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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Trump administration says it will fully fund SNAP food benefits during the government shutdown. That's even as it appeals a new court order to pay for them. A federal judge admonished the administration for saying earlier it would make only partial SNAP payments.
What is the latest update on SNAP food benefits during the government shutdown?
He said officials failed to consider the, quote, needless suffering that it would cause millions of people. Senate Democrats say they're offering a compromise to reopen the government. Republican Senate Leader John Thune says it's a non-starter. NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a proposal to reopen the government with a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits. Those credits are set to expire at the end of the year and have been central to this government shutdown. Most Democratic senators have been holding out on voting to fund the government until Republicans agree to extend those credits. Schumer also proposed establishing a bipartisan committee to negotiate on long-term health care reforms. Republicans want to address health care subsidies after the government reopens. Any deal in the Senate would also have to pass the House, which remains out of town. Barbara Sprint and Pure News, the Capitol.
The Trump administration began scaling back flights because of the government shutdown today. Airports in Chicago, Atlanta and Denver are among those with the most disruptions. The FAA is trying to reduce flights by 10 percent to ease pressure on unpaid air traffic controllers. Scientist James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at the age of 97. As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports, his life was full of fame and controversy.
James Watson was not yet 25 years old back in 1953 when he and Francis Crick pieced together clues to figure out the chemical structure of DNA. This historic breakthrough revealed how one molecule could encode so much of life's complexity. Watson's memoir about the discovery was a bestseller, but the book and Watson got a lot of criticism for the shoddy treatment of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist who did key lab research that Watson and Crick relied on. Watson spent his entire career advancing DNA science, but he spent his later years effectively shunned by researchers in the field he pioneered. after he made prejudiced remarks about black people, women, and others. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News.
Taking up a call to overturn the landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage was on the agenda for a closed-door meeting of the Supreme Court today. Justices are considering an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses after the 2015 ruling. She's been trying to overturn an order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and fees to a couple she refused to issue a marriage license to. Stock indexes were mixed on Wall Street today. The S&P 500 edged up a tenth of a percent. This is NPR News.
How is the Senate addressing the government shutdown and health care tax credits?
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration's interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding. Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff says the agreement restores more than $250 million in research funding that the government withheld amid investigations into alleged civil rights violations. The president of Doctors Without Borders says that with the levels of malnutrition in people fleeing al-Fasher in Sudan are the worst he's seen in a career spent working in conflict zones. Kate Bartlett reports.
Since the city of Al-Fasha fell to a paramilitary group, Doctors Without Borders has been treating people who fled at their health point in the nearby town of Tawila, Darfur. Seven out of ten of those turning up are showing signs of starvation. Mohamed Javid Abdelmonim, the newly elected international president of the charity, told a press briefing in Johannesburg Friday.
I think it's really worth highlighting these statistics. because I've never seen anything so shocking in all my 15 years of my work.
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