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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stephens. President Trump has signed a stopgap bill to reopen the government hours after the Measure 1 final passage in the U.S. House. NPR's Sam Greenglass has more.
After 43 days, the federal government is on track to reopen for the first time since September 30th. The record-long shutdown has resulted in federal employees going without pay, airport delays, and pauses to food assistance.
What recent government action did President Trump take regarding the shutdown?
The package, passed Monday by the Senate, will temporarily fund most of the government through January and some specific agencies through next September. It also includes a provision that would ensure federal employees get back pay and rehire those who were laid off during the shutdown. Most House Democrats voted against the measure because it does not extend the expiring health insurance subsidies they have been pushing to preserve. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he will hold a vote to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies in December. Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva has finally been seated as the newest member of the U.S. House. Grijalva's first official act was signing a bipartisan petition demanding the release of government files on Jeffrey Epstein. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports.
Congresswoman Grijalva provided the final signature needed to force a December vote to release the files tied to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
Just this morning, House Democrats released more emails showing that Trump knew more about Epstein's abuses than he previously acknowledged.
Four Republicans joined House Democrats weeks ago to sign on to the petition, which has been led by Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey and House Democrat Ro Khanna. Now, President Trump is working to flip one or more of those Republicans to prevent the release from happening. Claudia Gonzalez, NPR News.
The Food and Drug Administration is creating a new way for approving cutting-edge treatments for for rare diseases. NPR's Rob Stein explains.
In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, two top FDA officials describe what they call a new, quote, plausible mechanism pathway for approving treatments. Instead of requiring complicated and expensive studies testing an experimental treatment on patients, the FDA says some therapies could be approved based on other criteria that could include evidence that the treatment can help patients by fixing the underlying cause of the disease, like a genetic defect. The approach is aimed at making it more practical to use cutting-edge technologies like gene editing to treat patients suffering from rare diseases. Rob Stein, NPR News.
US futures are lower in after-hours trading. This is NPR News. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will hold a vote on a resolution to release government files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a 2011 email, Epstein tells his confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell, that Trump spent hours with the sex trafficking victim. In another email sent to a journalist in 2019, Epstein says... that Trump, quote, knew about the girls, but it's not clear what he meant. The White House is accusing Democrats of leaking selective emails to smear the president. The northern lights may be visible over much of the U.S. tonight and possibly as far south as Alabama. NPR's now-Greenfield Boys reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an alert for a severe geomagnetic storm.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has been tracking the impact of an eruption of solar material and magnetic fields. It's the kind of space weather that can potentially mess with electrical grids or satellites. But fans of the aurora borealis are hoping for a repeat of Tuesday night when sky watchers saw ghostly reds and greens as far south as Texas and Florida. If you want to try to catch them, go to a dark spot, and a digital camera can be more sensitive to light than your naked eye, so you might want to try snapping some images of the sky.
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