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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Senate Majority Leader John Thune dismissed the chamber following a late-night vote that could lead to an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
--:-- Giles Snyder: After six excruciating weeks, I will stop talking and let all of you get some rest.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Senate voted Monday night 60 to 40 on a stopgap measure that keeps the government open until the end of January after a small group of Democrats and an independent cut a deal with Republicans.
--:-- Giles Snyder: However, the agreement does not include the extension of health care subsidies that Democrats sought.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The next step is up to the House.
--:-- Giles Snyder: House Speaker Mike Johnson calling lawmakers back to Washington with an eye toward a potential vote as soon as Wednesday.
--:-- Giles Snyder: At the White House, President Trump says he supports the Senate deal that would end the government shutdown, which has now entered its 42nd day.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Democrats joined Republicans on the agreement to temporarily fund the government.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Here NPR Deepa Shivram reporting on President Trump reaction
--:-- Deepa Shivram: Trump told reporters that the government would be opening back up quote very quickly though the House would still need to pass any short package before Trump can sign it.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: Based on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything, and we have support from enough Democrats, and we're going to be opening up our country.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: Trump called the deal, quote, very good, and said he would abide by it, including the measure that reverses the mass firings of government employees that took place during the shutdown.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: Giles Snyder, NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: When the House returns to Capitol Hill, Adelita Krahava is expected to be sworn in more than a month after she was elected to represent her Arizona district.
--:-- Giles Snyder: She's expected to give the final signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, has apologized for an error in judgment.
--:-- Giles Snyder: in a documentary about President Trump last year, as Philip Marks reports from London.
--:-- Philip Marks: The apology from BBC Chairman Samir Shah came in a letter to a UK parliamentary committee.
--:-- Philip Marks: President Trump had written to the BBC over the weekend asking for it to, quote, appropriately compensate him for a documentary that the BBC said had misleadingly suggested he issued a violent directive to those protesting the 2020 presidential election results
--:-- Philip Marks: The BBC Director General and News CEO both resigned Sunday night with the outgoing CEO Deborah Turness insisting that the BBC was not quote institutionally biased
--:-- Philip Marks: The chairman, Shah, dismissed suggestions the BBC had failed to deal with criticisms raised by an external advisor, which was subsequently leaked to a newspaper.
--:-- Philip Marks: For NPR News, I'm Willem Marks in London.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Authorities in India investigating a deadly explosion near a busy metro station in New Delhi.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The blast Monday evening went off near the historic Red Fort, a popular tourist destination.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Authorities say a car exploded at a traffic signal and that flames engulfed other nearby vehicles.
--:-- Giles Snyder: At least eight people were killed, several others injured.
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--:-- Giles Snyder: The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The justices Monday turned away an appeal from the former Kentucky County clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the ruling back in 2015.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Major League Baseball says it's working with gambling companies to put new limits on ways gamblers can bet on a single pitch during games.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The announcement follows the indictment of two Cleveland Guardian pitchers who are accused of conspiring with gamblers
--:-- Giles Snyder: And Pierre Becky Sullivan has more
--:-- Becky Sullivan: In many sports books both online and in person gamblers can bet on specific pitches in a baseball game on things like whether a certain pitch will be a strike or a ball or whether the speed of a pitch will be faster or slower than a certain speed.
--:-- Becky Sullivan: Now those bets at nearly all authorized gambling sites will be capped at $200 and they can't be part of a parlay.
--:-- Becky Sullivan: MLB is the latest major professional league to deal with players accused of secretly working with gamblers.
--:-- Becky Sullivan: Prosecutors say that Cleveland's all-star closer Emanuel Classé and starting pitcher Luis Ortiz each earned thousands of dollars to intentionally throw certain pitches, usually slow and outside the strike zone.
--:-- Becky Sullivan: For NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Some of the coldest air of the season so far has settled into the eastern two-thirds of the country.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Record low temperatures are expected in the southeast, including Florida.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The National Weather Service says to expect periods of snow in the Great Lakes region and in New England through Tuesday afternoon, several inches expected.
--:-- Giles Snyder: I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.
