Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. The Senate held a rare Saturday session this weekend in an effort to end the now 40-day-long federal government shutdown. But senators went home with no solution and plan to return Sunday afternoon. At issue is a Democratic proposal to extend health care tax credits for one year.
Chapter 2: What is the current status of the federal government shutdown?
Republicans call that a non-starter. Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota says the shutdown is causing Americans to lose trust in governments.
I think they see it in some of their local officials. I always tell my local mayors they are on the front line of trust right now because people have lost trust in a lot of what's going on on the national level. I'm well aware of that. And so I think the way you do this is you find that common ground on an individual basis.
Officials, meanwhile, are warning that more flights could end up being canceled if the shutdown persists into the Thanksgiving holiday, as NPR's Liz Baker reports that possibility is already causing some holiday travelers to reconsider their plans for the busiest travel days of the year.
Air travel is often stressful, especially around the holidays.
Aside from the logistics and the money involved, there are a lot of emotions involved in travel.
Aixa Diaz is a spokesperson for AAA, which releases a holiday travel forecast before big travel days like the day before Thanksgiving. She says this year has been tricky to predict given the uncertainty around the government shutdown. Because anything could happen and things change daily.
On Friday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy warned that by Thanksgiving, as many as 20% of flights could be impacted if the shutdown continues. Many more than have already been affected since the Federal Aviation Administration announced reduced flights to and from 40 major airports earlier this week. Liz Baker, NPR News.
Workers in Ukraine are trying to restore power in several regions after Russian drone attacks on energy infrastructure have caused blackouts this weekend. Residential areas were also hit, killing at least six people. The BBC's James Landale has more on that story from Kiev.
A lot of the targets were energy infrastructure. There's a clear attempt by Russia now to make living in Ukraine very, very hard. They want to make it very hard, particularly in the east, for people to get access to electricity and to get heating. And that's not just a question of trying to damage Ukrainian morale, but it's also trying to damage Ukraine's economy.
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Chapter 3: How is the government shutdown affecting holiday travel plans?
Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Saturday. Police in Indonesia are investigating whether revenge was a motive for a bombing Friday at a high school mosque in Jakarta. They say they found explosives and writings in the home of a 17-year-old suspect who had reportedly been bullied. The suspect was among 54 people who were injured by two explosions.
He's now recovering at a city hospital. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.