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Hey, it's Ray Malliati from Car Talk. Did you miss me? Yeah, I didn't think so. But I missed you, and now I'm taking some calls again from listeners. Of course, the answers are still going to be wrong, but it's fun to talk to you all again. If you want to hear these calls and other new bonus episodes and support NPR, sign up for CarTalk Plus. Just go to plus.npr.npr.org. Thanks. Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, a massive Category 5 hurricane continues to to strengthen before it is expected to slam into Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa's top sustained winds are 185 miles per hour. And Pierre's Ader-Peralta reports the storm's effects are already being felt on the

island. National Hurricane Center warns the damage in Jamaica will be catastrophic. A hurricane hunter aircraft found its central pressure drop, the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm, which makes Hurricane Melissa extraordinary. Meteorologists say only six other Atlantic hurricanes have been this strong when measured by pressure. The only comparison in Jamaican history is Hurricane Gilbert, which made landfall as a category four in 1988. The Jamaican government says three people have already been killed in preparation for this storm. They were killed in accidents involving tree trimmings. Eidapralta, NPR News, Mexico City. Japan's first female prime minister met with President Trump today in Tokyo. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that Sinai Takaichi worked

to build rapport with Trump and to manage pressures coming from Washington. Prime Minister Takeichi played up her role as protege of the late ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe and entertained Trump, much as Abe did during Trump's first term. She gifted him one of Abe's golf putters, served him American beef and rice, and said she'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. The two governments issued a list of prospective investments that could be part of the $550 billion in investments. Japan promised in exchange for lower U.S. tariffs. President Trump's next and last leg of his journey will take him to South Korea

for a regional economic summit and expected bilateral meetings with the leaders of China and South Korea. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul. NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are pitted against each other in court today over who should operate a satellite system for American public radio stations. NPR's David Fulkenflik reports it is a sign. of how frayed relations became, as President Trump pressured the CPB, not to send money to NPR. A note, David's reporting, is independent of NPR's corporate or news leadership. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting funneled federal subsidies to public media for more than a half century

until Republican leaders in Congress and President Trump successfully pulled back all such funds this summer. NPR's legal team is presenting evidence in court that back in the spring, the corporation reneged on plans for a separate contract for the satellite system to curry favor with administration officials. The radio network alleges that CPB's decision made in a futile effort to save itself violated NPR's free speech rights. CPB says it gave the contract to a consortium of major stations who would better serve the public radio system. David Fulkenflick, NPR News. The federal government shutdown is nearly a month old. Congress still cannot agree on a spending measure that would end it. This is NPR.

The Republican-run House Oversight Committee has asked the Justice Department to review President Biden's executive actions. The committee alleges Biden may not have been aware of pardons and commutations signed by Autopenn in his name. Biden has pushed back against the allegations, he said in a statement last June, any suggestion he did not make these decisions during his presidency is false. Universities across the country have closed academic programs. with China. This follows pressure from a House committee report that said those programs threaten U.S. national security. From member station KJZZ, Michelle Muritzko, reports that includes two colleges in Arizona. Republican Congressman Eli Krain says Northern Arizona

University ended its dual degree electrical engineering partnership program with Chongqing University in China after it appeared in a report co-authored by the Select Committee on the strategic competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Commonwealth. party. The University of Arizona shuttered four tech microcampuses in China after the committee noted its partnership, spokesman Mitch Zach. We've communicated directly with those affected and are working with enrolled students to help them continue their education. The report states UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and at least six others have all shut down our Chinese partnership programs, but has said more than 50 others continue them. For NPR News, I'm Mitchell-Marie

School and Flagstaff. The Federal Reserve opens its two-day policy meeting today in Washington, policy makers are widely expected to cut interest rates by as much as a quarter of a percentage point. This is NPR.