Giles Snyder

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Nearly a million Filipinos have been evacuated from their homes as Super Typhoon Fung Wong lashes the country with high winds and heavy rain ahead of landfall later today.

Michael Sullivan reports on the second typhoon to hit the Philippines over the past week.

In Washington, the Senate is working through the weekend looking for a way to bring the government shutdown to an end.

The shutdown is now in its 40th day.

Its disrupted flights left federal workers without pay and threatened food assistance that millions of Americans rely on.

Hunger nonprofits are trying to meet surging demand.

Blake Farmer of member station WPLN reports from a distribution event in rural Tennessee.

Federal aviation regulators have grounded all McDonnell Douglas MD-11 planes following last week's deadly crash of a UPS airliner in Louisville.

The agency citing safety concerns.

Here's NPR's Matt Bloom.

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is denying a report that the Washington National Opera may leave its home in the nation's capital.

NPR's Chloe Veltman reports.

Health officials are investigating a series of botulism cases across 10 states.

The cases are linked to baby formula that the Food and Drug Administration says is being recalled.

No deaths, but 13 infants have been hospitalized.

The sharply dressed individual photographed by the Associated Press on the day the Louvre was robbed has been identified.

Turns out he's a 15-year-old who lives with his parents and grandfather outside Paris.

He was photographed standing in front of a group of police officers wearing a fedora.