--:-- Janine Herbst: This message comes from Sony Pictures Classics with Nuremberg. The Allies seek justice for the Holocaust. The chief prosecutor leads the trial of the century, while a U.S. Army psychiatrist battles Herman Goering's mind. Nuremberg, now playing only in theaters.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Snap food assistance remains in a state of limbo for millions of needy Americans as the Trump administration tells states not to fully fund benefits.
--:-- Tovia Smith: And here's Tovia Smith reports it follows a Supreme Court order allowing the administration to pause full payments while the issue is heard by an appeals court.
--:-- Tovia Smith: Some SNAP benefits had already landed with recipients when the Trump administration warned states to undo whatever they've done to distribute that money or states would risk financial penalties.
--:-- Cindy Karkhart: I have never experienced anything like this. There's no end in sight, and I don't know that we've seen the worst of it.
--:-- Tovia Smith: Administration officials did not respond to requests for comment, but Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaking to Fox News accused quote activist judges of trying to force funding that Congress declined and blamed Democrats for the lapse in benefits.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Tovia Smith NPR News.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The FAA has ordered the grounding of MD aircraft after the deadly UPS crash in Kentucky last week.
--:-- Shandilise Duster: NPR Chandelier's Duster reports on what it means for holiday shipping.
--:-- Shandilise Duster: FedEx and UPS grounding their MD-11 aircraft could have an impact on holiday deliveries, aviation experts say. The MD-11 aircraft are a small part of UPS and FedEx fleets, but carry thousands of packages each.
--:-- Mike Stangle: If it only lasts a few days, then we shouldn't see much of an impact on holiday package deliveries and things like that.
--:-- Shandilise Duster: UPS and FedEx say contingency plans are in place to minimize disruption in deliveries.
--:-- Shandilise Duster: Aviation experts say holiday shoppers should plan to ship packages early to ensure gifts arrive on time.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Shandilise Duster, NPR News.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Hamas says it's returned the body of another Israeli soldier, but it's not a soldier killed and taken into Gaza on October 7th of 2023. It's a soldier from a previous Gaza conflict.
--:-- Piers Lauren Frayer: And Piers Lauren Frayer reports.
--:-- Piers Lauren Frayer: The Israeli Prime Minister office says forensic tests show the latest human remains returned to Israel belonged to Hadar Goldin an Israeli soldier killed in action in Gaza in 2014 and then held there for more than 11 years.
--:-- Piers Lauren Frayer: Goldin had become a national symbol. His parents waged a long public campaign. A hostage forum says the quote, people of Israel have walked beside them in their struggle.
--:-- Piers Lauren Frayer: The Israeli military published photos of Goldin's flag-draped coffin.
--:-- Janine Herbst: This is a boost for the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, under which Israel is now required to return the bodies of 15 Palestinians it has been holding.
--:-- Piers Lauren Frayer: Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Janine Herbst: This is NPR News.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Russia says Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating in two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border.
--:-- Janine Herbst: A drone strike temporarily caused blackouts in Verona's, where a missile strike seriously damaged power systems in Belgorod.
--:-- Janine Herbst: This as both countries target each other's energy infrastructure.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Ukraine's foreign minister is accusing Moscow of endangering nuclear safety after strikes hit power substations for two Ukrainian nuclear plants.
--:-- Janine Herbst: A report from the American Lung Association says federal funding cuts and racial disparities are threatening progress to combat lung cancer even as the disease is more survivable than ever.
--:-- Piers Yuki Noguchi: And Piers Yuki Noguchi has more.
--:-- Piers Yuki Noguchi: Just in the past decade, there have been over 70 new drugs introduced to treat lung cancer. That has led to enormous increases in the five-year survival rate among those with the disease, from 18 percent eight years ago to 30 percent today.
--:-- Piers Yuki Noguchi: However, the report also says recent funding and staffing cuts to the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as cuts to Medicaid and health care coverage, threaten this progress.
--:-- Piers Yuki Noguchi: And racial inequalities persist. Black, Latino, and Native American people are less likely to be diagnosed early, receive treatment, and survive the disease.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Yuki Noguchi, NPR News.
--:-- Janine Herbst: U.S. futures contracts are trading higher at this hour.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Dow futures are up about three-tenths of a percent. NASDAQ futures are up seven-tenths of a percent.
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