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--:-- Corva Coleman: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Senate has passed a short-term government funding measure and sent it to the House. It's aimed at ending the federal government shutdown. The measure would fund the federal government through January 30th.
--:-- Corva Coleman: House lawmakers are returning to take up the measure.
--:-- Shamira Mohamed: From Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Shamira Mohamed has more. 13 percent of Mississippi's population relies on SNAP benefits. Cassandra Mobley, interim CEO of Mississippi Food Network, says food partners around the state accepted the egg donation swiftly.
--:-- Cassandra Mobley: Our 5,400-dozen donation was gone in three text messages.
--:-- Andy Gibson: Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gibson says the freeze in SNAP benefits has also hit farmers. We have to start looking at innovative ways that we can be prepared for this type of a federal shutdown in the future.
--:-- Shamira Mohamed: Mississippi has announced it will begin to distribute 65 percent of SNAP benefits.
--:-- Corva Coleman: For NPR News, I'm Shamira Mohamed in Jackson.
--:-- Corva Coleman: President Trump is floating an idea that might help buyers purchase a home. He was asked about it yesterday in an appearance on Fox's The Ingram Angle with host Laura Ingram.
--:-- Laura Ingram: It's not even a big deal. I mean, you pay something less from 30, some people had a 40, and now they have a 50. All it means is you pay less per month, you pay it over a longer period of time.
--:-- Lawrence Yun: The chief economist for the National Association of Realtors has this view. Lawrence Yun says that homebuyers may see small monthly savings on payments with a 50-year mortgage, but most of the upfront money would go to interest, and it would take borrowers almost 40 years of the 50-year mortgage to pay off just half of their balance.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Yemen's Houthi rebels have sent a letter to Hamas. The Houthis indicate they have halted their attacks on Israel and on Red Sea shipping routes. That's as long as a shaky ceasefire holds in Gaza.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: NPR's Lauren Freyer reports from Tel Aviv.
--:-- Houthi Military Chief of Staff: Hamas's armed wing has published a letter online that it says it received from the Houthis. In it the rebels say they 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's 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.
--:-- Corva Coleman: On Wall Street, in pre-market trading, Dow futures are flat. This is NPR.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Fast food chain Wendy's says it will close several hundred of its restaurants as part of a financial turnaround effort. There are some 6,000 Wendy's restaurant locations in the U.S. It's not clear which restaurants will be closed.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The novel Flesh by author David Soloy has won this year's Booker Prize. This goes to the best English-language book published in the United Kingdom.
--:-- Andrew Limbong: NPR's Andrew Limbaugh reports the judges said they had never read anything quite like it. The novel follows a Hungarian man named Isvan from his teen years through old age.
--:-- Andrew Limbong: He's not the most emotive character but that all covering up a tumultuous life
--:-- Andrew Limbong: The Booker Prize judges praised author David Soloy's sparse use of language.
--:-- Roddy Doyle: In a statement Prize Chair Roddy Doyle said Soloy is the first Hungarian-British author to win the award. He was shortlisted for the prize back in 2016 for his book All That Man Is.
--:-- Andrew Limbong: Flash beat out five other novels for the win, including Katie Kitamura's Audition and Susan Choi's Flashlight.
--:-- Andrew Limbong: Winners of the Booker Prize received 50,000 British pounds and, usually, a hefty bump in sales.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Andrew Limbong and Perinews.
--:-- Corva Coleman: This is Veterans Day. President Trump is scheduled to visit Arlington National Cemetery later this morning. He will lay a wreath.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Today is also the anniversary of an end to fighting in World War I with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany. The armistice was supposed to take effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
--:-- Corva Coleman: I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.
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