--:-- Ryland Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Senate Republicans are preparing a bipartisan package of spending bills they hope will win new Democratic votes and end the government shutdown.
--:-- Ryland Barton: But President Trump is calling on Republicans to get rid of the filibuster, which requires 60 percent of the Senate to proceed with voting on a bill.
--:-- President Trump: I am totally in favor of terminating the filibuster, and we would be back to work within 10 minutes after that vote took place and lots of other good things would happen.
--:-- President Trump: And it doesn't make any sense that a Republican would not want to do that.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Democrats are proposing to extend expiring health care subsidies for a year and to create a bipartisan committee to address Republican demands for changes to the Affordable Care Act.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Otherwise, many Democrats say they'll continue to hold out until Trump and Republican leaders negotiate.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Trump administration began scaling flights back today because of the government shutdown.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Airports in Chicago, Atlanta, and Denver had the most disruption so far.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The FAA is trying to reduce flights by 10 percent by next weekend.
--:-- Jeremy Siegel: From member station GBH in Boston, I'm Jeremy Siegel, reporting on the move is intended to ease the burden on air traffic controllers who have been working without pay during the shutdown.
--:-- Patricia Anderweg: [Interviewee] I was supposed to fly from Boston to Australia to celebrate my 90th birthday with family this week.
--:-- Patricia Anderweg: But thanks to a series of delays and now the shutdown-induced cancellations, I missed my connecting flight.
--:-- Patricia Anderweg: I'm missing my birthday, but on the other hand, I met so many helpful people right, left, and center. I call it the journey to nowhere.
--:-- Jeremy Siegel: Airlines are phasing in the 10 percent reduction in flights, so cancellations are expected to become more widespread in the days ahead.
--:-- Jeremy Siegel: For NPR News, I'm Jeremy Siegel at Logan Airport in Boston.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Pressure on food banks has increased after the Trump administration upended SNAP benefits during the shutdown.
--:-- Ryland Barton: As Alina Neal-Sax from member station KAZU reports, this coincides with local farm contracts ending for some food banks.
--:-- Alina Neal-Sax: Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ended a popular program that gave food banks money to buy fresh local produce.
--:-- Sam Thorpe: I co-founded the farm Spade and Plow in Morgan Hill, California, where weekly food deliveries to a local food bank are about to stop.
--:-- Sam Thorpe: He says the timing is bad for everyone involved – his farm, the smaller producers he works with, and people who rely on the food bank.
--:-- Sam Thorpe: The lost revenue might force Thorpe to reduce worker hours, which could mean less food growing in the ground.
--:-- Sam Thorpe: That might mean not necessarily like rotting vegetables in the field, but it could mean things that never even got to that point.
--:-- Alina Neal-Sax: The pause on SNAP benefits has also meant fewer sales at farmers markets that accept them.
--:-- Alina Neal-Sax: For NPR News, I'm Elena Neal Sachs.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Major stock indexes were mixed on Wall Street today.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The S&P 500 edged up a tenth of a percent.
--:-- Ryland Barton: This is NPR News.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel Prize for helping discover the double helix shape of DNA, has died.
--:-- Ryland Barton: He was 97.
--:-- Ryland Barton: His discovery, along with Francis Crick, was significantly based on the X-ray diffraction data produced by Rosalind Franklin, which was shown to them without her knowledge.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Trump administration plans to auction offshore drilling rights across about a half of the Gulf of Mexico.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The sales were written into President Trump's tax and spending bill as NPR Alejandra Barunda reports.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: The auction will make about 80 million acres available in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Trump has renamed the Gulf of America.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which manages drilling in the region, says the auction price would be set as low as possible to encourage producers to bid.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: The lease sale will be the first of 30 scheduled for the region in coming years.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: Parts of the ocean off Alaska's coast will also become available for oil and gas development.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: The announcement comes right before countries gather at COP30.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: The annual climate negotiations aim to lower global levels of climate pollution.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: Burning fossil fuels is the primary driver of climate change.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The NFL's Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris is planning to show his players a video of Jesse Owens' victories at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, ahead of the team's game in Berlin this Sunday.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Falcons will face off against the Indianapolis Colts in the same stadium where Owens, who is black, won four gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler, thwarting Nazi claims of white racial supremacy.
--:-- Ryland Barton: I'm Ryland Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
