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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. A court ruling ordering the Trump administration to fully fund payments for the SNAP Food Assistance Program has been temporarily halted. The Supreme Court Friday night put the ruling on hold until an appeals court has a chance to rule on that order. The payments have been delayed because of the government shutdown. Several states, though, have already started paying benefits. Some of those states are using state funds for the food program. Pressure on food banks increased after the Trump administration ended the stamp benefits. This coincides with local farm contracts, ending for some food banks.

For member station K-A-ZU, Elena Neal Sachs has our reports. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ended a popular program that gave food banks money to buy fresh local produce. Sam Thorpe co-owns the farm's spade and plow in Morgan Hill, California, where weekly food deliveries to a local food bank are about to stop. He says the timing is bad for everyone involved, his farm, the smaller producers he works with, and people who rely on the food bank. The lost revenue might force Thorpe to reduce worker hours, which could mean less food growing in the ground. That might mean not necessarily like rotting vegetables in the field, but it could mean things that never even got to that point. The pause on SNAP benefits has also meant fewer sales at farmers markets that accept them. For NPR News, I'm Elena Neal Sachs.

death toll from Tuesday's UPS cargo plane crash has gone up. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg says an additional body was found at the scene of the crash at Louisville's Muhammad Ali International Airports. That brings a total number of known victims to 14. We pray for each of the victims' families and pray that no additional victims are lost. Both UPS and FedEx, meanwhile, are grounding their fleets of McDonald-Douglas MD-11 aircraft because of the crash, the planes will be given safety checks before being allowed to fly again. The United Nations says October was the deadliest month in 20 years for Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians that are harvesting olives. NPR's Lauren Freya reports from Tel Aviv. 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 1,000 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 and won by a settler. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

And you're listening to NPR News. Annual talks on climate change get underway on Monday, but many delegates are already in Belain, Brazil, this weekend. They're hearing stories of the damage already caused to the nation's most vulnerable to the changing climate. Host Nation Brazil is pushing for support to preserve forests worldwide, and leaders are discussing unified carbon markets to help reduce carbon emissions.

Researchers say damage from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica last month was made worse by climate change. As NPR's Alejandra Burunda reports, it was the strongest storm to ever hit that Caribbean island. Earth is about 1.3 degrees Celsius hotter now than it would be if humans had not caused global climate change by burning vast amounts of fossil fuels. That extra heat has so far mostly ended up in the world's oceans.

And a lot of the energy for storms like Melissa comes directly. from the ocean. A hotter ocean leads to potentially stronger wetter hurricanes. That's exactly what scientists at World Weather Attribution Think happened. Melissa had plenty of hot ocean water to feed on, so it got huge. In the end, its rainfall intensity was about 9% higher, with wind speeds roughly 7% higher than they would have been absent climate change. The storm caused more than 60 deaths in the Caribbean, though that number may rise over time. Alejandro Burunda and PR News. President Trump said Friday that Thanksgiving dinner this year will cost 25% less than last year, but it turns out that data was wrong. He cited a pre-packaged meal basket from Walmart, but that package

dropped in price because it contains fewer items and different products that makes it more affordable. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your money with Wise, you'll always get the mid-market exchange rate with no hidden fees. Join millions of customers and visit wise.com. T's and Cs apply.