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--:-- Dale Willman: The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's latest request to pause snap food aid payments. It comes as the administration is appealing another court order requiring it to pay recipients full November benefits.
--:-- Dale Willman: NPR's Gigi Dubin reports.
--:-- Gigi Dubin: SNAP recipients in several states from California to Wisconsin had just begun seeing money loaded up on their EBT cards to buy food. That's since a federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore those funds by Friday.
--:-- Gigi Dubin: But the future of that government aid remains uncertain for the tens of millions of Americans who rely on it.
--:-- Gigi Dubin: The same day it said it would comply, the Trump administration appealed the ruling all the way up to the Supreme Court, which kicked the case back to an appeals court.
--:-- Gigi Dubin: It's unclear how states that have already begun paying out November benefits will handle the latest twist in the legal battle over SNAP.
--:-- Gigi Dubin: I'm Gigi Dubin, NPR News.
--:-- Dale Willman: The FAA has begun reducing flights at airports by 10 percent. That move is in response to the federal government shutdown that's been going on for more than a month.
--:-- Dale Willman: Officials say more and more air traffic controllers and TSA officers are calling out sick. They've been working without pay.
--:-- Dale Willman: But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says travelers should still keep booking flights.
--:-- Sean Duffy: The government can open back up. We could have controllers come into work, and then you're going to be stuck booking a week before you want to travel, and you're going to pay way more money, and you're going to be angry. So book it now.
--:-- Dale Willman: OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits in San Francisco and Los Angeles, each alleging that people have been harmed by interactions with chat GPT.
--:-- Dale Willman: Some of them died by suicide.
--:-- Dale Willman: Member Station KQED's Rachel Myra has more.
--:-- Rachel Myra: The lawsuits against OpenAI allege assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and that the company knew ChatGPT was psychologically manipulative and dangerously sycophantic.
--:-- Rachel Myra: Attorney Matthew Bergman leads the Social Media Victims Law Center, one of two organizations bringing the lawsuits.
--:-- Matthew Bergman: When you have a machine that is designed to lure people into developing emotional relationships, that is inherently dangerous.
--:-- Rachel Myra: An OpenAI spokesman wrote the company is reviewing the lawsuits and also that it works to train ChatGPT to spot distress and steer users toward real support.
--:-- Rachel Myra: I'm Rachel Myra in San Francisco.
--:-- Dale Willman: Consumer sentiment dropped to a three-year low in November that was led by pessimism in both personal finances and anticipated business conditions.
--:-- Dale Willman: The survey was released on Friday by the University of Michigan.
--:-- Dale Willman: It showed the index at 50.5%, which was down almost 30% since last November when Joe Biden was still president.
--:-- Dale Willman: The group feeling the most confident is stock market investors, who posted an 11% increase in sentiment.
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--:-- Dale Willman: Officials from around the world are in Beilene, Brazil for the annual UN Climate Talks.
--:-- Dale Willman: The conference kicks off on Monday, but representatives heard Friday from countries most affected by the changing world climate.
--:-- Dale Willman: Scientists say climate change is warming the world's oceans, which leads to more damaging storms, and those storms often hit lesser-developed nations.
--:-- Dale Willman: Trump administration official Kerry Lake is killing funding for the Hungarian Language Service of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.
--:-- Dale Willman: As NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the move came just as Hungary's prime minister met with President Trump at the White House on Friday.
--:-- David Folkenflik: Kerry Lake says the U Agency for Global Media will no longer serve populations of NATO allies.
--:-- David Folkenflik: The Hungarian service broadcast between 1950 and 1993, it was relaunched during Trump's first term.
--:-- David Folkenflik: Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty is a not-for-profit funded by the U.S. government. It serves audiences where there is not a robust and free press.
--:-- David Folkenflik: Orban has restricted press and other freedoms in Hungary, drawing Trump's praise.
--:-- David Folkenflik: The law appears to set out that only the agency's CEO can cancel subsidies to specific foreign language networks.
--:-- David Folkenflik: Lake has taken on the title of acting CEO, but as NPR has previously reported, it's not clear she holds that position.
--:-- David Folkenflik: There's been no announcement of Lake's appointment, nor does she appear to be eligible for it.
--:-- David Folkenflik: I'm David Folkenflik, NPR News.
--:-- Dale Willman: A Supreme Court panel in Brazil has unanimously rejected former President Jair Bolsonaro's appeal of his conviction for attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat.
--:-- Dale Willman: He was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
--:-- Dale Willman: His legal team says the charges overlap and the length of a sentence should be reduced accordingly.
--:-- Dale Willman: I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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