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--:-- Jennifer Ludden: The Trump administration says it's sending states money for full SNAP food benefits. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that's happening even as the government appeals an order to fund the program to the Supreme Court after money ran out a week ago.
--:-- Jennifer Ludden: Shortly after the ruling Thursday, a growing number of states started to announce they'd send out November's SNAP payments. Some people even woke up to the money on the cards they used to buy groceries.
--:-- Jennifer Ludden: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said benefits would keep going out all night. All of those individuals who were owed money over the first week or so of this month, who hadn't gotten it from the federal administration, are going to get their money.
--:-- Jennifer Ludden: The Trump administration earlier said it only had money for partial payments and those could take weeks. A federal judge said officials had moved too slowly and failed to consider the risk of people going hungry.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Airlines have canceled hundreds of flights to comply with an order from the Federal Aviation Administration NPR Joel Rose reports the agency says the cuts are necessary to keep the airspace safe during the government shutdown.
--:-- Joel Rose: The FAA has ordered airlines to phase in these cuts gradually, starting with 4 percent of flights at high-traffic airports this weekend and ramping up to 10 percent next week.
--:-- Joel Rose: The agency is dealing with staffing shortages of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown. And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned there could be even bigger cuts ahead.
--:-- Sean Duffy: We're going to have to continue to assess the pressure in the airspace and make decisions that may again move us from 10 percent to 15 percent, maybe to 20.
--:-- Joel Rose: The FAA wants to cut air traffic at 40 major airports, including Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. But the effects will ripple out to many smaller airports with flights that connect to those major hubs.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The government shutdown has prompted the cancellation of some Veterans Day events. Volunteers usually gather at Riverside National Cemetery in California to place flags on graves, but not this year because of lack of access to restrooms and traffic control.
--:-- Alyssa Nadwarni: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration today to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funds As NPR Alyssa Nadwarni reports the university also agreed to accept the administration interpretation of civil rights laws
--:-- Alyssa Nadwarni: Part of the deal would require Cornell an Ivy League school in upstate New York to pay the government million and also invest million more in agriculture and farming
--:-- Alyssa Nadwarni: In April, the government froze millions of dollars in research funding over accusations of racial discrimination and anti-Semitism. In addition to reinstating millions in research grants, the agreement says the Trump administration will end open investigations into the school.
--:-- Alyssa Nadwarni: This deal follows similar deals the Trump administration has made with Brown University and Columbia University.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Major stock indexes were mixed on Wall Street today. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The diamond and emerald-studded French imperial crown, which was found damaged near the Louvre after being dropped by thieves during last month's robbery, will be restored as a symbol of renaissance, the museum's director said.
--:-- Ari Daniel: Cancer research tends to involve small, short-lived animals like mice and flies, but scientists say a certain long-lived leviathan, the bow-headed whale, may have a lot to teach us.
--:-- Vera Gerbanova: University of Rochester biologist Vera Gerbanova had good reason to be interested in animals that can live more than 200 years For the bowhead whale I can tell you that there were no reports of malignant tumors
--:-- Vera Gerbanova: She connected with an Alaskan Inuit community that provided her with tissue samples from animals collected during their subsistence hunt. She and her colleagues found that bowhead cells were far better at DNA repair than human cells, an ability due, at least in part, to a particular protein.
--:-- Vera Gerbanova: Gherbinova says boosting the level of this protein in humans might one day help slow down our accumulation of mutations, reducing the risk of cancer.
--:-- Rylan Barton: For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
--:-- Rylan Barton: President Trump has pardoned former New York Mets star Daryl Strawberry on tax evasion and drug charges. Strawberry is an eight-time All-Star. He struggled with legal and personal issues after his baseball career. He pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 1995 and went to prison on drug-related charges.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The White House says Trump approved the pardon, highlighting strawberries, Christian faith and post-career sobriety.
--:-- Rylan Barton: I'm Rylan Barton. This is NPR News from Washington.
