Chapter 1: What recent Supreme Court decision was announced regarding same-sex marriage?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an order this morning. It has rejected a call to review its prior decision legalizing same-sex marriage. A county clerk from Kentucky, once jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the high court to reconsider its decision. It has refused.
President Trump has issued a Sweden pardon of his allies related to the 2020 presidential election and the effort to falsely claim Trump won. The pardon names numerous Trump campaign attorneys and people who met five years ago when they tried to create alternate electoral slates. NPR's Miles Parks reports.
The document pardons all those associated with a plot to make false electoral slates that could have potentially interfered with the presidential certification on January 6th, 2021.
It names Trump campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesbrough, Mark Meadows and John Eastman, as well as dozens of other people who met often in secret to sign documents claiming they were legitimate electors in states actually won by Joe Biden. The pardons are essentially symbolic, as none of the people pardoned have been charged with federal crimes.
Some are charged in their individual states, but the pardon has no impact on those cases. Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington.
An independent senator and a group of Democratic senators broke ranks to vote with Republicans yesterday on spending legislation. This would take steps to reopen the federal government. One Democrat who voted with Republicans is Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. She says the group got a promise from the Senate Majority Leader in exchange for their support.
She says Republicans are supposed to take up the issue of much higher health care premiums Americans will pay for Affordable Care Act policies next year.
We will find out. Part of the agreement that we entered into, and you heard it, was Leader Thune said he would come to the table on a health care policy. once the government was open, and now he's got to follow through.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of President Trump's recent pardons related to the 2020 election?
He gave us a December date, and now they've got to follow through. And the American public will see where, at the end of the day, Republicans lie.
She spoke to NPR's Morning Edition. Stocks opened higher this morning on hopes that an end could be in sight for the government shutdown. NPR's Scott Horsley has more.
Markets would welcome a resolution to the shutdown, which has idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers, held up funding for vital safety net programs, and disrupted air travel. The shutdowns also delayed the release of closely watched economic data, including a jobs report that was due last Friday. and an inflation update that was supposed to come out this week.
Stock in Tyson Foods opened higher after the meatpacking giant issued a bullish sales forecast for the coming year. Tyson's chicken sales were up during the most recent quarter. The company sold fewer pounds of beef, but made up for it with higher prices. And the company behind Buy Heart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula is recalling two lots after more than a dozen cases of infant botulism.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR. A super typhoon that hit the Philippines over the weekend has left at least two people dead. More than a million others evacuated their homes ahead of the storm. As Michael Sullivan reports, this latest storm follows a deadly typhoon that hit the Philippines last week.
Fung Wong came ashore in northeastern Aurora Province with sustained winds of up to 115 miles per hour and gusts of more than 140 miles per hour. It set off floods and landslides and knocked out power to entire provinces, even as the country dealt with the devastation left by Typhoon Kalmagi, which struck the country on Tuesday, leaving at least 224 dead.
At least five more people were killed after Kalmagi cleared the Philippines and slammed into an already storm-battered Vietnam. Fenghuang weakened as it traveled across the northern Philippines overnight before blowing into the South China Sea. It's forecast to head to the northwest towards Taiwan. For NPR News, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai.
President Trump is scheduled to welcome Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Shara, to the White House today. They're expected to formalize their agreement, bringing Syria into a coalition that battles Islamic State militants. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from a French prison today.
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