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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Today is the first day of the lapse in funding for the SNAP Food Assistance Program. Around 42 million Americans around the country rely on the program's food stamps. In Houston, more than 400,000 households will be affected. Houston Public Media's Sydney Jackson has more. With her two dogs Luna and McKito in tow, Itso Perez waited in her car for roughly three hours at a Houston Food Bank distribution site Saturday morning. Born with Spina Bifida, the stay-at-home wife got a call telling her that her benefits had been cut off. There are other people that cannot work or they have disabilities also, not just other people that they're receiving, but there's other people that are need in more, probably more in need that I am. Two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funding for SNAP,

but it's unclear when benefits could be resumed. For NPR news, I'm Sydney Jackson. The U.N. says the three latest bodies transferred from Gaza to Israel as part of a ceasefire agreement aren't those of any hostages. In Paris, Lauren Freyer has more from Tel Aviv. In the latest exchanges, the Red Cross says it transferred 30 bodies of deceased Palestinians from Israel into Gaza and three bodies in the other direction from Gaza into Israel. But the U.N. says forensics tests show that those three are not the bodies of any of the 11 deceased hostages believed to run. remain in Gaza. It's unclear whose remains they are. But Gaza's destruction is vast and health officials there have struggled to identify bodies without access to DNA kits. Hamas's armed

wing says that in an effort not to obstruct the process, it proposed handing over samples of these three, but that Israel refused so it handed over the full unidentified bodies. Lauren Freyer and PR News Tel Aviv. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has canceled a key contract. It relies on to monitor for tsunamis in Alaska and alert at-risk communities. The move could mean less timely and accurate warnings. Avery Elfelt from Alaska Public Media has more. Noah for years has paid Alaska's earthquake monitoring center to collect data from seismology stations across the state and feed the information back to the agency. If the data indicates an earthquake could lead to a tsunami, the government sends out a warning message in minutes. But that's about to change. NOAA has canceled that contract due to insufficient funds, says Mike West, the Alaska State seismologist. We are anticipating direct data feeds to stop in mid-November.

The loss of that data could result in less precise and less timely information. West says that could have major implications for tsunami-prone communities across the Pacific. Noah declined to comment for this story. For NPR News, I'm Avery Elfeld in Haynes, Alaska. And you're listening to NPR News. from Washington. The 2025 baseball season comes down to one final game

tonight in Toronto. The Toronto Blue Jays face off against the defending champs, the L.A. Dodgers, in game seven of the World Series, Steve Utterman has more from Toronto. Almost everywhere you look here in downtown Toronto, there are Blue Jays signs, Blue J. logos, and people wearing team jerseys and hats.

Toronto came close to staging a ninth inning come back in game six last night. The Blue Jays put the tying runs on second and third with nobody out, but the Dodgers held on. Toronto manager John Schneider, sounding like a fan, says he can't wait for the ultimate baseball game. It's going to be fun. It's going to be three or four or five hours of mayhem and great baseball. Pitching for Toronto will be future Hall of Famer, 41-year-old Max Scherzer. He pitched in the last World Series Game 7 in 2019 for the Washington Nationals. For NPR News, I'm Steve Fuderman at the World Series in Toronto. After some 20 years, the Grand Egyptian Museum is officially open. It's the world's largest

museum dedicated to its ancient civilization. It's an effort aimed at boosting the country's tourism industry and troubled economy. Located near the Giza Pyramids on the edge of the Egyptian capital, the museum showcases more than 50,000 artifacts, including the complete collection of King Tuts' treasures. It's a project champion by the president of Dalfa Aalisi, and it faced delays since construction started in 2005. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington.