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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's latest request to pause SNAP food aid payments, leaving millions of Americans in limbo this weekend.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The temporary stay issued last night comes as the administration is appealing a court order requiring it to pay recipients full benefits for this month.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Here's NPR's Gigi Dubin reporting.
--:-- 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. Those states acted once a federal judge this week, ordered the Trump administration to restore SNAP funds by Friday.
--:-- 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: In the meantime, many states still haven't distributed November SNAP benefits and it's unclear whether states that have will be reimbursed.
--:-- Gigi Dubin: NPR News
--:-- Giles Snyder: Delays at the nation's airports expected to worsen this weekend because of the government shutdown.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Travelers facing a second day of flight cuts ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration, starting with 4 percent of flights at high traffic airports and ramping up to 10 percent next week.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warning of even bigger cuts ahead.
--:-- Sean Duffy: So if this shutdown doesn't end relatively soon, we're going to have to continue to assess the pressure in the airspace and make decisions that may, again, move us from 10 percent to 15 percent, maybe to 20.
--:-- Sean Duffy: [Speaking to Fox News]
--:-- Giles Snyder: Officials say the flight cuts are necessary to keep the airspace safe during the government shutdown.
--:-- Giles Snyder: In Washington, senators are working this weekend for the first time since the shutdown began more than a month ago.
--:-- Giles Snyder: However, a deal remains elusive.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Yesterday, Republicans rejected an offer from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer involving a one-year extension of health care subsidies, a central shutdown issue.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the offer a non-starter.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Immigration authorities using new controversial tools to help them identify and locate non-citizens who are eligible for deportation.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR's Jude Jaffe Block has more.
--:-- Jude Jaffe Block: Federal immigration agents as well as some local law enforcement now have access to cell phone apps that use facial recognition technology.
--:-- Jeremy Scott: [Senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center] tools like this can lead down a dangerous path.
--:-- Jeremy Scott: Increasing mass indiscriminate surveillance or increased surveillance in general is not compatible with democracy.
--:-- Jeremy Scott: It is compatible with authoritarianism.
--:-- Jude Jaffe Block: Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not answer questions about specific tools, but in a statement defended using technological innovation to fight crime.
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--:-- Giles Snyder: Hospital officials in Gaza say Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The return came shortly after the Israeli military said it had identified the remains of a hostage turned over last night as that of an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas during the attack that started the war.
--:-- Giles Snyder: In Ukraine, Russia launched another large-scale drone and missile attack overnight.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Authorities say an apartment building in the city of Dnipro was hit, killing three people and injuring 12 others.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Ukrainian Air Force says Russia fired more than 450 drones and 45 missiles targeting energy infrastructure across the country.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Ukraine says most were shot down but 25 locations were hit.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Millions of Americans will get an early taste of winter weather over the coming days, and NPR's Matt Bloom reports records might fall across many states.
--:-- Matt Bloom: A large mass of Arctic air is making its way from the northern plains to the southeast this weekend, bringing with it the first measurable snowfall of the season for parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Great Lakes region.
--:-- Matt Bloom: By Monday, highs in the 30s and 40s are forecast from the Ohio Valley to the southeast U.S.
--:-- Matt Bloom: Northern Texas and as far east as the Appalachians could see potentially daily record lows at or below freezing.
--:-- Matt Bloom: Even parts of northern Florida could see lows around 40 degrees closer to Veterans Day.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The cold weather is expected to last several days before warming back up to more average fall temperatures.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Matt Bloom, NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington.
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