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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. As the government shutdown heads into its fourth week, President Trump and congressional allies are attempting to show a united front. Trump hosted a luncheon today for Senate Republicans. Here's Majority Leader John Thune.
This is now the longest full shutdown in history, but everybody here is has voted now 11 different times to open up the government, and we are going to keep voting to open up the government. And eventually, the Democrats, hopefully sooner or later, are going to come around.
Well, Democrats are urging the president to engage them on extending pandemic-era health care subsidies due to expire at the end of the year. And NPR's John Snyder says at least three Democratic-led states are taking a page out of the GOP playbook.
The messages appeared on the state agency websites in California, Illinois, and Pennsylvania that administer the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called SNAP. They blame Republicans, saying food assistance may not be available next month if the shutdown continues.
NPR's Charles Snyder reporting. The corporate owner of HBO Max, CNN, and DC Superheroes is putting itself up for sale.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on the government shutdown?
NPR's David Fokkenflik reports the announcement serves as an acknowledgement that the logic behind the huge deal that put Warner Bros. Discovery together just three years ago has collapsed.
Cable TV still makes a lot of money, but ratings and revenues are ultimately headed in the wrong direction. In 2022, Discovery took on billions of dollars in debt to acquire Warner Brothers Media from AT&T.
Earlier this year, company CEO David Zasloff announced he intended to divide the company into two to split streaming and Hollywood holdings from its conventional cable properties, such as CNN, TLC and such as CNN, TNT and Discovery. Then Skydance founder David Ellison, who recently acquired CBS's corporate parent Paramount, made an unsolicited bid for the entire company.
That opened the door to more suitors, such as the major streamers, though a top Netflix executive recently said his company was in the business of building assets, not buying them. David Folkenflik, NPR News.
For the first time in Japan, a woman has been elected to be prime minister. Today, the parliament selected Sanae Takeichi. The 64-year-old made history a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner. She fills a political vacuum that had dragged on for three months.
However, many women view Takaichi's election as a setback for gender equality and diversity campaigns in Japan because of her deeply conservative views. The historic jewels stolen from the Louvre Sunday are worth the equivalent of $102 million.
At today, according to the Paris prosecutor, who also said about 100 investigators are now involved in the search for the gems and the thieves who took them about a half hour after the famed museum in Paris opened on Sunday. You're listening to NPR News. from the presidency to prison.
This morning, former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy began a five-year sentence for illegally accepting campaign money from Libya. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports Sarkozy maintains his innocence and his lawyers are appealing.
The conservative, pro-American, former French leader left his Paris home holding hands with wife Carla Bruni amidst the acclaim of hundreds of supporters as his three children looked on. Sarkozy is now incarcerated in Paris' notorious La SantƩ prison, where he's being kept in solitary confinement for his own protection. Sarkozy was president from 2007 to 2012.
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