--:-- Dale Willman: This message comes from Total Wine and More. November is all about gathering. Total Wine and More has wines, beers, and spirits for special moments. Find what you love and love what you find. Spirits not sold in Virginia and North Carolina. Drink responsibly. Be 21.
--:-- Dale Willman: Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. A court ruling ordering the Trump administration to fully fund payments for the SNAP Food Assistance Program has been temporarily halted. The Supreme Court Friday night put the ruling on hold until an appeals court has a chance to rule on that order. The payments have been delayed because of the government shutdown. Several states, though, have already started paying benefits. Some of those states are using state funds for the food program. Pressure on food banks increased after the Trump administration ended the SNAP benefits. This coincides with local farm contracts ending for some food banks.
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--:-- Elena Neal Sachs: From member station KAZU, I'm Elena Neal Sachs. 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 co the farm Spade and Plow in Morgan Hill California where weekly food deliveries to a local food bank are about to stop. 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 me to reduce worker hours, which could mean less food growing in the ground. That might mean not necessarily like rotting vegetables in the field, but it could mean things that never even got to that point.
--:-- Elena Neal Sachs: The pause on SNAP benefits has also meant fewer sales at farmers markets that accept them.
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--:-- Dale Willman: The death toll from Tuesday's UPS cargo plane crash has gone up. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg says an additional body was found at the scene of the crash at Louisville's Muhammad Ali International Airports. That brings a total number of known victims to 14. We pray for each of the victims' families and pray that no additional victims are lost.
--:-- Craig Greenberg: Both UPS and FedEx, meanwhile, are grounding their fleets of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft because of the crash. The planes will be given safety checks before being allowed to fly again.
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--:-- Lauren Freyer: The United Nations says October was the deadliest month in 20 years for Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians that are harvesting olives. I'm reporting from Tel Aviv. The UN says it recorded more than 260 Israeli settler attacks in October that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. That's an average of eight attacks per day, injuring at least 140 Palestinians and vandalizing some 4,200 trees.
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--:-- Lauren Freyer: 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. 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.
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--:-- Alejandra Barunda: Annual talks on climate change get underway on Monday, but many delegates are already in Belen, Brazil this weekend. They're hearing stories of the damage already caused to the nation's most vulnerable to the changing climate. I'm reporting from NPR News.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: Host Nation Brazil is pushing for support to preserve forests worldwide, and leaders are discussing unified carbon markets to help reduce carbon emissions. Researchers say damage from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica last month was made worse by climate change. As the storm made landfall, Earth is about 1 degree Celsius hotter now than it would be if humans had not caused global climate change by burning vast amounts of fossil fuels.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: That extra heat has so far mostly ended up in the world's oceans, and a lot of the energy for storms like Melissa comes directly from the ocean. A hotter ocean leads to potentially stronger, wetter hurricanes. That's exactly what scientists at World Weather Attribution think happened. Melissa had plenty of hot ocean water to feed on, so it got huge. In the end, its rainfall intensity was about 9% higher, with wind speeds roughly 7% higher than they would have been absent climate change.
--:-- Alejandra Barunda: The storm caused more than 60 deaths in the Caribbean, though that number may rise over time.
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--:-- Dale Willman: President Trump said Friday that Thanksgiving dinner this year will cost 25% less than last year. But it turns out that data was wrong. He cited a prepackaged meal basket from Walmart, but that package dropped in price because it contains fewer items and different products that makes it more affordable.
--:-- Dale Willman: I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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