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What is the current status of the government shutdown?
There are no signs of the government shutdown ending three weeks in. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, there are no negotiations underway.
Democrats are withholding their votes on a short-term spending bill, asking Republicans to extend tax breaks that help make health insurance more affordable. President Trump didn't budge when asked about negotiating with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
I would like to meet with both of them, but I set one little caveat. I will only meet if they let the country open. The people want to go back to work. They want to be served. They want to They need the services of some people, and a lot of people need the money, the payroll.
For many federal workers, the first full missed paycheck will come this week. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.
One of the largest meetings of infectious disease experts is being held in Atlanta this week, and many Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts aren't there due to the federal shutdown. From Member Station WABE, Alex Helmick reports.
The conference, called ID Week, discusses how to treat, prevent, and diagnose infectious diseases. Officials say the conference chose Atlanta in part because the CDC is based here. But federal scientists at the CDC aren't being paid during the shutdown, and conference fees would not be covered by the government. And their absence has been notable. It comes at a time when measles and whooping cough infections are increasing in the country. The CDC has lost thousands of employees under the Trump administration through layoffs and resignations.
For NPR News, I'm Alex Helmick in Atlanta. As NPR's John Ruich reports, this opens a new front in its competition with Google.
The new browser is called Atlas, and the company says it's built with the chatbot ChatGPT at its core. Part of what it'll be able to do is remember past searches and context from those searches. The company says that'll make it easier to, say, pull up previous results and work with them. It'll also be able to summarize and analyze content from websites. OpenAI launched the browser on macOS and says it'll be available on Windows, iOS, and Android soon. Move takes the competition between so-called AI answer engines and traditional search to new levels. Traditional search is dominated by Google and its Chrome browser, which is the world's most popular way to access the internet. But ChatGPT has leapt in popularity as an information retrieval tool.
Google's share price fell after the announcement. John Rewich, NPR News.
President Trump's pick to lead a whistleblower protection office has withdrawn his candidacy after revelations that he sent racist text messages on ex-Paul Ingrassia said he didn't have enough Republican support to confirm him to head the Office of Special Counsel. A Politico report showed him describing himself in text as sometimes having a Nazi streak. This is NPR News. The number of news deserts in the U.S. jumped this year amid newspaper closures and funding cuts to public radio. More than a third of the nearly 9,000 U.S. newspapers that existed 20 years ago have shut down. According to Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, around 50 million people in the U.S. live with limited or no access to local news.
A new study on heart health benefits finds that taking 4,000 steps a day reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports the study included thousands of women with an average age of 72.
Women who were in the habit of walking about two miles a few times a week had a 27 percent lower risk of heart disease compared to inactive peers. And those who hit this target four times a week reduced the risk of premature death by about 40 percent. It did not matter if the women took the steps all at once or sporadic steps throughout the day.
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