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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's latest request to pause SNAP food aid payments, leaving millions of Americans in limbo this weekend. The temporary stay issued last night comes as the administration is appealing a court order, requiring it to pay recipients full benefits for this month. Here's NPR's Gigi Dubin reporting. Snap recipients in several states from California to Wisconsin had just begun seeing money loaded up on their EBT cards to buy food.

Those states acted once a federal judge this week, ordered the Trump administration to restore SNAP funds by Friday. 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. In the meantime, many states still haven't distributed November SNAP benefits, and it's unclear whether states that have will be reimbursed. Gigi Duban, NPR News.

Delays at the nation's airports expected to worsen this weekend because of the government shutdown. Travelers facing a second day of flight cuts ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration, starting with 4% of flights at high traffic airports and ramping up to 10% next week. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, warning of even bigger cuts ahead. So if this shutdown doesn't end relatively soon, we're going to have to continue to assess the pressure in the airspace and make decisions that may again move us from 10% to 15% maybe to 20. Secretary Duffy speaking there to Fox News, officials say the flight cuts are necessary to keep the airspace safe

during the government shutdown. In Washington, senators are working this weekend for the first time since the shutdown began more than a month ago. However, a deal remains elusive. Yesterday, Republicans rejected an offer from Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, involving a one-year extension of health care subsidies, a central shutdown issue. Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the offer a non-starter. Immigration authorities using new controversial tools to help them identify and locate non-citizens

who are eligible for deportation. MPR's Jew Juffy Block has more. Federal immigration agents, as well as some local law enforcement, now have access to cell phone apps that use facial recognition technology. 404 media first uncovered this information. Jeremy Scott, Senior Counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says tools like this can lead down a dangerous path. Increasing mass indiscriminate surveillance, or increased surveillance in general,

is not compatible with democracy. It is compatible with authoritarianism. Immigration and customs enforcement did not answer questions about specific tools, but in a statement defended using technological innovation to fight crime. Jude Jaffe Block, NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News. Hospital officials in Gaza say Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians as part of the U.S. brokered ceasefire. The return came shortly after the Israeli military, said it had identified the remains of a hostage turned over last night as that of an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas during the attack that started the war.

In Ukraine, Russia launched another large-scale drone of missile. missile attack overnight. Authorities say an apartment building in the city of Nipro was hit, killing three people and injuring 12 others. The Ukrainian Air Force says Russia fire more than 450 drones and 45 missiles targeting energy infrastructure across the country. Ukraine says most were shot down, but 25 locations were hit. Millions of Americans will get an early taste of winter weather over the coming days, and NPR's Matt Bloom reports records might fall across many states. A large mass of Arctic air is making its way from the Northern Plains to the southeast this weekend, bringing with it the first measurable snowfall of the season for parts of the

Dakotas, Minnesota, and Great Lakes region. By Monday, highs in the 30s and 40s are forecast from the Ohio Valley to the southeast U.S. Northern Texas and as far east as the Appalachians could see potentially daily record lows at or below freezing. Even parts of northern Florida, could see lows around 40 degrees closer to Veterans Day. The cold weather is expected to last several days before warming back up to more average fall temperatures. Matt Bloom, NPR News. And I'm Giles Snyder.

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