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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's latest request to pause SNAP food aid payments. It comes as the administration is appealing another court order requiring it to pay recipients' full November benefits. NPR's Gigi Dubin reports. SNAP recipients in several states from California to Wisconsin had just begun seeing money loaded up on their EBT cards to buy food. That's since a federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump. administration to restore those funds by Friday. But the future of that government aid remains uncertain for the tens of millions of Americans

who rely on it. The same day it said it would comply, the Trump administration appealed the ruling all the way up to the Supreme Court, which kicked the case back to an appeals court. It's unclear how states that have already begun paying out November benefits will handle the latest twist in the legal battle over SNAP. Gigi Duban, NPR News. FAA has begun reducing flights at airports by 10%. That move is in response to the federal government shutdown that's been going on for more than a month. Officials say more and more air traffic

controllers and TSA officers are calling out sick. They've been working without pay. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says travelers should still keep booking flights. The government can open back up. We could have controllers coming to work. And then you're going to be stock booking a week before you want to travel and you're going to pay way more money and you're going to be angry. So book it now. OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits in San Francisco and Los Angeles, each alleging that people have been harmed by interactions with ChatGPT. Some of them died by suicide.

Member Station KQED's Rachel Myro has more. The lawsuits against OpenAI allege assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and that the company knew ChatGPT was psychologically manipulative and dangerously sycophantic. Attorney Matthew Bergman leads the social media victims law center, one of two organizations bringing the lawsuits. When you have a machine that is designed to lure people into developing emotional relationships, that is inherently dangerous. An OpenAI spokesman wrote the company is reviewing the lawsuits and also that it works to train chat sheet BT to spot distress and steer users toward real world support. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Myro. San Francisco. Consumer's sentiment dropped to a three-year low in November that was led by pessimism in

both personal finances and anticipated business conditions. The survey was released on Friday by the University of Michigan. It showed the index at 50.5 percent, which was down almost 30 percent since last November when Joe Biden was still president. The group feeling the most confident is stock market investors who posted an 11 percent increase in sentiment. You're listening to NPR News. Officials from around the world are in Bay Lane, Brazil for the annual U.N. climate talks. The conference kicks off on Monday,

but representatives heard Friday from countries most affected by the changing world climate. Scientists say climate change is warming, the world's oceans, which leads to more damaging storms and those storms often hit lesser-developed nations. Trump administration official Kerry Lake is killing funding for the Hungarian language service of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.

As NPR's David Fulkenflik reports, the move came just as Hungary's Prime Minister met with President Trump at the White House on Friday. Carrie Lake says the U.S. Agency for Global Media will no longer serve populations of NATO allies. The Hungarian service broadcast between 1950 and 1993, it was relaunched during Trump's first term. Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty is a not-for-profit funded by the U.S. government. It serves audiences where there is not a robust and free press. Orbanus restricted press and other freedoms in Hungary, drawing Trump's praise. The law appears to set out that only the U.S.

agency's CEO can cancel subsidies to specific foreign language networks. Lake has taken on the title of acting CEO, but as NPR has previously reported, it's not clear she holds that position. There's been no announcement of Lake's appointment, nor does she appear to be eligible for it. David Fulkenflick, NPR News. A Supreme Court panel in Brazil has unanimously rejected former President Jaira Bolsonaro's appeal of his conviction for attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat. He was sentenced 27 years in prison. His legal team says the charges overlap and the length of his sentence should be reduced accordingly.

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