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--:-- Dale Willman: Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. The Senate held a rare Saturday session this weekend in an effort to end the now 40-day-long federal government shutdown. But senators went home with no solution and planned to return Sunday afternoon.
--:-- Dale Willman: At issue is a Democratic proposal to extend health care tax credits for one year. Republicans call that a non-starter. Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota says the shutdown is causing Americans to lose trust in governments.
--:-- Amy Klobuchar: I think they see it in some of their local officials. I always tell my local mayors they are on the front line of trust right now because people have lost trust in a lot of what's going on on the national level. I'm well aware of that. And so I think the way you do this is you find that common ground on an individual basis.
--:-- Dale Willman: Officials, meanwhile, are warning that more flights could end up being canceled if the shutdown persists into the Thanksgiving holiday, as NPR's Liz Baker reports that possibility is already causing some holiday travelers to reconsider their plans for the busiest travel days of the year.
--:-- Liz Baker: Air travel is often stressful especially around the holidays. Aside from the logistics and the money involved, there are a lot of emotions involved in travel. Aixa Diaz is a spokesperson for AAA, which releases a holiday travel forecast before big travel days like the day before Thanksgiving.
--:-- Aixa Diaz: She says this year has been tricky to predict, given the uncertainty around the government shutdown. Because anything could happen and things change daily.
--:-- Liz Baker: On Friday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy warned that by Thanksgiving, as many as 20 percent of flights could be impacted if the shutdown continues. Many more than have already been affected since the Federal Aviation Administration announced reduced flights to and from 40 major airports earlier this week.
--:-- Dale Willman: Workers in Ukraine are trying to restore power in several regions after Russian drone attacks on energy infrastructure have caused blackouts this weekend. Residential areas were also hit, killing at least six people. The BBC's James Landale has more on that story from Kiev.
--:-- James Landale: A lot of the targets were energy infrastructure. There's a clear attempt by Russia now to make living in Ukraine very, very hard. They want to make it very hard, particularly in the east, for people to get access to electricity and to get heating. And that not just a question of trying to damage Ukrainian morale but it also trying to damage Ukraine economy.
--:-- James Landale: They just want to make it very, very hard to do stuff in Ukraine simply because they think that is a long strategy that could put some political pressure on the government here in Kiev.
--:-- Dale Willman: Bolivia has a new president. Rodrigo Paz was sworn in on Saturday and is promising gradual reforms for that country, along with a shift closer to the U.S. The conservatives' election marks a major shift for the country after almost 20 years of control by the movement toward Socialism Party. The country is facing massive fuel shortages and high food prices.
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--:-- Dale Willman: The top Trump administration official overseeing federal statistical agencies is raising concerns about how well the government protects the data it collects from the public. NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports on the multiple lawsuits the administration is facing claiming it has violated data privacy protections.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wong: Mark Calabria started in July as the chief statistician at the White House's Office of Management and Budget. Speaking at the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, Calabria said the federal government is falling short on keeping the data it collects from the public secure.
--:-- Mark Calabria: On a daily basis, that we expect of the private sector. And so part of my agenda is how do we get ourselves there where we can say that the federal government is first in class in protecting your data.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wong: OMB's press office did not respond to questions about what exactly is sparking collaboration's concern. Multiple lawsuits claim the Trump administration violated the Privacy Act when it gave its Doge team members access to records at the IRS and other agencies.
--:-- Dale Willman: The death toll in Gaza continues to climb as more bodies are removed from the rubble caused by two years of fighting. Gaza health officials say the number of dead has now surpassed 69,000. A ceasefire has been in place since October 10th, and both Israel and Hamas are continuing to exchange bodies. Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Saturday.
--:-- Dale Willman: Police in Indonesia are investigating whether revenge was a motive for a bombing Friday at a high school mosque in Jakarta. They say they found explosives and writings in the home of a 17-year-old suspect who had reportedly been bullied. The suspect was among 54 people who were injured by two explosions. He's now recovering at a city hospital.
--:-- Dale Willman: I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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