Chapter 1: What is the Supreme Court's decision regarding SNAP benefits?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Supreme Court is extending its hold, allowing the Trump administration to not pay full SNAP food benefits through Thursday. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the move appears aimed to allow time for negotiations to end the federal shutdown, which would render the issue moot.
The Trump administration had asked the high court to block full food benefits after a lower court judge ordered them. The extended stay means states can still make only partial payments. The legal wrangling over the country's largest anti-hunger program has kept millions of people who rely on it in limbo.
That could change soon as Congress votes on a deal to end the shutdown, which includes SNAP funding until next fall. Restoring that will be a relief not only to recipients, but also the retail stores where they spend their SNAP dollars, and food pantries, which have struggled to meet a surge in demand.
Chapter 2: How are Democrats responding to the federal shutdown deal?
Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.
Some Democrats are criticizing the shutdown deal for not delivering on their key demand, the renewal of expiring health care subsidies. NPR's Deirdre Walsh talked with one of the Democratic negotiators, New Hampshire Senator Jeanine Shaheen.
Chapter 3: What impact will the proposed hemp ban have on businesses?
who says Republicans promised to consider the issue.
They got a commitment for a Senate vote by mid-December on a bill that they will write. Shaheen said she negotiated that directly with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. But there's no guarantee, even if the Senate could pass something, that the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, would put that on the House floor.
Chapter 4: How is AI technology affecting video content creation?
But Shaheen says the White House was part of these discussions, and she pointed out that people in red states rely on these tax credits more than people in blue states.
NPR's Deirdre Walsh reporting, the short-term spending bill also includes language that would ban drugs derived from hemp. From member station KBIA, Harshon Ratanpal has more on how that will impact the hemp businesses.
The bill would limit hemp products to just 0.4 milligrams of THC, the chemical in cannabis that gets people high. Hemp-derived drugs have been legal since the 2018 Farm Bill, which allowed growing cannabis for industrial purposes.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the U.S. absence at climate negotiations?
Missouri farmer Brian Regal sells hemp-derived products, including gummies and drinks. He says the ban would bankrupt his company's.
is it kills the small market. It kills the farmer. It takes everything away from innovation. And I thought that's what the Republican Party stood for. And I was misinformed.
Republican Senator Rand Paul tried to get the hemp ban stricken from the bill, but almost all of his GOP colleagues voted to keep it. For NPR News, I'm Harshon Ratanpal in Columbia, Missouri.
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is calling for OpenAI to withdraw its Sora 2 video generating feature.
Chapter 6: What recent legal case involved a small-town newspaper and police raid?
They say the program is a threat to democracy and safety. AI-generated videos made on the app have flooded onto other social media platforms like TikTok, X, Instagram, and Facebook. This is NPR News from Washington. Thailand is threatening to suspend a ceasefire with Cambodia. It comes after a landmine explosion injured four Thai soldiers. Cambodia says the ordinance was from a previous conflict.
The two countries signed a truce last month after deadly clashes in July, but tensions have remained. The U.S. did not send an official delegation to the annual climate negotiations in Brazil, but the U.S. isn't totally absent, as NPR's Alejandra Barunda reports.
Mayors and governors from across the country are attending the meeting, known as COP30, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, who said the Trump administration has retreated from many of the country's climate goals. But that position doesn't represent the whole country. I'm here because I don't want the United States of America to be a footnote at this conference.
He says there are many states and cities still prioritizing climate. California is a stable and reliable partner in low-carbon green growth and will remain a stable and reliable partner in low-carbon green growth. That message was echoed at another COP30 event with New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and representatives from cities like Savannah, Georgia. Alejandra Boruna, NPR News.
Marion County, Kansas, has agreed to pay a small-town newspaper over $3 million and apologize over a police raid on the paper in 2023. The Marion County Records publisher sued the county after the raid in the town of 1,900 people. A blue diamond weighing more than 9.5 carats is sold for roughly $26 million at an auction in Switzerland.
It's named Melon Blue after the late American arts patron Rachel Bunny Mellon. This is NPR News.
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