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--:-- Nora Rahm: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.
--:-- Nora Rahm: The Trump administration has directed states to stop action toward funding full snap benefits for the month.
--:-- Shandaleese Duster: The U.S. Department of Agriculture told states late Saturday to, quote, immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.
--:-- Shandaleese Duster: States that failed to comply with the directive could face penalties, including liability for overpayment.
--:-- Shandaleese Duster: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday night granted an administrative stay, temporarily blocking a law court order that ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits in full for this month.
--:-- Shandaleese Duster: The Supreme Court also said its order would last until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit acted on the Trump administration's request in that court for a stay.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Shondalise Duster, NPR News.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Meanwhile, the government shutdown continues. It's now on the 40th day.
--:-- Nora Rahm: The Senate is in session at this hour seeking a way forward Majority Leader John Thune says there will be a vote today
--:-- Nora Rahm: The House has been out since September 19th
--:-- Nora Rahm: Air travelers are experiencing widespread cancellations and delays at the busiest airports across the country because of a shortage of air traffic controllers.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: Late last week, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would begin cutting flight traffic up to 10 percent at 40 high-traffic airports in major markets like Atlanta, Dallas and Denver.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: On Sunday, airports across the country were bogged down by disruptions.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: By mid-morning, there were already more than 1,200 flight cancellations and 10,000 delays, according to the website FlightAware.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: The FAA is currently contending with a shortage of air traffic controllers who were already in short supply before the shutdown and now are not being paid.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: The shutdown, which began on October 1st, is the longest in U.S. history.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says flight disruptions across the country will only worsen the longer the shutdown goes on.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Joe Hernandez, NPR News.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Russia says it currently has no intention of resuming nuclear testing but acknowledged it is studying the possibility
--:-- Charles Maines: NPR's Charles Maines reports from Moscow
--:-- Charles Maines: The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to explore the possibility of nuclear testing but would do so only if the U resumes its own nuclear arms tests
--:-- Charles Maines: President Trump is threatened to do just that, in an apparent response to Russia's recent testing of two nuclear-capable delivery systems that experts note did not include atomic warheads.
--:-- Charles Maines: Meanwhile, Moscow says it's still waiting for a U.S. response to a proposal to de facto extend the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty when it sunsets in February of next year.
--:-- Charles Maines: Putin has proposed both sides continue to observe limits imposed by the treaty for an additional 12 months to give time for negotiators to hash out a new agreement.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Charles Maines, NPR News, Moscow.
--:-- Nora Rahm: This is NPR News in Washington.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Super typhoon Feng Wang slammed into the eastern Philippines today with heavy rains and sustained winds as strong as 115 miles per hour.
--:-- Nora Rahm: At least two people have died.
--:-- Vicki Barker: The head of the BBC resigned today following criticism that the broadcaster doctored a soundbite by President Trump.
--:-- Vicki Barker: In a BBC documentary about the January 6th storming of the Capitol building a Donald Trump soundbite had the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to quote fight like hell
--:-- Vicki Barker: But the producers had spliced out what Trump said next that he wanted to help his supporters quote peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard
--:-- Vicki Barker: The alleged doctoring along with allegations of bias in BBC coverage of Gaza and trans issues, had put management under growing pressure in recent weeks.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Now, the controversy has claimed the job of the BBC's Director General Tim Davey, as well as that of Head of News Deborah Turness.
--:-- Vicki Barker: For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Fedora Man is a teenager.
--:-- Nora Rahm: The day of the Louvre Jewelry Heist, the Associated Press took a picture of the crime scene.
--:-- Nora Rahm: It included a sharply dressed person wearing a fedora at a rakish angle.
--:-- Nora Rahm: It prompted millions of views and much speculation.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Who was this guy?
--:-- Nora Rahm: It turns out he's a 15-year-old who lives near Paris with his family.
--:-- Nora Rahm: He told the AP, he didn't come forward until now to keep up the mystery.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Now, he says, he's waiting for people to contact him for films.
--:-- Nora Rahm: I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.
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