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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwa Lisa Kautel. President Trump says he has directed government lawyers to find a way to pay snap food assistance benefits, which are set to expire today due to government shutdown. Trump made the announcement in a social media post after a pair of federal court decisions ruled the Trump administration must keep the benefits flowing. NPR Sam Greenglass reports. Ahead of a Halloween party here at Mar-a-Lago, Trump wrote on his true social platform, quote, if we are given the appropriate legal direction by the court, it will be

my honor to provide the funding. The Trump administration has repurposed other funds to prevent U.S. troops and some federal law enforcement from missing paychecks, but he said the administration would not use contingency funds for SNAP, a program 42 million Americans rely on. Even with Friday's court rulings ordering the funds to flow, it is unclear when that will happen. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, West Palm Beach, Florida. Georgia Democratic Senator John Ossuff is raising concerns about allegations of medical neglect at immigration detention centers. Emily Wu Pearson of member station WABE reports. Ossif says his office has investigated more than 500 credible complaints alleging human rights

abuses at 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, Ossuff 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. The International Red Cross says more than 77% of Jamaica's population remains without power

days after Hurricane Melissa charged through Jamaica. Cedia Brown said she has clean water and no power. No phone calls, no internet, your family, your loved ones cannot reach you. You cannot talk to them because there's no connection. Dave Salmon says he isn't sure if everyone in his family survived. I feel very sad and it's a mixing motion, mixing emotions. 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. In Michigan, little has been released publicly about arrests made in the city of Dearborn and Inkster, possibly connected to FBI operations that took place their early Friday. FBI director Cash Patel wrote on the ex-platform that the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple suspects who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend. You are listening to NPR News from New York City. Tanzania has a new president, Samia Salih Tulu Hassan.

The country's electoral commission says the 65-year-old won 98% of the vote. This as violent unrest has led to an unknown number of deaths and a nationwide internet shutdown since Wednesday's general election. Virginia's legislature took a step closer to joining the redistricting. trend on Friday. As VPM news, Jod Khalil reports, it would need to be affirmed again next year. Virginia Senate advanced a constitutional amendment to allow it to redistrict between censuses. The state house did the same Wednesday. Virginia's constitution currently gives redistricting power to a bipartisan commission. So, Virginia Democrats hurriedly convened a session to propose an amendment this week.

It had to be now, since the state constitution requires that a constitutional amendment be proposed twice, before and after an election. Virginia elects its House of Delegates and Governor Tuesday. Virginia is one of a few states where Democrats control the legislature to push back against President Trump's redistricting push. For NPR News, I'm Jad Khalil in Richmond. 6-7. That's the 2025 word of the year, according to Dictionary.com. The set of numbers is a slang term made popular by Generation Alpha. Lexicographers data dived across social media. examining search engine results, headlines, conversations, online and off, and concluded that six, seven, made its dramatic rise this past summer,

and by June, searches increased sixfold. This is NPR News.