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What are the current challenges facing the Transportation Security Administration?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration says air travelers are experiencing the highest airport wait times ever under her agency. Han Nguyen McNeil told a House committee that workers going without pay during the partial government shutdown could lead to airport closures. NPR's Meg Anderson reports.
McNeil said some TSA officers are sleeping in their cars and selling their blood and plasma to get by.
Now multiple major airports are experiencing days where 40 to 50 percent of their staff are calling out because they simply cannot afford to report to work.
But Democrats and Republicans still seem unable to come to an agreement. Democrats say GOP proposals to fund DHS don't do enough to rein in ICE tactics, especially after the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. And Republicans continue to blame Democrats for the partial shutdown.
They said the funding impasse raises national security concerns and warned of the strain upcoming events like the FIFA World Cup might cause. Meg Anderson, NPR News.
Yesterday, a jury in New Mexico ordered social media company Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect young users from child predators on Instagram and Facebook. And today, a California jury found that Meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child.
NPR's Bobby Allen explains there's more to come in the resolution of these landmark cases.
This was just the story of one woman and her struggles and how social media led to a lot of those mental health struggles like depression and anxiety and body image issues. But really, this case is tied to thousands of others that have been consolidated into one case that are sort of waiting to see the outcome of this one. This is what's known as a bellwether. It's a test case.
Now we're going to move to see how all of those thousands of cases will settle.
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