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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The FAA says as staffing shortages increase across the system, it will start slowing down air traffic at airports nationwide to ensure safe operations as the government shutdown continues. Marlon Hyde from member station WABE reports, flight capacity will be reduced by 10% in phases at 40 major airports, including Chicago, Washington, and Atlanta starting tomorrow. Inside Hartsfield-Jackson-Atlanta International Airport, Ellen Silva just arrived from Baltimore. She's staying until Tuesday.

Silva is a professional pet sitter and is concerned that her job might be affected if her return flight is altered by the flight reductions. I would miss work and I'd have some very unhappy people that I work for because they depend on me so they can travel. And if I'm not there, they can't leave. Airlines encourage customers to check their flight status before heading to the airport. Frontier and Delta Airlines expect flights will. go as planned. Customers whose flights are canceled or delayed can rebook or request a refund online. For NPR News, I'm Marlon Hyde in Atlanta. President Trump is taking steps to lower the cost of obesity drugs.

NPR's Franco-Ordonia's reports, Trump announced a deal with two pharmaceutical companies that would allow some people to get drugs like OZMPIC for as little as $149 a month. Speaking from the Oval Office, President Trump announced the deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk for their GLP-1 drugs that treat diabetes and obesity. These are two companies that behind the groundbreaking weight loss drugs that have helped millions of Americans struggling with obesity, live better, longer lives, everything else. These are the two companies that really broke ground.

The deal includes coverage by Medicare and Medicaid, which could mean new customers for the companies, and the administration says about 10% of Medicare enrollees will be eligible. The drugs will also be available to purchase online in a direct-to-consumer marketplace that the Trump administration plans to launch called Trump RX. Franco Ordonez. In PR News, the White House. There's some ominous news about the job market today. And Pierre Scott Horsley reports a firm that keeps tabs on pink slips says layoff notices jumped sharply last month. It was the worst October for layoff announcements in more than

two decades. That's according to a monthly tally kept by Challenger Gray in Christmas. which helps companies manage job cuts. U.S. employers announced plans to cut more than 150,000 jobs in October. Tech companies and warehousing firms saw some of the biggest downsizing. Reports like challengers are getting extra scrutiny these days because official government reports on the job market have been suspended by the federal shutdown. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. All Street Lower at the close, the Dowdown 397 points,

the NASDAQ down 445, SMP500 down 75. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Supreme Court says President Trump can proceed with blocking transgender and non-binary people from choosing their sex marking on passports and require them to list their sex as their gender at birth. This overturns a lower court order pausing Trump's policy and allowing applicants to choose how to identify, M for male, F for female, or X for neither. For 30 years, the government has allowed citizens to choose the state. their apparent gender instead of the one listed on their birth certificate. But the addition of

X only started in 2021. 2021 is on track to be the second or third hottest year ever recorded. That's the finding from the world meteorological organization's annual climate review. That comes just before countries gather for international climate negotiations in Brazil. And Perez Alejandra Burunda has more. WMO says the planet is about 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter than it was during the pre-industrial era. all that planetary heating means it's almost more surprising when a year doesn't come with the tagline, the hottest year ever. So it doesn't look like 2025 will end up with that superlative. That's probably due to natural cycles and Earth's weather systems that dragged global temperatures down

slightly this year. But overall, the pattern of global warming is clear. That's according to WMO, Deputy Secretary General Cobert. Each fraction of a degree matters for communities facing floods, droughts and heat extremes. The report comes as the United Nations Annual Climate Summit starts next week. No high-level officials from the United States will attend the meeting. Alejandro Burunda, NPR News. This is NPR News.