Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Chapter 2: What are the implications of the government shutdown on SNAP benefits?
A federal judge seems likely to rule that the Trump administration must pay snap food benefits despite the government shutdown. But NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that even if that happens, some delays in payments are expected and people will get less than they normally do.
The federal government usually sends SNAP funding to states well before the first of the month because it takes days to distribute it onto people's debit-like cards. Now, there's an added complication. The Agriculture Department's contingency money falls short of full SNAP funding for November.
The administration has said calculating partial payments would be a logistical nightmare that could take weeks. States and cities across the country have been preparing for a lapse. They're ramping up donations to food banks, offering protections if people fall behind on their bills, even shifting their own budgets to pay some amount of food aid to snap recipients temporarily.
Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington.
The FBI has arrested 20 people, including two sheriffs and 14 current or former police officers. It's part of a years-long law enforcement corruption investigation in the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Will Stripling reports.
Prosecutors say the officers took bribes to protect what they believed were cocaine shipments being moved through the Delta and into Memphis, Tennessee. Here's U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner.
In Mississippi, you had marked vehicles and uniformed officers driving down the road, protecting what everyone understood to be a drug shipment.
Joyner says it was a controlled sting, so 55 pounds of cocaine and briefcases full of drug money weren't really transported. But the bribes were real, with some officers taking more than $30,000. The defendants have all been granted bond. They face a slew of bribery, firearm, and drug trafficking charges. For NPR News, I'm Will Stribling in Oxford, Mississippi.
Israel's top military lawyer has resigned amid questions over a leaked video that showed Israeli soldiers severely abusing a Palestinian detainee. NPR's Aya Batraoui has more.
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