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--:-- Rylan Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The Supreme Court is postponing its decision on whether the Trump administration has to provide full food aid payments during the government shutdown. This gives time for a deal currently making its way through Congress to end the shutdown, that would render the issue moot. President Trump only wanted to provide partial SNAP benefits, but lower courts ordered him to provide full payments and the administration sued.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Some Democrats are criticizing the shutdown deal for not delivering on their key demand the renewal of expiring health care subsidies.
--:-- Rylan Barton: NPR's Deirdre Walsh talked to one of the Democratic negotiators, New Hampshire Senator Janine Shaheen, who says Republicans committed to consider the issue.
--:-- Janine Shaheen: They got a commitment for a Senate vote by mid on a bill that they will write. I negotiated that directly with Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
--:-- Janine Shaheen: But there's no guarantee even if the Senate could pass something that the House Speaker Mike Johnson would put that on the House floor.
--:-- Janine Shaheen: But I say the White House was part of these discussions. And I pointed out that people in red states rely on these tax credits more than people in blue states.
--:-- Deirdre Walsh: President Trump's pardons of his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election do not apply to the case against them in Georgia.
--:-- Alex Helmick: But from member station WABE in Atlanta, I'm Alex Helmick, and the case is still in limbo.
--:-- Alex Helmick: The massive RICO case originally brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fawnie Willis still does not have a prosecuting attorney. That's after a Georgia court removed Willis because her relationship with a special prosecutor created an appearance of impropriety.
--:-- Alex Helmick: The prosecuting attorney's counsel of Georgia has to name her replacement by November 14th or the indictments are dismissed.
--:-- Alex Helmick: In a statement, the council's executive director, Pete Skandalakis, said Trump's pardons only apply to federal charges, not state, and his office is working on their assigned task without being influenced by outside actions.
--:-- Alex Helmick: For NPR News, I'm Alex Helmick in Atlanta.
--:-- Ada Peralta: The U.S. says it's providing another $12.6 million in international aid to help in the recovery from Hurricane Melissa.
--:-- Ada Peralta: NPR's Ada Peralta reports Jamaica was the hardest hit.
--:-- Ada Peralta: Most of that money, about $6 million, will go to Jamaica. Prime Minister Andrew Holden has met with U officials and thanked them for the aid. It does reaffirm the strong and enduring relationship between Jamaica and the United States.
--:-- Ada Peralta: In total, since the storm hit two weeks ago, the U.S. has pledged $37 million in aid for the region.
--:-- Ada Peralta: Jamaica had also been saving money for just this type of emergency. But this was a historic storm. Western Jamaica is devastated. Schools, hospitals, and tens of thousands of homes have been obliterated.
--:-- Ada Peralta: Insurance companies estimate the loss could total more than $4 billion. Jamaica only has a fraction of that on hand.
--:-- Ada Peralta: For NPR News, I'm Ada Peralta, Kingston, Jamaica.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Prosecutors in Turkey are seeking a more than 2,000-year jail term for opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul.
--:-- Rylan Barton: He's widely seen as a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was arrested with several municipal officials who were accused of running a criminal organization, accepting bribes, extortion, and bid rigging.
--:-- Rylan Barton: He's denied all allegations.
--:-- Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento: There's a new generation of artists bringing a familiar medium to TikTok, folk protest music.
--:-- Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento: They're using the traditional style to cut through the chaos of a fast-paced algorithm and endless scrolling.
--:-- Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento: NPR's Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento reports Jesse Wells posts dozens of short satirical protest songs to social media.
--:-- Jesse Wells: His music addresses the Epstein list, the No Kings demonstrations, and the war in Gaza.
--:-- Jesse Wells: War isn't murder, good men don't die. Children don't starve and all women survive.
--:-- Jesse Wells: On and offline, Wells' songs are major hits. He's amassed more than 3 million followers across TikTok and Instagram.
--:-- Jesse Wells: Last week, he received four Grammy nominations in the Folk and Americana categories.
--:-- Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento: Wells is the most visible example of how digital-savvy artists are reviving plain-spoken protest music for the masses.
--:-- Rylan Barton: A helicopter has lifted a golden cross off of Germany's highest peak for restoration.
--:-- Rylan Barton: Visitors have plastered it with stickers over the years.
--:-- Rylan Barton: The cross is being taken to a workshop nearby where the stickers will be removed, iron sanded, and new gold leaf added.
--:-- Rylan Barton: I'm Ryland Barton. This is NPR News from Washington.
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