--:-- Janine Herbst: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
--:-- Piers Amy Held: The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to block full SNAP benefits for now. And I'm here to explain.
--:-- Sylvia Lindsay: 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. But the high court's administrative stay means states must now revert back to partial payments, at least until an appeals court weighs in.
--:-- Piers Amy Held: That's right, Sylvia. Several states had already started distributing full benefits, but now they have to go back to partial payments. One in eight Americans rely on the program, mostly very low-income families, seniors, or people with disabilities.
--:-- Sylvia Lindsay: I'm one of them. I got half my benefits Friday, not enough for me and my grandson I support who has autism. You're already down, and they want you to be even farther down. It's just really sad and disappointing.
--:-- Piers Amy Held: I'm Piers Amy Held, NPR News.
--:-- Janine Herbst: More than 1,000 flights around the country have been canceled after the Trump administration ordered airports to cut flights as the FAA deals with a shortage of air traffic controllers who are working without pay.
--:-- Nick Dele Canale: The FAA says the flights at 40 airports will be cut 10 percent on a phase-in basis as the government shutdown, now on its 39th day, continues.
--:-- Jessica Lamuccio: Inside the Charlotte terminal here, I'm trying to rebook after my flight to Manchester, New Hampshire was canceled, leaving me scrambling to get to a family wedding.
--:-- Nick Dele Canale: It just makes it more complicated, right, especially with my one-year-old daughter. Just to figure out, like, what's our plan? How long do we stay here? How long do we wait it out? If we book again, is it going to get canceled again?
--:-- Nick Dele Canale: The Charlotte airport says this morning's ground stop, which lasted about an hour, was caused by staffing issues in the air traffic control tower.
--:-- Janine Herbst: For NPR News, I'm Nick Dele Canale in Charlotte.
--:-- Piers Lauren Freer: The Red Cross facilitated another transfer of human remains between Gaza and Israel, including one Israeli hostage and 15 Palestinians who were held by Israel.
--:-- Israeli Prime Minister's Office: Forensic tests show the latest body returned to Israel is that of a retired Israeli military officer.
--:-- Lior Rudev's Family: Lior Rudev was a 61-year-old volunteer ambulance driver who was killed on October 7, 2023 after a fierce battle with Hamas-led militants at the gates of the kibbutz where he lived in southern Israel.
--:-- Piers Lauren Freer: In exchange, the Gaza Health Ministry says it's received the bodies of 15 Palestinians held by Israel, but their names are not yet known.
--:-- Gaza Health Ministry: Only about a third of the total number of Palestinian bodies returned under this ceasefire have been identified amid a shortage of DNA tests in Gaza.
--:-- Piers Lauren Freer: I'm Piers Lauren Freer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Janine Herbst: You're listening to NPR News.
--:-- Ukraine Official: A Russian drone hit an apartment building in the eastern part of the country, killing at least three people and wounding a dozen others.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The attack in Dnipro was part of a larger missile and drone barrage targeting energy infrastructure across the country.
--:-- Ukraine Official: One person in Kharkiv was also killed.
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--:-- Kabir Bhatia: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2025 tonight, encompassing everything from hip-hop to grunge to British rock.
--:-- Nick Hopkins: I played keyboards with the triple crown of the British invasion - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who. Now the late Nicky Hopkins is being inducted into the Rock Hall.
--:-- Kabir Bhatia: The ceremony in Los Angeles also honors Joe Cocker, with whom Hopkins recorded many times.
--:-- Kabir Bhatia: Performers are eligible 25 years after the release of their first record.
--:-- Kabir Bhatia: Two of the longest waiting acts this year are Chubby Checker, singer of The Twist, and Carol Kay, who played bass guitar on thousands of records for everyone from The Beach Boys to Sam Cooke.
--:-- Kabir Bhatia: More recent groups in this year's class include Soundgarden, The White Stripes, Outkast, and Salt-N-Pepa.
--:-- Kabir Bhatia: For NPR News, I'm Kabir Bhatia.
--:-- Janine Herbst: An unusually strong surge of Arctic air is moving across most of the country, much of the country this weekend, bringing cold temperatures from the northern plains to the southeast.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The cold snap is likely to last for several days as it moves east, a change after a relatively warm weekend in the Mid-Atlantic, and some areas could get the first measurable snowfall of the season.
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