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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stephens. The government shutdown is now 22 days old with no sign of ending.
What is the current status of the government shutdown?
Democrats and Republicans are refusing to budge from their demands for reopening government. Meanwhile, some food banks are now signaling that they may have to suspend operations. George Matysik runs the Share Food Program in Philadelphia.
We did have a number of federal programs, including a program for local food purchasing from Pennsylvania farmers that were canceled by the USDA earlier this year. So we are already having to serve many more folks than we ever had before with less resources than we've ever had.
Mattisik says that food banks were also strained during the COVID pandemic. But unlike now, there was bipartisan support to keep programs offering. In the Middle East, Hamas has handed over two more deceased Israeli hostages. NPR's Rob Schmitz has more from Tel Aviv.
Israel's military announced that its forces escorted two coffins of deceased hostages into Israel from Gaza. The bodies will be sent to the National Forensic Institute for identification overnight. If these bodies are positively identified, there would be 13 deceased Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza. The handover of the latest bodies coincides with a visit by a U.S. delegation led by Vice President J.D. Vance, who said that the Trump administration is not going to force anything on Israel regarding which forces will be deployed in the Gaza Strip. Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson spoke at Indiana University last night. The event was originally scheduled to feature Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. who was murdered last month at Utah Valley University. Ethan Sandweiss with member station WFIU has more.
A pioneer in conservative journalism, Tucker Carlson.
A sea of red hats made for an unusual sight in solid blue Bloomington, but an event presented by Turning Point drew out campus conservatives. Maddie Dawson is a junior. She says she was excited to see Carlson, but came to support Turning Point and remember Kirk.
He tried to not persuade people differently.
How are food banks affected by the government shutdown?
He just tried to talk to people in general and just try to get his point of view out there and wanted to hear the other point of view.
IU was recently once again ranked by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression as among the country's worst public universities on free speech, in part for deplatforming several controversial speakers. For NPR News, I'm Ethan Sandweiss.
Five months after her death, Virginia Dufresne's memoir entitled Nobody's Girl is on sale. The memoir recounts Dufresne's sexual encounters with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Britain's Prince Andrew, and others. Epstein died in 2019 in a New York lockup while awaiting trial on sex crimes charges. His accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving a 20-year prison sentence at a maximum security facility in Texas. You're listening to NPR. President Trump says he should be paid $230 million in damages for the past federal investigations into his actions. Trump is threatening to sue the Justice Department, citing the FBI's search of his family estate in Palm Beach as part of a probe into his handling of classified documents.
The president says the lawsuit would also cite the probe into possible links between his campaigns. and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. A new study involving thousands of women finds that taking 4,000 steps per day reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. NPR's Alison Albrey has details.
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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