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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 Majority 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: Tens of millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance through SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, remained in limbo this weekend.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay of a lower court's order that SNAP payments resume in full.
--:-- Giles Snyder: In Charlotte, North Carolina, Sylvia Lindsay says a half payment she received is not enough to support her autistic grandson.
--:-- Sylvia Lindsay: It's like they want you already down and they want you to be even further down. It's just really sad and disappointing.
--:-- Giles Snyder: In a brief order signed by Supreme Court Justice Kataji Brown Jackson last night, Jackson cited an appeals court's intention to issue a judgment soon as a reason for her order.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Trump administration is fighting that lower court's decision that it fully funds SNAP amid the government shutdown.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Travelers are facing another day of flight delays at the nation's airports because of the shutdown.
--:-- Giles Snyder: According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, more than 800 flights have been canceled so far and more than 1,200 have been delayed as airlines comply with the Federal Aviation Administration order to reduce service.
--:-- Giles Snyder: On Wall Street, stocks lost ground this week.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR Scott Horsley reports that investors were left guessing about the state of the job market.
--:-- Scott Horsley: The Labor Department regular jobs tally was held up by the government shutdown for the second month in a row.
--:-- Scott Horsley: That left analysts looking for alternative measures of the strength or weakness of the labor market.
--:-- Scott Horsley: A consulting company that tracks layoff notices says it was the worst October for job cuts in more than two decades.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Consumers are feeling gloomy.
--:-- Scott Horsley: A University of Michigan survey showed consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level in three years.
--:-- Scott Horsley: And high-flying tech stocks also lost some altitude, as investors wondered if artificial intelligence will live up to all the hype.
--:-- Scott Horsley: For the week, the Dow dipped 1.2 percent, the S&P 500 index fell 1.6 percent, and the Nasdaq tumbled 3 percent.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Giles Snyder: And you're listening to NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: UPS and FedEx have grounded their fleets of MD-11 planes following this week's crash in Louisville, Kentucky that killed 14 people.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The companies announced the decision separately last night, both citing an abundance of caution, saying the grounding came at the recommendation of the plane's manufacturer.
--:-- Giles Snyder: MD-11s were made by McDonnell Douglas, which merged with Boeing in 1997.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
--:-- Giles Snyder: OpenAI facing seven lawsuits in San Francisco and Los Angeles each alleging that people have been harmed by interactions with ChatGPT.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Some of them died by suicide.
--:-- Rachel Miro: Rachel Miro member station KQED has more.
--:-- Rachel Miro: The lawsuits against OpenAI allege assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and that the company knew ChatGPT was psychologically manipulative and dangerously sycophantic.
--:-- Matthew Bergman: When you have a machine that is designed to lure people into developing emotional relationships, that is inherently dangerous.
--:-- Rachel Miro: 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-world support.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Rachel Miro in San Francisco.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Another typhoon has the Philippines in its sight.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The storm already bringing strong winds and heavy rain.
--:-- Giles Snyder: and is forecast to make landfall by early Monday.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Earlier this week, a typhoon killed more than 200 people in the Philippines.
--:-- Giles Snyder: I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News.
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