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--:-- Shea Stevens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The House Rules Committee is debating over a Senate-passed funding measure to end the government shutdown.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Senate has already passed the bill.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Meanwhile, congressional Democrats are facing a backlash after eight of them compromised with Republicans.
--:-- Shea Stevens: As NPR's Dominica Montanaro reports.
--:-- Dominica Montanaro: Democrats are going to have a lot of work to do to heal this divide within their base, but they're banking on voters having short-term memories and that the issue landscape is going to continue to benefit them.
--:-- Dominica Montanaro: We saw Democrats win sweeping victories last week, and voters said affordability was their top issue. That's likely to carry through to next year's midterm elections.
--:-- Dominica Montanaro: And during the shutdown, Democrats were able to elevate health care as an important issue, too.
--:-- Dominica Montanaro: As part of the deal to reopen the government, Senate moderates say they were promised to vote on extending health care subsidies sometime next month.
--:-- Dominica Montanaro: And if Republicans block those subsidies, the GOP will own higher health care costs.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Domenico Montanaro NPR News Washington.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Supreme Court has extended its order blocking full snap payments for two more days amid signs that Congress may soon vote to end the shutdown.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The delay gives lawmakers more time to resolve differences over a short spending plan to continue fiscal year 2025 funding levels.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Some states are already providing full monthly allocations to residents who rely on SNAP to buy groceries.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The record lows being reported in the southeast and the first snow of the season may make it seem as if winter has come early to parts of the U.S., but NPR's Giles Snyder reports that the freezing temperatures are on the way out.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The National Weather Service says the unseasonably cold weather will gradually come to an end.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Forecancers say temperatures will moderate toward normal for the second part of the week in the southeast, which was hit by a major cold snap that affected states like Florida, Alabama, and Georgia.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Significant snow fell further north.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Icy interstate bridges led to multiple interstate crashes in West Virginia.
--:-- Shea Stevens: NPR's Giles Snyder.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Baby formula maker Byhart is recalling all of its products.
--:-- Shea Stevens: As NPR's Maria Godoy reports, the move comes amid an outbreak of infant botulism, a serious illness caused by bacterial toxin.
--:-- Maria Godoy: Since August at least 15 infants in at least 12 states have been hospitalized with botulism after consuming Byhart infant formula.
--:-- Maria Godoy: No deaths have been reported.
--:-- Maria Godoy: The voluntary recall includes Byhart Whole Nutrition infant formula and its Anywhere Pouches of powdered formula.
--:-- Maria Godoy: Over the weekend, Byhart had announced it was recalling two lots of its infant formula.
--:-- Maria Godoy: On Tuesday, the company said its decision to expand the recall to all of its products came amid an ongoing investigation with, quote, too many unanswered questions.
--:-- Maria Godoy: It said the safety of infants is its biggest priority.
--:-- Maria Godoy: Byhart says all of its products should be discarded.
--:-- Maria Godoy: The company says it's collaborating closely with the Food and Drug Administration.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Maria Godoy, NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: U.S. futures are flattened after hours trading on Wall Street.
--:-- Shea Stevens: This is NPR.
--:-- Shea Stevens: A rare full blackout in the Dominican Republic is being blamed on a series of failures in the transmission system for the Caribbean nation's electrical grid.
--:-- Shea Stevens: According to the state-owned Dominican Electricity Transmission Commission, two power plants shut down, triggering a cascade of failures.
--:-- Shea Stevens: But the country's energy minister says the exact cause is not clear.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The blackout has paralyzed business and transportation.
--:-- Shea Stevens: It also has caused hospitals, banks and other institutions to rely on generators.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Iraq has held parliamentary elections that were largely peaceful.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Jaina Raff has the story from Oman.
--:-- Jaina Raff: An election boycott by the movement led by Shia leader Muqtada Sadr led to relatively low turnout.
--:-- Jaina Raff: As in other elections, Iran-backed parties dominated the political scene in central and south Iraq.
--:-- Jaina Raff: Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Sudani, who came to power with support from Iran-backed parties, but also maintains good relations with the U.S., is hoping for a second term.
--:-- Jaina Raff: Initial results are expected Wednesday.
--:-- Jaina Raff: But because Iraq's political scene is so fragmented, it will likely take weeks or even months of backroom negotiations to determine which coalition has the most support and the right to choose the president and prime minister.
--:-- Shea Stevens: For NPR News, I'm Jaina Raff in Amman.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Thailand says it has paused the implementation of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Cambodia, pending an apology for a landmine explosion.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Thai Prime Minister is accusing Cambodia of laying new mines in violation of the truce that was signed just last month.
--:-- Shea Stevens: This is NPR News.
