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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News, I'm 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. The Senate voted last 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. The next step is up to the House, House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling lawmakers back to Washington with an eye toward a potential vote as soon as Wednesday.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will positively vote no on the deal.
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--:-- Sarah Hosseini: Speaking at an event in San Francisco Pelosi said the recent compromise falls quote very short of what the American people need and deserve.
--:-- Sarah Hosseini: And she urged Americans to save the Affordable Care Act and key social safety nets That's what we hope that will save us now is people speaking out to their Republican members to say, I know what you're doing.
--:-- Sarah Hosseini: You're making my health care unaffordable. You're taking food out of the mouths of my children or my parents and grandparents and the rest.
--:-- Sarah Hosseini: Pelosi also called President Trump the nation's worst president for children, referring to his cuts to food assistance programs and the federal workforce overseeing special education.
--:-- Sarah Hosseini: For NPR News, I'm Sarah Hosseini in San Francisco.
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--:-- Lisa Autry: The Trump administration is again asking the U.S. Supreme Court to keep full food aid payments on hold.
--:-- Lisa Autry: The move is the latest in the legal fight over how SNAP should proceed during the government shutdown.
--:-- Lisa Autry: The justices expected to decide late today whether to halt lower court orders that the administration fully fund SNAP amid the potential end of the shutdown.
--:-- Lisa Autry: The Supreme Court has rather declined to revisit a landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
--:-- Lisa Autry: From member station WKYU, Lisa Autry reports.
--:-- Lisa Autry: A same couple sued former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue same marriage licenses on religious grounds She appealed the jury verdict arguing protection under the First Amendment
--:-- Lisa Autry: Chris Hartman leads the Louisville fairness campaign He fears the 2015 ruling could still be revisited.
--:-- Lisa Autry: The reality is that Kim Davis' case was never the one that was going to make it to the Supreme Court. All of the experts agreed that this was the weakest possible challenge to marriage equality in the U.S.
--:-- Lisa Autry: The Conservative Liberty Council, which represents Davis, says by declining to hear the case, the court leaves the, quote, wrongly decided 2015 opinion in place.
--:-- Lisa Autry: For NPR News, I'm Lisa Autry in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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--:-- Giles Snyder: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pledging to bring to justice those responsible for Monday evening's car explosion in New Delhi.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The blast went off near the historic Red Fort, which is popular with tourists. At least eight people were killed. Several others were injured.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The explosion is being investigated under India's anti-terrorism law.
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--:-- David Folkenflick: A federal circuit court appeals panel has ruled that the owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have engaged in bad faith in dealing with contract negotiations for years.
--:-- David Folkenflick: The newsroom union has been out on strike for three years and has not had a contract for eight Here NPR David Fokenflick reporting
--:-- David Folkenflick: The block company based in Toledo Ohio is notorious in newspaper circles for its hardline stances on labor issues.
--:-- David Folkenflick: The company had repeatedly rejected the News Guild's proposals in 2020, put in place terms that cut health benefits and undermine job security.
--:-- David Folkenflick: A sharply divided union went out on strike in October 2022 on a narrow margin.
--:-- David Folkenflick: The decision says the striking news workers are entitled to their old jobs, as well as compensation for the difference in how much their health care insurance has cost.
--:-- David Folkenflick: The Block Company has not publicly commented. A staffer who answered the phones at headquarters hung up on NPR.
--:-- David Folkenflick: Block can still appeal the unanimous decision.
--:-- David Folkenflick: For NPR News, I'm David Folkenflick.
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--:-- 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 expected in the southeast, east, including Florida.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The National Weather Service says to expect periods of snow in the Great Lakes region and in New England through this afternoon, several inches expected.
--:-- Giles Snyder: This is NPR News.
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