony Kuhn: NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports the storm killed at least 114 people and left around 100 others missing.
--:-- Anthony Kuhn: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s declaration of emergency is intended to speed up relief efforts disbursement of government funds and allow price controls on basic goods
--:-- Anthony Kuhn: Typhoon Kalmagi dumped a month and a half rainfall on Cebo City in one day causing severe flooding
--:-- Anthony Kuhn: More than two million people were affected and more than half a million residents were displaced.
--:-- Anthony Kuhn: The dead includes six people killed when an Air Force helicopter on a relief mission crashed on the island of Mindanao.
--:-- Anthony Kuhn: Even as authorities grapple with the effects of Typhoon Kalmagi, they're preparing for the arrival of another powerful typhoon in the country's north early next week.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The Maldives says it is now the first country to ban smoking for an entire generation of people.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The South Asian island country's new law says that anyone born in 2007 or later, that's about 18 years old, cannot buy or use tobacco products in the Maldives ever.
--:-- Corva Coleman: They will never be legally permitted to smoke there, even when they get older.
--:-- Corva Coleman: This law also applies to tourists.
--:-- Corva Coleman: I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.
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