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You ever get to the pharmacy and you're expecting your medication to cost 20 bucks, but instead it's 200 or a thousand. And you're like, wait, really? Like, are you sure? Is there some kind of mistake? This week on the Life Kit podcast, what to do when your prescription costs way more than you expected. You can listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. As the holiday season begins to ramp up, airlines are starting to cancel hundreds of flights to meet a federal target of 10% fewer traffic at the nation's busiest airports. The fallout of a government shutdown.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says air traffic restrictions will happen gradually. It's going to be 4% today in regard to those 40 airports, and again, we're going to step ladder that up to get to 10% next week. The exact number I can't give you. And I don't want to see the disruption. I don't want to see the delays. As air traffic controllers go on five weeks working without pay, Duffy says the restrictions are the best way to keep air travel safe. Duffy addressed reporters at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C. were in January mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people.

The shutdown has forced a broad cross-section of federal workers. to go weeks without a paycheck. Some community organizations are stepping up from member station WAMU, Jackson-Sinberg, reports on how one school district in the Washington, D.C. area, is helping. Arlington is the first Virginia suburb you hit west out of D.C. and home to the Pentagon. It's a hotbed for federal employees. That's why the superintendent of Arlington Public Schools asked the district to come up with ideas to help families.

One solution, serve dinner at three schools while the shutdown lasts. Arlington Public Schools's Frank Belavia. When you think about communities, you think about the schools that are there. And these really are the backbones of the community. So us being here and doing this means nothing is nothing different. The school system plans to serve 250 meals at each school every weeknight for 30 days or until the shutdown ends. For NPR news, I'm Jackson Sindenberg in Washington, D.C. The first Friday of the month typically offers a comprehensive report on the performance of the nation's employment sector for the prior month.

Today, Labor Department has not released such a report. The government shutdown. President Trump says that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords. These normalized diplomatic ties between Israel and several Muslim countries during Trump's first term in office, but NPR's Frank Ordonez reports Kazakhstan already has full diplomatic relations with Israel. The president declared the move as a major step toward building bridges across the world. At a dinner with Central Asian leaders, including Kazakhstan, Trump posted that the administration is negotiating with other forms. leaders about joining. The Abraham Accords are very sought after right now. We're going to be announcing some very important countries that are joining. It's a largely symbolic move. The White

House described it as a signal that the Accords are alive and well in the second administration. Regional concerns over the war in Gaza has been a major impediment to attracting more signers to the agreement, including Saudi Arabia. That's Frank Ordonez. It's NPR News. The Trump administration struck two more deals with the pharmaceutical industry as part of its push to get lower drug prices for Americans. It was time they involve the popular and expensive obesity drugs made by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. Here's NPR, Sidney Lubkin. A lot of the stuff about the obesity drugs is unique to the administration's arrangements with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. That said, today's deals also included similar terms to deals with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, such as a three-year exemption from certain tariffs.

Leipkin reporting. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing allegations of mortgage fraud. The accusations are similar to the ones against New York Attorney General Letitia James in Virginia. Each is accused of claiming multiple homes as a primary residence on mortgage documents in an effort to secure more favorable interest rates. Lauren McGahey with the Texas Newsroom reports. Hunter Bonner is a lifelong Republican and chairman of the Marion County GOP, but he's also a critic of Paxton, who's running to unseat Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Bonner said he filed a federal complaint against Paxton, alleging the Attorney General committed mortgage fraud by claiming multiple homes as his primary residence.

The allegations are similar to those the Trump administration has leveled against prominent Democrats. Bonner hasn't heard back about the complaint and isn't optimistic that the administration will investigate. It is hypocritical in any sense of the word to give a pass to bad behavior. Paxton's campaign spokesman said the complaint is not serious. I'm Lauren McGahey in Austin, Texas. The NASDAQ is down more than 2%. The SMP has fallen 1.2%. This is NPR.

I'm Jesse Thorne. What advice did your guidance counselor give you? Jason Manzuchas remembers his. Nothing much. I feel like the guidance counselor told me what I feel like teachers had been telling me for a long time, which was essentially, why don't you try?

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