Dua Halisa-Cautel

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel.

The Senate advanced a massive federal government funding package hours before the Friday night deadline.

NPR's Luke Garrett reports.

As Senate Democrats press the Trump administration to stop letting immigration officers wear masks on the job, some states are also considering ways to ban the feds from wearing masks.

What's unclear is whether states can do so.

As NPR's Martin Costi reports.

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is currently no longer facing the death penalty.

And Piersera Ventri reports.

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Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, is suspending flights of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft, which took paying customers to the edge of space and back.

Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Byrne reports.

A virus that jumps from fruit bats to humans and has a high mortality rate has been confirmed in the eastern state of West Bengal in India.

The World Health Organization says there is no evidence of transmission outside of South Asia.

Health authorities say a male and female nurse, both 25 years old and working at the same private hospital, were infected with the Nipah virus.

And as of last week, the man is recovering, but the woman is in critical condition.

The vaccine was first detected in Malaysia and Singapore back in 1999, and nearly every year since then has been detected in other parts of Asia.

So far, there is no vaccine for the Nipah virus.

I'm Dwahli Saikautel, NPR News, in New York City.

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel.

For the second Friday in a row, in single-digit temperatures, thousands of protesters took to the streets in downtown Minneapolis, calling for an end to the federal immigration surge in the city.