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Chapter 1: What is the latest update on Hurricane Melissa and its impact?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. In Jamaica, plywood has been going up over windows ahead of Hurricane Melissa. Hurricane Melissa on track to make landfall in Jamaica by early tomorrow morning. And forecasters say Melissa could be the strongest to hit the island since record-keeping began in 1851.
Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm today over the warming Caribbean Sea linked to climate change. Southeastern Cuba and the Bahamas also in the storm sites. Melissa already blamed for killing at least six people in the northern Caribbean. The largest labor union representing federal employees is calling on Congress to end the government shutdown by passing a clean, continuing resolution.
NPR's Andrea Hsu reports that close to a million and a half federal workers have been going without pay since October 1st.
In a statement, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, Everett Kelly, calls the shutdown an avoidable crisis that is harming families, communities and the very institutions that hold our country together.
He called on Congress to pass a clean continuing resolution, a move Democrats have rejected as part of their effort to force Republicans to negotiate on federal health care subsidies. Kelly wrote there is no winning a government shutdown. Instead, they cost taxpayers billions and erode confidence. But some federal workers have urged Democrats to stand firm.
They see the shutdown as a chance for lawmakers to reassert their authority over government spending and push back against the president's agenda. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
National Guard troops under the control of President Trump have yet to deploy in Portland, Oregon. Hundreds of them have sat idle nearby for nearly a month. But that could change this week, as Oregon Public Broadcasting's Dirk Vander Hart reports.
Trump called in the National Guard to defend a U.S. immigration and customs enforcement facility in the city that has been the target of protests. But the deployment has been held up in court. A federal judge barred Trump from sending in troops earlier this month. Then an appeals court ruled last week the deployment was lawful. But that ruling is now on pause.
Judges with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals are weighing whether to give the matter a closer look. They expect to decide by Tuesday evening. Protests at the ICE facility turned briefly destructive in June, prompting a partial closure of the building. Since then, demonstrations have mostly been small and peaceful, though attendance has ticked up since Trump called in the guard.
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Chapter 2: How is the government shutdown affecting federal workers?
A U.S. official says the detention was related to statements Hamdi made about the Middle East. King Charles III has again been heckled over his younger brother, Prince Andrew's, involvement in the Epstein affair. The scandal loomed on a day when Charles unveiled a national memorial for gay veterans in the English Midlands.
NPR's Lauren Freyer reports the event was King Charles' first official event in support of LGBTQ rights.
King Charles laid flowers at a bronze sculpture carved with words from personal letters once used to incriminate gay service members. An independent commission found they suffered systemic abuse under a ban on homosexuality in the military that lasted until the year 2000.
Crowds lined up to thank the king for his support for LGBTQ rights, but others yelled at him about his younger brother's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
How long have you known about Andrew and Epstein?
In a posthumous memoir published this month, one of Epstein's accusers says she also had sex with the prince, something he denies when she was 17. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.
Game three of Major League Baseball's World Series set to get underway in Los Angeles in a couple of hours. I'm Jalil Snyder, NPR News.
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