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On this week's Books We've Loved, we're headed to the open range with morning editions Michelle Martin to break down Charles Portis's classic true grit. Find Books We've Loved in NPR's Book of the Day podcast feed on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwahili Saikautau. Two federal judges say the Trump administration must restrict. contingency funds for people who get food assistance through the SNAP program. That benefit is set to run out tomorrow because of the government shutdown. In Boston, Judge Endera-Talwani says the administration has until Monday to consider whether to pay at least partial benefits.

In Rhode Island, Judge John McCall barred the administration from stopping benefits. What's not clear is how his ruling relates to Tulwani's order. And Pierce Jennifer Ludden reports. The federal government usually sends SNAP funding to states well before the, first of the month because it takes days to distribute it onto people's debit-like cards. Now, there's an added complication. The Agriculture Department's contingency money falls short of full snap funding for November. The administration has said calculating partial payments would be a logistical nightmare that could take weeks. States and cities across the country

have been preparing for a lapse. They're ramping up donations to food banks, offering protections if people fall behind on their bills, even shifting their own budgets to pay. some amount of food aid to snap recipients temporarily. Jennifer Leibon and Peer News, Washington. It has now been three days since Hurricane Melissa, one of the Atlantic's most powerful category five storms on record tore through Jamaica, killing more than a dozen people. At least five of the country's 14 parishes, lost communication and power.

Cedia Brown waited in line for hours to get drinkable water. There is no water there. There is no light. You cannot make connections. There is no connection. No phone calls, no internet, your family, your loved ones cannot reach you. You cannot talk to them because there's no connection. Dave Salman says he isn't sure if everyone in his family survived. I feel very sad and it's a mixing motion. Mixing motions.

Because right now I'm stressing because I don't know where my brother is, some of my family members because the service and stuff is done. Flights carrying humanitarian aid have only just begun. to land in Jamaica. There's going to be a World Series game seven. The Los Angeles Dodgers just beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3 to 1. Steve Futterman is in Toronto with the latest. There will be a seventh and deciding game as the L.A. Dodgers hold on to beat the Toronto

Blue Jays 3 to 1 in game 6 to even the series at three games apiece. L.A. scored three runs in the third, the key blow, a two-run single by Mookie Betts. Toronto scored its only run in the bottom of the third after that neither team could score. Toronto did threaten in the bottom of the ninth, putting runners on second and third with nobody out but could not score. So the Dodgers win to force a game seven to decide the World Series. This is NPR News from New York. In Tanzania, where general elections that took place on Wednesday are being disputed, hundreds of people may have been killed. That's according to the country's opposition party.

The party spokeswoman Brenda Rupia told the New York Times that she urged the military to step in because people, quote, are dying. She added the government is announcing cooked results. The United Nations has called for an investigation into allegations of excessive force by securities on anti-government protesters. Initial reports suggested at least 10 people, had been killed post-election day. A wave of RSV, a common respiratory virus, is sweeping over the United States. It can cause pneumonia and severe inflammation in the lungs. The disease is hitting infants especially hard.

Scott Mossione from Member Station, WIPR, has more on the trend. RSV is now the leading cause of emergency room visits for infants, according to data from the Yale School for Public Health. About 1.2% of ER visits nationwide among those under one year old is due to the disease. That's three times more than a month earlier. RSV is particularly dangerous for babies, older adults, and people who are immunocompromised. It's responsible for as much as 300 deaths in children under the age of five in the U.S. each year and hospitalizes up to 80,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. RSV vaccines are recommended for infants, people in later pregnancy, those with the United States, those with

medical conditions and everyone over the age of 75. This is... We are now in spooky season. And on this week's episode of Books We've Loved, we discuss all things interview with the vampire, with NPR's Barry Hardiman. So turn down the lights, grab some garlic, and listen to Books We've Loved in NPR's Book of the Day podcast feed

on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.