Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on the government shutdown?
After 36 days, it's the longest government shutdown ever. President Trump says Democrats must agree to reopen the government before he'll negotiate with them over demands to extend health insurance subsidies that expire at the end of the year. Trump blamed the shutdown for the GOP's election losses yesterday during a meeting with Republican senators. He's urging them to get rid of the filibuster.
Senate Republican Leader John Thune says that's not happening. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical today of the government's argument that President Trump could bypass Congress to impose tariffs on other countries by using national security as a legal rationale.
As NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports, the case is yet another opportunity for the high court to determine how much power a president has.
The case focused on the country-by-country tariffs that Trump imposed on goods from nearly the entire world this year. Trump authorized those tariffs using a 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEPA, which gives a president broad powers during an emergency.
The businesses and states bringing the case argued that IEPA does not explicitly give presidents the power to tariff, just to regulate imports. They added that the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to raise revenue. The administration argued, however, that the phrase regulate imports includes the power to tariff.
They also argued that a president has broad powers when it comes to foreign relations. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
UPS says its shipping services will be disrupted after a cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday. The crash at the company's global shipping hub caused a massive explosion and killed at least 11 and injured a dozen. UPS says it has contingency plans in place. and the impact should be cleared up before the peak holiday season.
The Israeli military has taken a group of international journalists into Gaza to observe the dividing line between Israeli-occupied Gaza and the area where Gaza's population lives under Hamas control. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from inside Gaza for the first time after two years of war.
I feel like my heart sank just climbing up to the top of this mound of dirt. Looking at this expanse of destruction, piles of cement, bombed out schools and homes. Israel, for its part, is active. The war is over, but it is still locating tunnel shafts, demolishing them and other infrastructure. And Hamas, for its side, is regrouping in Gaza. We are here accompanied by Israeli troops.
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Chapter 3: How are tariffs being challenged in the Supreme Court?
Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Gaza.
Stocks gained ground on Wall Street today after upbeat economic updates. The S&P 500 rose four-tenths of a percent. This is NPR News from Washington. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to submit proposals for a possible resumption of nuclear tests. It comes after President Trump suggested the U.S. will restart its own atomic tests.
Putin told his Security Council that Moscow will only restart nuclear tests if the U.S. does first. A federal judge is ordering the White House to immediately begin providing American sign language interpretation at its press briefings when the president or press secretary are speaking. NPR's Kristen Wright reports.
The judge writes the exclusion of deaf Americans from White House press briefings is likely a violation of federal disability rights law and creates harm as the briefings engage Americans on important issues like the economy and health care. The National Association of the Deaf, alongside two deaf men, filed the lawsuit in May.
In a statement to NPR, NAD says it's pleased with the judge's decision and that ASL is essential to full and equal access to information. The White House stopped using the interpreters at briefings and other public events when President Trump began his second term. It has until Friday to tell the court how it will comply.
The White House did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on the temporary injunction. Kristen Wright, NPR News.
A cast-iron time capsule excavated from a 101-year-old Japanese church in Salt Lake City is helping tell the story of early immigrants to America. Inside were hand-sewn flags, Bibles, and local newspapers in both English and Japanese, and a paper with the handwritten names of its Sunday school teachers.
The Japanese Church of Christ is one of two remaining buildings in the Japantown district founded in the early 1900s. I'm Ryland Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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