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--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. This land is your land. Veterans Day. As events commemorate the occasion across the country, one of the most prominent is the wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Keeping with an annual tradition, President Trump is addressing an audience gathered to pay tribute to all who have worn a military uniform.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The impact of a federal government shutdown continues. Even though the Senate voted 60 to 40 to end it, the House of Representatives still needs to pass the measure and President Trump needs to sign it. But the federal government could open within days.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Here's NPR's Sam Greenglass. The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill lasting through January 30th after a more than month-long impasse that resulted in missed paychecks for federal workers, delayed food assistance, and air travel disruptions.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: The package includes a trio of regular appropriations bills funding some parts of the government through next September as well as language to reverse the shutdown firings of federal employees and ensure that federal workers get back pay.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: But the deal does not include an extension of expiring subsidies for health insurance premiums. Democrats have been promised a Senate vote on legislation to address the health care subsidies, but that does not guarantee it'll pass or get a vote in the House.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Romania, a member of NATO, is accusing Russia of another incursion into Romanian airspace. The Defense Ministry says it found drone fragments on its soil following Russia's overnight attack on Ukraine's Danube river ports.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The government says the fragments landed in an uninhabited area. NATO member Poland also protested a similar Russian drone incursion of its territory two months ago.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Poland and Romania are now deploying the new American Merov system to identify and counter drones.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Yemen's Houthi rebels have sent a letter to Gaza's Hamas. The Houthis indicate they've halted their attacks on Israel and on Red Sea shipping routes.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: That's as long as a shaky ceasefire holds in Gaza. NPR's Lauren Freyer reports from Tel Aviv.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: Hamas's armed wing has published a letter online that it says it received from the Houthis. In it, the rebels say they're closely monitoring developments and threaten to return to military operations if the quote enemy Israel resumes its quote aggression against Gaza.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: The letter signed by the Houthi military chief of staff. During the Gaza war, Houthi attacks sank ships, killed mariners, and disrupted global supply routes through the Red Sea and Suez Canal.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: The U.S. and Israel have bombed Houthi targets in Yemen in response. But the Houthis have not claimed responsibility for any attacks in more than a month.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: This letter is their clearest indication yet that the pause is in coordination with the Gaza ceasefire.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: At last check on Wall Street, the Dow is up nearly 300 points.
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--:-- Lakshmi Singh: President Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a $5 million civil verdict that holds him liable for sexually abusing and defaming columnist E.G. Carroll.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Yesterday, lawyers argued the writer's allegations were, quote, propped up by indefensible evidentiary rulings.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Two years ago, Carroll testified that President Trump attacked her in a department store dressing room in 1996 and during his first term publicly refuted her allegations.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Many governments around the world give people cash in an effort to reduce poverty. NPR Jonathan Lambert reports a new study published in The Lancet finds those programs can substantially improve maternal and child health.
--:-- Jonathan Lambert: In recent years, there's been loads of research showing cash transfers can have significant benefits for households, but there's been less research looking at countrywide effects.
--:-- Jonathan Lambert: To get a broader view, a team of researchers analyzed different health outcomes across 37 low- and middle-income countries with government-sponsored cash aid programs.
--:-- Jonathan Lambert: The benefits were big. Cash transfers helped about 10 percent more pregnant women get better care, which in turn improved child mortality.
--:-- Jonathan Lambert: Slightly older kids were more likely to get vaccinated, be fed nutritious food, and about 40 percent less likely to get diarrheal diseases in places with cash transfers.
--:-- Jonathan Lambert: Programs that benefited bigger chunks of the population were associated with greater health improvements.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The Nasdaq is down 153 points or roughly half a percent. The Dow has gained more than 300 points.
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