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--:-- Janine Herbst: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Momentum is building in the Senate and at the White House for the end of the 40-day government shutdown. And Piers Luke Garrett reports at least eight Democrats support a deal with Senate Republicans.
--:-- Piers Luke Garrett: A source not authorized to share details publicly says moderate Democrats struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the White House. The agreement would fund the government until January 30th, pass an appropriations package that reverses all shutdown firings, and ensures SNAP benefit funding through next September.
--:-- Piers Luke Garrett: The congressional source also says the deal includes a vote on the Affordable Care Act by the second week of December. For 40 days, Democrats have voted to keep the government shut down in hopes of extending health care tax credits, which expire at the end of the year.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with other Democrats, opposed the deal. But President Trump said Sunday evening he's hopeful. And it looks like we're getting close to the shutdown ending.
--:-- Piers Luke Garrett: You know very soon Luke Garrett NPR News the White House Russia says it currently has no intention of resuming nuclear testing but it did acknowledge it studying the possibility This is in response to an order by President Trump for the U.S. to begin its own nuclear tests.
--:-- Piers 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.S. resumes its own nuclear arms tests. 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.
--:-- Piers 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. 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.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Investors will be reconvening after a tough week on Wall Street. Normally, they would be anticipating the next inflation report that was scheduled to come out this week, except the shutdown has delayed all economic data.
--:-- Rafael Nam: NPR's Rafael Nam has more. The Labor Department did release the inflation data for September last month but that was only because the Social Security Administration needed the numbers to help determine its cost of living adjustment for seniors next year.
--:-- Rafael Nam: But there will likely be no exception anymore until the shutdown ends, and that means investors will not be getting the latest inflation report this week. But there will be earnings from companies as usual this time of year, including from Disney and Paramount Skydance, which completed their merger earlier this year.
--:-- Janine Herbst: U.S. futures contracts are trading higher at this hour. Dow futures are up about two-tenths of a percent. NASDAQ futures are up just over one percent.
--:-- Janine Herbst: You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Two members of the BBC's leadership team resigned today after criticism of the broadcaster's editing of a speech by President Trump.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The BBC says Director General Tim Davey and News CEO Deborah Ternus both resigned today. Britain's public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on January 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Critics say the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully
--:-- Janine Herbst: Jackson Mississippi is the site of the 82nd National Folk Festival the state first time hosting the country oldest celebration of traditional arts
--:-- Shamir Mohamed: Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Shamir Mohamed has more. The National Folk Festival has been featured in nearly 30 communities around the country, but it's the first time the festival is being hosted in the Deep South.
--:-- Shamir Mohamed: Mississippi Delta Blues musician and artist James Johnson goes by the name Super Chicken. He makes guitars from items such as electric vans and cigar boxes, as well as an instrument called the diddly bow.
--:-- Shamir Mohamed: Diddly bow is one of the Delta's first blues instruments. It arrived from an African instrument called the chorus. Artists performed bluegrass, West African balafon, salsa, Irish music, and DC go-go.
--:-- Shamir Mohamed: Jackson will continue to host the festival through 2027.
--:-- Janine Herbst: For NPR News, I'm Shamir Mohamed in Jackson, Mississippi. And I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
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