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--:-- Janine Herbst: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The Supreme Court issued an order last night allowing the Trump administration to block full-staff benefits for now.
--:-- Janine Herbst: And Pierre Zimie Held reports it's the latest legal turn upending the nation's largest anti-hunger program in the longest ever government shutdown.
--:-- Pierre Zimie Held: More snap whiplash. Several states had already said they were distributing full benefits, including California, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, after a judge Thursday ordered the Trump administration to pay.
--:-- Pierre Zimie Held: But the high court's administrative stay means states must now revert back to partial payments, at least until an appeals court weighs in.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Sylvia Lindsay in North Carolina got half her benefits Friday. Not enough, she says, for her and her grandson she supports who has autism.
--:-- Sylvia Lindsay: You're already down and they want you to be even farther down. It's just really sad and disappointing.
--:-- Janine Herbst: One in eight Americans rely on the program Mostly very low families seniors or people with disabilities
--:-- Pierre Zimie Held: Amy Held NPR News
--:-- Janine Herbst: The top Trump administration official overseeing federal statistical agencies is raising concerns about how well the government protects the data it collects from the public.
--:-- Janine Herbst: NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports on the multiple lawsuits the administration is facing claiming it's violated data privacy protections.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: Mark Calabria started in July as the chief statistician at the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: Speaking at the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, Calabria said the federal government is falling short on keeping the data it collects from the public secure.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: I'm not convinced that we, the government, live up to those same standards on a daily basis that we expect of the private sector.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: And so part of my agenda is how do we get ourselves there where we can say that the federal government is first in class in protecting your data?
--:-- Janine Herbst: OMB's press office did not respond to questions about what exactly is sparking Calabria's concern.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: Multiple lawsuits claim the Trump administration violated the Privacy Act when it gave its Doge team members access to records at the IRS and other agencies.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Anzi Luang, NPR News
--:-- Janine Herbst: The U.N. says October was the deadliest month in 20 years for Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olives.
--:-- Janine Herbst: MPH's Lauren Frayer has more.
--:-- Lauren Frayer: The U says it recorded more than 260 Israeli settler attacks in October that resulted in casualties property damage or both
--:-- Lauren Frayer: That an average of eight attacks per day injuring at least 140 Palestinians and vandalizing some 4,200 trees.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN, and more than 9,000 have been detained, according to Palestinian officials.
--:-- Lauren Frayer: In the week ending November 3rd, six Palestinians were killed there, according to the UN, five including two children by the Israeli military and one by a settler.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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--:-- Janine Herbst: A new national survey shows that polarization in the country is taking an emotional toll on Americans.
--:-- Janine Herbst: A majority of those surveyed say societal divisions are stressing them out.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Amir's Ritu Chatterjee has more.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: The survey by the American Psychological Association finds that 62% of adults say that social and political divisions in the country are a major source of stress.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: And they were more likely to say they feel socially isolated than those who aren't as bothered by societal divisions.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Psychologist Vale Wright with the American Psychological Association says stress and social isolation have long health consequences
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: Often those are manifested in both physical symptoms and emotional symptoms that can look like headaches fatigue stomach problems as well as increased levels of depression and anxiety
--:-- Janine Herbst: Ritu Chatterjee, NPR News.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The Danish government wants to ban social media for children under the age of 15.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Officials say they want to protect them from the large amount of violence and self-harm that's present on online platforms.
--:-- Janine Herbst: If this measure passes Parliament, it would be some of the most stringent teen social media restrictions in Europe.
--:-- Janine Herbst: It isn't clear, though, what platforms would be affected or how it would be enforced.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The move follows Austria, which enacted the world's first ban on social media for children under 16, including on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, which face huge fines for violating the rules.
--:-- Janine Herbst: I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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