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This message comes from Subaru, celebrating the Subaru Share the Love event now through January 2nd. By year's end, Subaru and its retailers will have donated more than $350 million to charity. Subaru, more than a car company. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. No Kings marches were held across the country today protesting the policies of President Trump, and that includes in Williamsburg, Virginia. From Member Station WHRO, Nick McNamara has more.
Several Williamsburg protesters hearkened to the city's Revolutionary War history when it was a hotbed of anti-monarch sentiment. Demonstrators mixed angst, anger, and humor on signs decrying policies and actions by the Trump administration. Jessica Anderson, Democratic candidate for the 71st House of Delegates district, told attendees that Virginia's November election makes it a bellwether state.
To set the tone for the rest of the nation and send a message to Donald Trump that we are not going anywhere.
Protesters overflowed the lawn of the Williamsburg-James City County Courthouse, with many waving signs and flags to the approval and occasional jeer of passing traffic. For NPR News, I'm Nick McNamara in Williamsburg.
As the government shutdown drags on, American farmers are getting increasingly worried about federal payments getting cut off for everything from disaster insurance to price supports. And Pierce Kirk Sigler reports from the inland northwest where wheat farmers were already dealing with high costs due to inflation and President Trump's tariffs.
Farmers here have been waiting for the Agriculture Secretary's promised aid package to commodity growers. who have seen their export markets cut off due to the administration's trade war. So far, no word or specifics, and each day that passes makes financing for next year even less certain. Byron Beeney is with the Northwest Grain Growers Co-op.
Not just the farmers, but the banks supplying the farmers with the money to operate need some insurance that the farmers are not going to be going broke.
During Trump's last trade war in 2018, federal taxpayers spent about $12 billion on relief to farmers affected by retaliatory tariffs from China.
What significant protests occurred against President Trump's policies?
Some growers say they still haven't recovered. Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
In Alaska, a major evacuation continues of hundreds of people from remote southwestern coastal villages that were devastated by flooding from a typhoon last week to Anchorage. Dozens of homes were swept away, some with people inside in the historic floodwaters. Many people left, but others remain to stay with what's left of their homes. Governor Mike Dunleavy is touring the hard-hit areas. He says Quigg is in better shape than Kipnuck.
Kipnuck needs a lot of work. We're going to go out and assess which houses can be salvageable, meaning get them back up on their foundation, deal with insulation issues, make sure the electricity is up and running.
Dunleavy says of the more than 1,000 people displaced, they won't be able to go home for at least a year and a half. And he's asking the White House for a major disaster declaration. The flooding came from the remnants of Typhoon Halong, which dumped more than six feet of water in some places. At least one person died. This is NPR News. The Federal Aviation Administration says it will allow Boeing to produce more 737 MAX airplanes by increasing the limit it imposed after a door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines jet that the company built. After the terrifying January 2024 incident, The FAA capped Boeing's production of MAX jets to 38 a month. The FAA says Boeing can now produce 42 a month, after safety inspectors conducted extensive reviews of Boeing's production lines to ensure that the small production rate increase will be done safely.
This Halloween might be the year of chewy and milky fruity treats instead of chocolate. That's as more shoppers are spooked by higher prices. The culprit is a global cocoa shortage that stretched into its second year. NPR's Alina Selyuk has more.
Federal data shows that the price of candy and chewing gum has grown more than 8 percent over the past year.
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