Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The federal government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history at 38 days.
Chapter 2: What is the impact of the federal government shutdown on air travel?
It's affecting air travel because air traffic controllers are not getting paid. Starting today, the government will begin reducing air traffic at dozens of airports because of staffing shortages. By next week, up to 10 percent of flights will be reduced. The chief operating officer of American Airlines, David Seymour, is urging Congress to agree on a spending bill and end the shutdown.
We need to get the government reopened. We need to get this aviation system back. And I implore our members of Congress to get together and get the government reopened so we can get back to normalcy.
He spoke to ABC's Good Morning America. The Senate may decide to hold another vote on a spending bill today that could end the shutdown. The Trump administration has appealed a judge's order to fully fund the government's food assistance program this month, despite the shutdown. The judge had told the administration to start funding the program today. The program is also known as SNAP.
The ongoing lapse in federal food assistance is straining millions of Americans and the organizations trying to help make up for shortfalls. As NPR's Tovia Smith reports... Many food banks and pantries are struggling to keep up with the spike in demand.
When the federal government let SNAP benefits lapse last week, pantries immediately saw more people coming and calling for help. In Boston, client advocate Juliette Smith says her pantry is already having to tell people to wait up to two weeks.
It's painful when someone comes in and we have to say, I just don't have anything for you today. We've never had to do that before, never.
Many state and local governments are helping to fund shortfalls and private donations are pouring in, but it's still not enough, food banks and pantries say. As one put it, they couldn't possibly make up for the failure of the federal government. Tovia Smith, NPR News, Boston.
Federal regulators are wrestling with how to handle artificial intelligence in mental health care. A panel advising the Food and Drug Administration met this week. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports panelists found that the biggest risks may be the ones they can't touch.
An FDA committee spent hours debating whether AI tools that promise therapy should fall under its oversight. Nick Jacobson, a researcher at Dartmouth University, testified that the problem is much broader. Millions of people are using unregulated chatbots for therapy.
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Chapter 3: What updates are there on the ongoing government shutdown?
NPR's Carrie Khan reports Trump had said he would face prosecution.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Jonathan Obando Perez was discharged last week from a Bogota hospital. The 34-year-old was one of two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-smuggling submarine. Federal officials in Bogota say there were no plans to launch a formal investigation against Obando and as it has no evidence he committed a crime in Colombia.
President Trump had posted on social media that Obando would be detained and prosecuted in Colombia. Officials there also made similar assurances. The other survivor of the attack, an Ecuadorian with a criminal narcotics record in the U.S., was also released once returned to his home country. Carrie Khan, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.
Officials in Vietnam say a typhoon has killed at least five people after it made landfall yesterday. Typhoon Kaumegi had already blasted through the Philippines, killing at least 188 other people. The president of the Philippines has declared a national emergency for his country. That's because another typhoon is coming. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.