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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The government reopened for business this week following a record 43-day shutdown. Federal employees began returning to work And the FAA has begun taking steps to restore flights at the nation's airports.
--:-- Giles Snyder: On Capitol Hill, NPR's Deidre Walsh reports that Congress has a lot to do in the days ahead.
--:-- Deidre Walsh: The big thing they have to deal with is the rest of the spending bills to fund federal agencies. Since the bill the president signed this week was just a stopgap measure, Congress faces another deadline at the end of January to fund federal agencies, or we could be looking at another shutdown.
--:-- Deidre Walsh: They haven't shown the ability to pass many year-long bills so we could see another stop cap bill at the end of January.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR's Dietrich Walsh reporting.
--:-- Giles Snyder: In a social media post last night, President Trump ended his support for Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. In recent weeks she has regularly criticized Trump and Republican leaders on several issues including affordability and the Epstein files
--:-- Giles Snyder: Attorney General Pam Bondi has named a senior federal prosecutor to look into Jeffrey Epstein's ties with prominent Democrats, banks and institutions. President Trump had publicly called for the investigation,
--:-- Giles Snyder: as NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: In a post on social media, President Trump accused Democrats of using the controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein files to deflect from their own actions in the recent government shutdown.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: He also called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate former President Bill Clinton and other prominent Democrats whom Trump alleges were involved with Epstein.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: In her own social media post, Bondi said she's tapping the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Jay Clayton, to take the lead on the matter.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: The moves come as Trump continues to face questions about his own ties to Epstein, particularly after House Democrats released a batch of emails this week that raised questions as to what Trump knew about Epstein's activities with underage girls.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Giles Snyder: President Trump removing tariffs on a lengthy list of items amid pressure to address high consumer prices. The list includes tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits, and other commodities.
--:-- Giles Snyder: People affected by the destructive fires in Los Angeles earlier this year are now bracing for flooding and debris flows in areas that were scarred by flames
--:-- Giles Snyder: A major storm system dumping widespread rain from El Laist Jacob Margolis reports
--:-- Jacob Margolis: The period of greatest concern is early to midday Saturday when the heaviest part of the storm is expected to press up against the mountains, essentially squeezing out a whole lot of moisture in a short period.
--:-- Jacob Margolis: Evacuation warnings have been sent out in anticipation for those in and around the Eaton and Palisades fire burn scars.
--:-- Jacob Margolis: Rainfall totals could be close to record setting. This storm might also cause delays at LAX and even generate some small tornadoes.
--:-- Jacob Margolis: Luckily, those don't usually cause much damage here.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Jacob Margolis in Los Angeles.
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--:-- Giles Snyder: The Israeli military has blocked hundreds of Israeli peace activists from reaching the occupied West Bank this weekend, where they plan to help Palestinians with the olive harvest.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The military says it declared the village where they were trying to go a closed military zone.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR's Lauren Freyer reports from Tel Aviv.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: Several busloads of volunteers were trying to reach the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of Burin.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: Their plan was to act as human shields to protect Palestinian farmers from Israeli settler attacks which have hit a record high according to the UN
--:-- Lauren Freyer: This week settlers ransacked the West Bank biggest dairy farm and also torched a mosque
--:-- Lauren Freyer: We will not stay silent while terror is conducting against Palestinians
--:-- Lauren Freyer: Lior Amichai, director of Peace Now and advocacy groups, sent NPR this voice memo from a checkpoint where Israeli soldiers blocked their passage to Boreen.
--:-- Lauren Freyer: Despite this peaceful action, the military and the police did not want us to join the Palestinians and prevented us from reaching it.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Israeli military tells NPR it did this for public safety after a week marred by an increase in violent incidents.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Lauren Fryer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Disney and YouTube have made up. They've reached an agreement that restores Disney-owned networks like ABC and ESPN back to YouTube TV following a fee dispute.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The contract dispute led to a blackout of news and sports programming for millions of subscribers.
--:-- Giles Snyder: It lasted for about two weeks.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Alphabet, which owns YouTube TV and Google, is a financial supporter of NPR.
--:-- Giles Snyder: I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: This is NPR News from Washington.
