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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Senate Democrats say they're offering a compromise to reopen the government, but Republican Senate Leader John Thune says it's a non-starter.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a proposal to reopen the government with a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits. Those credits are set to expire at the end of the year and have been central to this government shutdown.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Most Democratic senators have been holding out on voting to fund the government until Republicans agree to extend those credits.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Schumer also proposed establishing a bipartisan committee to negotiate on long-term health care reforms.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Republicans want to address health care subsidies after the government reopens.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Any deal in the Senate would also have to pass the House, which remains out of town.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Barbara Sprint, NPR News, The Capitol.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Senators remain on Capitol Hill. They're working through the weekend for the first time since the government shut down more than a month ago.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay that temporarily blocks a lower court order forcing the Trump administration to pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Millions of low-income Americans remain in limbo this weekend, but SNAP recipients in Oregon, California, Wisconsin, and other states are now receiving their full November benefits anyway.
--:-- Kyra Buckley: More than 700,000 Oregon residents woke up to full EBT accounts on Friday.
--:-- Kyra Buckley: That includes 70-year-old Linda Simon in Eugene, who gets $133 per month.
--:-- Linda Simon: I am one grateful woman.
--:-- Linda Simon: She says the back and forth on if she would get her benefits has weighed heavily on her mind the last couple weeks.
--:-- Linda Simon: She felt tired and was losing hope.
--:-- Linda Simon: Now I feel a little more energized.
--:-- Linda Simon: You know, I feel like I got a dopamine hit in my brain.
--:-- Kyra Buckley: Simon plans to restock her kitchen with milk, bread, fruit, and the makings for a good pot of vegetable soup.
--:-- Kyra Buckley: For NPR News, I'm Kyra Buckley in Portland.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Both UPS and FedEx say they've grounded their fleets of the type of aircraft involved in this week's deadly crash in Louisville.
--:-- Matt Bloom: NPR's Matt Bloom reports on the decision that came at the recommendation of the plane's manufacturer.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The plane involved was a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a type of long airliner manufactured in the 90s and mostly used by cargo companies.
--:-- Matt Bloom: They make up about 9 of UPS fleet and 4 of FedEx.
--:-- Matt Bloom: UPS said in a statement that it made the decision to ground its MD-11 planes out of an abundance of caution and at the direction of the company that made them.
--:-- Matt Bloom: Federal investigators are still determining the exact cause of the Louisville crash.
--:-- Matt Bloom: Videos of the plane show its left engine and wing ablaze as it attempted to take off down the runway.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The engine fell from the wing during takeoff.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay that temporarily blocks a lower court order forcing the Trump administration to pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Millions of low-income Americans remain in limbo this weekend, but SNAP recipients in Oregon, California, Wisconsin, and other states are now receiving their full November benefits anyway.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Airlines have mostly stayed on schedule, but delays at the nation's airports are expected to worsen this weekend because of the government shutdown.
--:-- Giles Snyder: According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, more than 750 flights have been canceled so far today, with nearly 400 flights delayed as airlines comply with the Federal Aviation Administration order to reduce service.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Officials say the orders intended to keep air travel safe air traffic controllers have gone without paychecks for nearly a month.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Scientist James Watson has died. He was 97.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: Watson co the structure of DNA.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: NPR Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports his life was full of fame and controversy.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: James Watson was not yet 25 years old back in 1953 when he and Francis Crick pieced together clues to figure out the chemical structure of DNA.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: This historic breakthrough revealed how one molecule could encode so much of life's complexity.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: Watson's memoir about the discovery was a bestseller, but the book and Watson got a lot of criticism for the shoddy treatment of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist who did key lab research that Watson and Crick relied on.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: Watson spent his entire career advancing DNA science, but he spent his later years effectively shunned by researchers in the field he pioneered after he made prejudiced remarks about black people, women, and others.
--:-- Giles Snyder: And I'm Giles Snyder.
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