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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. British police say 10 people were taken to the hospital after a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train. Nine of them have life-threatening injuries. authorities say it's been declared a major incident and that counterterrorism police are investigating. There's no word on a motive. Food banks say they're seeing an immediate uptake and demand, despite two judges' orders yesterday that the Trump administration provide funding for the SNAP food assistance program. From member station KQED in San Francisco, Dana Cronin has more.

Food banks here in the Bay Area are ramping up efforts in response to the hundreds of calls they say they've received so far from people seeking. relief. Caitlin Sly is the CEO of the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. She says it's unclear what happens next after the Trump administration was ordered to fund SNAP. Either way, we're looking at at least a week, probably more that the hungry in our community are going to go without food. Sly says her organization is opening additional distribution sites and deploying more food and personnel to meet the increased demand. For NPR News, I'm Dana Cronin in San Francisco. Open enrollments started today for health insurance on health care.gov, the ACA marketplace. And Pierre Salina Simmons-Duffin has more on what people enrolling this year need to know.

Their premiums might be significantly higher. And that is because something called enhanced subsidies that Congress first passed in 2021 are expiring. And that extra help to buy health insurance is something that millions of people have relied on in the last few years. In fact, 24 million people have these plants. They're small business owners, farmers, ranchers. And as open enrollment begins this year, the federal government is shut down. And these subsidies are a central issue. And Pierce Salina Simmons-Duffin reporting. Two new suspects were charged in the Louvre jewel heist today. And Pierce Eleanor Beersley reports, four people are in custody charged with stealing $100 million worth of royal jewels from the museum two weeks ago. The jewels haven't been

found. In a statement Saturday, the Paris prosecutor said two of the five people arrested Wednesday have been charged. One, charged with organized theft and criminal conspiracy, is thought to be part of the four-man commando team that carried out the heist. The other, a woman, has been charged with complicity in preparing the crime. Two men also thought to be a part of the commando unit and arrested a week ago have also been charged, all were caught using DNA and fingerprints from objects left behind at the scene of the crime. Quoting the findings of a report Friday, France's culture minister said there has been a chronic underestimation of the risk of intrusion and theft at the Louvre for the last 20 years. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. You're listening to

NPR News. Game 7 of the World Series is underway in Toronto between the Blue Jays and the L.A. Dodgers. The score at last check, 3-1 Blue Jays in the top of the 6th. New research suggests that genetic mutations play an important role in a form of brain damage that's associated with contact sports. And Pierce John Hamilton reports on a study in the journal Science. Researchers studied nerve cells from 19 people who died after experiencing repeated head injuries, soften from playing sports like football. Four of these people had healthy brains, 15 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a neurodegenerative disease often found in athletes. A genetic analysis of the nerve cells found a distinctive pattern of gene mutations in brains with CTE.

The pattern was not present in brains that appeared healthy despite exposure to head trauma. Researchers say the mutations associated with CTE are similar to those found in brain cells from people with Alzheimer's disease. Both conditions are marked by an accumulation of a protein called TAP. John Hamilton, NPR News. Daylight saving time ends tomorrow morning at 2 a.m. for most of the country, and we return to Eastern Standard Time. That means clocks should be set back one hour before you go to bed. The time change started more than 100 years ago to extend summer daylight hours, though the idea wasn't popular even then. Hawaii and most of Arizona and U.S. territories Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa,

the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the northern Mariana Islands don't observe. time change. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington. Support for NPR and the following message come from the Limelson Foundation, working to harness the power of invention and innovation to accelerate climate action and improve lives around the world. Learn more atlimson.org.