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On the ThruLine podcast from NPR, how survivors of the Bosnian genocide got their day in court. How do you even go about finding thousands of victims and establishing who they were and what happened to them? Listen to ThruLine in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Two judges today said it's unlawful for the Trump administration to suspend SNAP food benefits tomorrow. But NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports it's not clear when that assistance may reach the millions of people who rely on it. A federal judge in Boston said the administration not only can but must use contingency funds to keep SNAP going. She said it could also shift other money but left it up to the administration to decide whether to do so.

The contingency funds fall short of SNAP's November budget, so the Trump administration may decide to issue only partial payments. It has warned that would be logistically challenging and time-consuming. The administration has until Monday to decide on a plan. States and cities across the country are shifting their own money and stepping up food donations to help millions of low-income people get by despite this loss of food aid. Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington. Democratic Senator John Ossif of Georgia is raising concerns about allegations of medical neglect and the lack of adequate food and water at immigration detention centers. Emily Wu Pearson of Member Station W.A.B.E. in Atlanta has more.

Osef says his office has investigated more than 500 credible complaints alleging human rights abuses on immigration facilities across the country. A new report outlines delayed or denied medical care and inadequate rotten or delayed meals and water, worsening the health conditions of detainees. Earlier this year, Aesuff released the first part of the investigation with reports of pregnant immigrants in detention facing medical neglect. The Department of Homeland Security said that report contained false allegations. For NPR News, I'm Emily Wu Pearson in Atlanta.

A bipartisan panel voted unanimously to pass a new map in Ohio today. The state will now avoid a lengthier fight over the required redrawing of boundaries for its 15 members of Congress. Ohio Public Media's Sarah Donaldson has more. Ohio's new map moves Cincinnati and Toledo's districts in Congress further right, but Akron inches left. And it makes some already Republican-friendly districts even friendlier. But Democratic Representative Dunny Isaacson of Cincinnati says it staved off a worst-case map for the minority party. They tried to steal districts here like they were doing in Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri, and today we prevented that from happening.

He and the other Democratic lawmakers who voted for the map shut the door on any effort to repeal it. Still, both sides are facing blowback for the deal since at least one of those now Republican seats could swing the other way. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Donaldson in Columbus. Meanwhile, Virginia's Democratic-led General Assembly today advanced a constitutional amendment that could allow redistricting ahead of the midterm elections. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The world's most extravagant toilet is going under the hammer. In Pierce, Chloe Veldman reports Sotheby's plans to auction Italian artist Mauricio Cattelan's America.

It's a fully functional lab, a toilet rather, made out of more than 100 kilograms of solid gold. That auction takes place on November 18th. Catalan's 18-carat gold toilet is as eye-popping as it is infamous. The Guggenheim in New York encouraged visitors to use the artwork as a regular toilet when it was installed at the museum in 2016. A hundred thousand people lined up to do just that. Three years later, it was stolen while on show at Blenheim Palace in England. The artwork has never been recovered. In an unusual move for an auction house, Sotheby says the starting bid for the only other existing version of America

will be determined by the price of the artwork's weight in gold. It will rise and fall with the gold market. until the hammer falls. At today's rate, that's a flush $10 million. Chloe Veltman, NPR News. Game 6 of the World Series is taking place in Toronto right now between the Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Blue Jays could clinch the title tonight because they lead the series three games to two and only need one more to win. The score at last check, three to zero Dodgers in the bottom of the third. The Dodgers are the

winning World Series champs, and if they want a repeat, they will have to win the next two games in Toronto. I'm Janine Hurst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on Consider This, Unpacking some wild economic trends. Families are having fewer kids, how that will ripple in the global economy, plus the rise of private credit markets and the hidden risk they pose, and we're breaking down the rise in health care costs tied to the government. shutdown. Listen every afternoon to consider this on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.