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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The record 41-day government shutdown is not over yet, but Senate passage tonight of a short-term funding bill broke a stalemate that has lasted more than six weeks. Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
This has been a very long road, quite literally the longest shutdown in history.
What updates are there on the government shutdown situation?
I am very, very happy to be able to say that we are coming to the end.
Senator Thune speaking on the floor after the Senate voted 60 to 40 to approve a deal a small group of Democrats and one independent made with Republicans. The House must also pass the legislation before it's sent to President Trump's desk. House Speaker Mike Johnson urging lawmakers to return to Washington, saying the House must vote as quickly as possible. When the House returns to Capitol Hill, Adelita Grijalva is expected to be sworn in more than a month after she was elected to represent her Arizona district. She's expected to give the final signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. The government may be on the cusp of reopening, but millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance remain in limbo.
As the Trump administration appeals, a federal judge is ruling to fully fund SNAP payments this month. Nick Dela Canal of member station WFAE reports that food assistance organizations are feeling the strain.
Have a great day, ma'am. Thank you so much.
A line of cars wraps around the block at a food share in Charlotte for people who receive SNAP benefits. Some here say they received partial payments on Friday, but it wasn't much. One man said he received $16 when he usually receives about $100. Others, like Michelle Sands, still have empty accounts.
I keep looking online and looking at it. I even called my card and it still ain't saying nothing.
The uncertainty comes as food banks are preparing for Thanksgiving, normally their busiest time of year. And they say every day the shutdown continues makes their own holiday outlook more uncertain. For NPR News, I'm Nick Della Canal in Charlotte.
The Supreme Court has declined to revisit a landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage. From member station WKYU, Lisa Autry reports.
A same-sex couple sued former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds. She appealed the $360,000 jury verdict, arguing protection under the First Amendment. Chris Hartman leads the Louisville-based Fairness Campaign. He fears the 2015 ruling could still be revisited.
The reality is that Kim Davis's case was never the one that was going to make it to the Supreme Court. All of the experts agreed that this was the weakest possible challenge to marriage equality in the U.S.
The Conservative Liberty Council, which represents Davis, says by declining to hear the case, the court leaves the quote, wrongly decided 2015 opinion in place. For NPR News, I'm Lisa Autry in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
This is NPR News. A judge in West Virginia is allowing the continued deployment to Washington, D.C. of more than 300 state National Guard troops. The judge ruling Monday that Governor Patrick Morrissey was within his authority to deploy the Guard in response to President Trump's executive order declaring a crime emergency in the nation's capital. The Justice Department, however, says violent crime in the district is at a 30-year low. After nearly 30 years, Canada has lost its measles-free status. International health experts say Canada is no longer free of the disease because of ongoing outbreaks. Canada has logged more than 5,100 cases this year, and Canada says it will work to increase vaccinations.
The novel Flesh by David Solloy has won this year's Booker Prize, which goes to the best English language book published in the UK. The judges said they'd never read anything quite like it, as NPR's Andrew Limbaugh reports.
The novel follows a Hungarian man named István from his teen years through old age. He's quiet, not the most emotive character, but that's all covering up a tumultuous life. The Booker Prize judges praised author David Soloy's sparse use of language.
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