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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Few signs of progress in breaking the government shutdown stalemate.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Senate expected to meet again today after failing to reach a resolution during an unusual Saturday session.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Senate Majority Leader John Thune says there's only one way to bring the shutdown to an end. And I urge my colleagues to support a clean, continuing resolution so we can start a real discussion to address their health care mess, get back to the regular appropriations process, and above all, finally provide relief to the American people.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Extending health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, the central issue Senator Thune has called a Democratic proposal for a one-year extension, a non-starter.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. The leader has said he won't negotiate before. We're willing to negotiate once the credits are extended plain and simple And we made that in our proposal yesterday
--:-- Giles Snyder: The shutdown is now in its 40th day It has disrupted flights cut food assistance that millions of Americans rely on and left federal workers without pay Many SNAP recipients going without food assistance as a legal battle over how the Trump administration funds the benefits plays out.
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--:-- Juan Carlos Lara: From member station KQED in San Francisco, Juan Carlos Laro reports on the situation in California.
--:-- Juan Carlos Lara: Lisa Marie Fusco is a UC Berkeley student with disabilities who relies on SNAP. She hasn't gotten her benefits for the month, but says she's been able to rely on the community around her.
--:-- Lisa Marie Fusco: I have other students that are sharing what they have, sharing their food with me, sharing meals and things and supplies. And there's like a really big community effort I'm seeing out here. It's really amazing.
--:-- Lisa Marie Fusco: But Fusco says she's scared for those who don't have a community to rely on in this time and feels expendable in the eyes of the government.
--:-- Juan Carlos Lara: The California Department of Social Services says benefits may be further delayed as legal cases play out. For NPR News, I'm Juan Carlos Lara in San Francisco.
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--:-- Liz Baker: Officials are warning that more flights could end up being canceled if the shutdown persists into the Thanksgiving holiday.
--:-- Liz Baker: NPR Liz Baker reports that possibility is already causing some holiday travelers to reconsider their plans
--:-- 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
--:-- Liz Baker: 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.
--:-- Liz Baker: Many more than have already been affected since the Federal Aviation Administration announced reduced flights to and from 40 major airports earlier this week.
--:-- Liz Baker: For NPR News, I'm Liz Baker.
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--:-- Jerry Clayton: And you're listening to NPR News. to Texas now where Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says he's donating one million dollars from his campaign funds to bring Turning Point USA chapters to all Texas colleges and high schools.
--:-- Jerry Clayton: Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton has more.
--:-- Jerry Clayton: Turning Point USA is the group founded by Charlie Kirk who was killed at a college campus rally in Utah.
--:-- Jerry Clayton: Patrick said the idea came during a conversation with Turning Point leaders. In a statement he also praised young conservatives for quote challenging leftist echo chambers and said campuses should foster debate not indoctrination
--:-- Jerry Clayton: There are more than 1 school systems and over 200 colleges in the state and Patrick says he wants Turning Point USA chapters in all of them
--:-- Jerry Clayton: Patrick posted the comments Friday on social media. He's been a frequent guest at Turning Point events in the past few weeks.
--:-- Jerry Clayton: I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio.
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--:-- Walter Bingham: Israeli Holocaust survivors are marking today's 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass.
--:-- Walter Bingham: 101-year-old Walter Bingham was among those who gathered at the great synagogue in Jerusalem ahead of the anniversary to share their stories of the 1938 riots when Nazis plundered Jewish businesses and places of worship across Germany.
--:-- Walter Bingham: I saw there were lots of people and there was the synagogue smoldering in fact because of course the actual fire was laid very early in the small hours of the morning.
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--:-- Joel Snyder: In the U.K., today is Remembrance Sunday.
--:-- Joel Snyder: King Charles led the annual ceremony in London, honoring those killed in war.
--:-- Joel Snyder: I'm Joel Snyder, NPR News.
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--:-- Giles Snyder: And you're listening to NPR News.
