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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder. The frontrunner for mayor of New York City, Democrats are on Mom Dani, is responding to President Trump's support for former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's run for the mayor's office, saying Trump used Cuomo as his best option. We know and have known for months that Donald Trump would favor Andrew Cuomo as the mayor. they share the same donors, they share the same small vision, they share the same sense of impunity. Mom Doni, speaking at a campaign stop in Queens Monday night earlier in the day, Trump repeated his threat to withhold federal money if Mondani wins Tuesday's election. Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will also be casting ballots Tuesday in their state's contested races for governor. In California, voters will decide on a ballot measure to redraw the

state's congressional districts to counter Trump initiated redistricting in states including Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina aimed at benefiting Republicans. The Red Cross says it facilitated another exchange of bodies across the Israel-Ghasa border as part of that U.S. brokered cease fire. NPR's Lauren Freyer reports from Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In the latest exchange, Israel returned to Gaza the bodies of 45 Palestinians. A day after Hamas handed over those of three Israeli soldiers. The Israeli Prime Minister's office says all three were killed on October 7, 2003, then carried into Gaza. In a statement, the mother of soldier Omer Nutra, a dual U.S. Israeli citizen, said the return of his body marks the end of her family's

long night. Gaza's health ministry says only about a third of the Palestinian bodies returned in this ceasefire have been identified because of a lack of DNA kits. So the ministry has been posting photos of human remains online so that families might identify them. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Romola, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Tylenol and Kleenex could soon be in the same corporate shopping basket, as NPR Scott Horsley reports on that proposed merger that would combine two big consumer products companies. Kleenex maker Kimberly Clark is offering to buy Tylenol's parent company

in a deal valued at nearly $49 billion. Thailand-all maker Kenvue also sells Band-Aids and the company could use one. Its stock has suffered in recent weeks after unfounded claims from President Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about the pain reliever's safety. Kenview was spun off from the giant health conglomerate Johnson and Johnson two years ago.

Scott Horsley and Pair News, Washington. Trump administration says it will restart SNAP food benefits after two federal judges ruled last week that freezing payments is unlawful. The White House says it will use money from a contingency son for SNAP payments, but the payout will only be be half the amount people normally receive. This is NPR News. With the government shutdown closing in on the record for the longest in U.S. history, flight delays are persistent at airports around

the country. Air traffic controllers are required to work without pay until the shutdown ends, but there have been staffing shortages at dozens of facilities. OpenAI and Amazon's cloud computing business have forged a $38 billion strategic partnership, its latest moved by OpenA.I. to get more computing power for its artificial intelligence, large language models. Sam Pierce-John Rowich reports. Amazon Web Services says OpenAI, which is the parent company of the popular chat-GPT chatbot, will start using its infrastructure immediately. That gives open AI access to hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art GPU chips for AI workloads, and it says it could expand further in 2027 and beyond. The CEO of AWS says its infrastructure will serve as a backbone for

AI's AI ambitions. The agreement is the latest in a string of recent deals worth billions between Open AI and computing infrastructure companies. Open AI is trying to lock in computing power for the future and consolidate its position as a leader in AI. The news sent Amazon's share price up more than 4%. Amazon is a financial supporter of NPR. John Rewitch, NPR News. The financial markets in Asia are lower in Tuesday trading. Japan's benchmark NICA dipped 1.7 percent and shares in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, and Seoul declined. On Monday, gains for Nvidia, Amazon, and other tech companies propped up share prices, the S&P 500 rose 2 tenths of a percent. This is NPR News.