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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. There are no signs of any cracks in the congressional stalemate over how to end the government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is insisting that it's up to Democrats to just support the GOP resolution to continue current spending for about a month.
So what the Democrats need to do is to vote for a clean, short-term, nonpartisan funding resolution sitting at the desk right now in the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats are only demanding an extension of health care subsidies that will soon expire.
Cost is the number one issue facing American people. How they're going to pay each week, their bills, and because of Trump's tariffs, because of what they did on electric rates, because food costs are going up so much, and health care is the tip of the spear.
Schumer says Republicans have done nothing to lower health care costs and that members of the GOP-run House have not worked on Capitol Hill in weeks. Gaza is facing a host of questions about its future days into Israel's ceasefire with Hamas. As NPR's Greg Myhre reports, it is not clear when Gaza will have a formal government.
At this moment, no one can legitimately claim to be in charge of the two million Palestinians in Gaza. The Hamas leadership has been eviscerated by two years of war. A ceasefire plan calls for a committee of technocrats to take over, though it's not clear when this will be established or how much authority it will have. Hamas civilian police are back on the streets, but have been clashing with Palestinian clans, which are essentially armed gangs. Looming over all of this is the staggering challenge of rebuilding a territory where an estimated 90 percent of the buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The United States is facing a housing crisis with a need for millions of units. Some cities are turning to zoning reform to ramp up supply.
What are the latest developments regarding the government shutdown?
As Cynthia Abrams from member station WPLN reports. Nashville is the latest city to adopt that approach.
Nashville is following in the footsteps of New York City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and others. City leaders have already adjusted the zoning code in certain neighborhoods to allow for more density and are looking to loosen restrictions citywide. But some affordable housing experts, like Tennessee State University professor Ken Chilton, doubt this approach will work without serious financial backing.
Who's going to pay for all this? If we really want to solve this problem, the federal government's not going to give us the money. State government's not going to give us the money. We've got to be more innovative and creative.
Chilton says cities need to start funneling dollars toward true affordable housing options if they want to see change. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
U.S. futures are flat and after-hours trading. This is NPR. Ontario's Premier Doug Ford is calling for legal action against Stellantis over the automaker's plans to shift production of the Jeep Compass from Canada to the United States. Ford says the move will affect workers in Brampton, Ontario, and he blames President Trump. Stellantis says it plans to invest $13 billion to expand U.S. manufacturing and create thousands of jobs. to counter tariffs and help increase sales. New research suggests an experimental Alzheimer's drug might help some of the people most likely to get the disease. NPR's John Hamilton reports on a study that's published in the journal Drugs.
People who inherit two copies of a gene called APOE4 face at least 10 times the average risk for Alzheimer's. But Dr. Susan Abushakra of the biotech firm Alzeon says existing treatments often cause dangerous side effects in these people.
They have an immediate need for a safe and effective approach to Alzheimer's.
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