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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. A slim majority of the GOP-led Senate has voted to end President Trump's emergency terrorist program, but NPR's Claudia Grisalish reports that the Republican-led House is not expected to take up the effort. The series of three votes this week amounted to eight tests for Senate Republicans divided over the president's emergency tariffs in Brazil, Canada, and around the globe. Despite passage, the resolutions are not expected to get a vote in the House. Speaker Mike Johnson earlier this year installed a rules change to block resolutions challenging the president's tariffs authority from reaching the House floor. Even so, President Trump would veto the measure if it reached his desk. Earlier this week, Vice President J.D. Vance lobbied Republican senators to vote no, but a handful were not convinced.

Kentucky's Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, Maine, Susan Collins, and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski defected to vote with Democrats. Claude Rieselis, NPR News, the Capitol. Democrats are slamming the Trump administration for politicizing the military. As NPR's Quill-Lorrence reports, that includes excluding Democrats from briefings on lethal strikes against alleged drugboats. The Trump administration has labeled alleged narco-traffickers as illegal combatants. That's the legal justification for military strikes against more than a dozen small boats, killing more than 60 people without trial or presenting evidence.

But Senate Democrats say they have been excluded from a White House briefing on the issue, and House Democrats say the Pentagon abruptly pulled its lawyers from a classified briefing of the Armed Services Committee. The White House says Democrats are soft on narco-trafficking. Democrats say President Trump is using the military for politics, including making campaign-style partisan speeches on military bases, which conflicts with the U.S. military's centuries of a-policy. political tradition. Quill Lawrence NPR News. The leaders of several airlines are calling on Congress

to end the government shutdown. NPR's Joel Rose reports on the White House's meeting with top industry officers. Delta Airlines and United Airlines are urging Congress to reopen the government so that air traffic controllers and TSA officers can get paid. Vice President J.D. Vance spoke after meeting with aviation leaders at the White House. Everybody here is very worried that we're going to see more delays, more stresses on the people who are actually making the aviation system run. Staffing shortages of air traffic controllers have led to isolated delays with the latest at airports around Washington, D.C. and Dallas. But Vance warned that disruptions could become more dramatic as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches. Joel Rose and PR News, Washington. The Trump administration

says it'll allow only 7,500 refugees into the United States next year, and most of those people will be white South Africans. The administration is often cited widely debunk false rumors of white genocide in the... This is NPR. Britain's Buckingham Palace says King Charles has stripped his brother, Andrew, of his titles. Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, as he is now called, will also have to move away from his royal lodge and find a new private home. The move comes amid ongoing revelations about his relationship with late sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein,

and allegations that he raped now deceased Epstein victim, Virginia Jufre. The palace says the thoughts of King Charles and Queen Camilla are with the victims. For years, most researchers have believed there was just one kind of Tyrannosaur T-Rex, but new work suggests there were others. R.E. Daniel has more. The dueling dinosaurs fossil consists of two entangled skeletons, a triceratops and a small Tyrannosaur, beautifully preserved. Most researchers have believed the Tyrannosaur was a juvenile T-Rex. But as soon as we started actually studying this specimen, we realized there were a lot of red flags.

Lindsay Zano is head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The animal had larger hands and more teeth than T-Rex and was fully grown when it died. This was nanotaranis landcensis, a different Tyrannosaur species whose existence was long dismissed by most paleontologists. In other words, T-Rex has been dethroned. There were other Tyrannosaurs. For NPR News, I'm Marie Daniel. U.S. futures are higher in after-hours trading followings Thursday's losses on Wall Street, on Asia-Pacific markets, shares are mixed. This is NPR News.