NPR News: 10-19-2025 3AM EDT
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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Demonstrations took place across the country on Saturday. The No Kings gatherings were in protest of the policies of President Trump. Amina Jenkins from member station KBIA reports on one gathering in Columbia, Missouri.
Fire! Protesters chanted and cheered outside of the Boone County Courthouse. Barbara Peterson came to voice her opposition to changes to SNAP benefits that were part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. She arrived with a letter saying new work requirements make her ineligible for the food assistance program. Defective November 1st, I will no longer get SNAP benefits. Peterson says it's an example of how out of touch the Trump administration is.
$93 may not seem much. To the current president, the House of Representatives, the Senate. But to me, $93 is a lot of money.
Columbia's protest was one of several throughout mid-Missouri.
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For NPR News, I'm Amina Jenkins.
The Trump administration marked the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps on Saturday. Vice President J.D. Vance spoke to the thousands of people at the Corps' West Coast training facility. At times during his speech, Vance turned political as he talked about the government shutdown that's continuing with no end in sight.
As I told the president just a couple of days ago, I said, sir, we have got to figure out how to pay these Marines, both for their sake, but also, of course, because if we don't pay our enlisted Marines, every bar in Southern California is going to go out of business, and we don't want that.
Evacuation efforts are winding down in western Alaska, where the remnants of Typhoon Halong brought 100-mile-per-hour winds and record storm surge to remote coastal villages last weekend. As Alaska Public Media's Eric Stone reports, the focus is now shifting to relief and recovery.
The storm destroyed roughly 90 percent of the buildings in the village of Kipnuk and about a third of the structures in Quigillinguk. It damaged infrastructure and cultural sites across the remote region. More than 600 people have been evacuated to Anchorage in what the Alaska National Guard calls the largest airlift in state history. At an Army National Guard hangar on Friday, Governor Mike Dunleavy says crews are now assessing when, or if, residents can return home.
Hopefully over the next few weeks we'll have a much better understanding about how many people can go back to the villages and then long-term discussions as to what is this going to look like over the long term.
Officials are racing against the clock with winter around the corner. For NPR News, I'm Eric Stone in Bethel, Alaska.
The U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago is cautioning Americans to stay away from U.S. government facilities on the island nation. The unusual warning comes as tensions continue to grow between the U.S. and Venezuela over U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan boats. Venezuela is located just miles from Trinidad. People in one Trinidad community, meanwhile, are mourning the deaths of two fishermen they say were killed in a U.S. military strike on Tuesday. You're listening to NPR News. The Trump administration has fired the entire government team that supports sexual and reproductive clinics. The program is called Title X. As NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports, the clinics that rely on it are reeling.
Title X is a long-standing program. It was signed into law by President Nixon and It helps pay for birth control, cancer screenings, and testing for sexually transmitted infections, and nearly 4,000 clinics all over the country. Jessie Hitchens runs a clinic in Nebraska that receives Title X funds. She's really concerned by the fact that the whole Title X federal staff was just fired. Not knowing where we stand right now is really hard to plan for the future. She says Title X has gotten results, like bringing down high rates of syphilis and gonorrhea in Nebraska.
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