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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The Supreme Court issued an order last night, allowing the Trump administration to block full-snap benefits for now. Empires-Amy held reports it's the latest legal turn upending the nation's largest anti-hunger program in the longest-ever government shutdown. More snap whiplash. Several states had already said they were distributing full benefits, including California, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, after a judge Thursday ordered the Trump administration to pay. But the high court's administrative stay means states must now revert back to partial payments, at least until an appeals court weighs in. Sylvia Lindsay in North Carolina

got half her benefits Friday. Not enough, she says, for her and her grandson, she supports who has autism. You're already down, and they want you to be even further down. It's just really sad and disappointing. One in eight Americans rely on the program, mostly very low-income families, seniors, or people with disabilities. Amy Held and PR News. The top Trump administration official overseeing federal statistical agencies is raising concerns about how well the government protects the data it collects from the public. And Paris Hansi Lo Wang reports on the multiple lawsuits the administration is facing claiming its violated data privacy protections. Mark Calabria started in July as the chief statistician at the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

Speaking at the Think Tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, Calabria said the federal government is falling short on keeping the data it collects from the public secure. I'm not convinced that we, the government, live up to those same standards on a daily basis that we expect of the private sector. And so part of my agenda is how do we get ourselves there where we can say that the federal government is first in class and protecting your data. OMB's press office did not respond to questions about what exactly is sparking collaborative is concerned. Multiple lawsuits claim the Trump administration violated the Privacy Act when it gave its Doge team members access to records at the IRS and other agencies. Hansi Luong and PR News. The UN says October was the deadliest month in 20 years for Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olives.

And here's Lauren Freyer has more. The UN says it recorded more than 260 Israeli settler attacks in October that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. That's an average of eight attacks per day, injuring at least 140 Palestinians and vandalizing some 4,200 trees. Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2003, more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN, and more than 9,000 have been detained, according to Palestinian officials. In the week ending November 3rd, six Palestinians were killed there, according to the UN, five, including two children by the Israeli military and one by a settler. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv. This is NPR News. The new national survey shows that polarization in the country is taking an emotional toll on Americans. A majority of those surveyed say societal divisions are stressing them out.

Impeer's Reto Chatterjee has more. The survey by the American Psychological Association finds that 62% of adults say that social and political divisions in the country are a major source of stress. And they were more likely to say they feel socially isolated than those who aren't as bothered. societal divisions. Psychologist Vale Wright with the American Psychological Association says stress and social isolation have long-term health consequences. Often those are manifested in both physical symptoms and emotional symptoms that can look like headaches, fatigue, stomach problems, as well as

increased levels of depression and anxiety. Read the Chatejee and PR News. The Danish government wants to ban social media for children under the age of 15. Officials say they want to protect them from the large amount of violence and self-harm that's present on online platforms. If this measure passes Parliament, it would be some of the most stringent teen social media restrictions in Europe. It isn't clear, though, what platforms would be affected or how it would be enforced. The move follows Austria, which enacted the world's first ban on social media for children under 16, including on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, which faced huge. huge fines for violating the rules. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from

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