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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Senate Democrats say they're offering a compromise to reopen the government, but Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune says it's a non-starter. NPR's Barber's Front reports. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a proposal to reopen the government with a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits. Those credits are set to expire at the end of the year and have been central to this government shutdown.

Most Democratic senators have been holding out on voting to fund the government until Republicans agree to extend those credits. Schumer also proposed establishing a bipartisan committee to negotiate on long-term health care reforms. Republicans want to address health care subsidies after the government reopens. Any deal in the Senate would also have to pass the House, which remains out of town. Barbara Sprint and Pure News, the Capitol. Senators remain on Capitol Hill. They're working through the weekend for the first time since the government shut down more than a month ago. Tens of millions of a Americans who receive federal food assistance through SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, remained in limbo this weekend.

The Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay of a lower court's order that SNAP payments resume in full. In Charlotte, North Carolina, Sylvia Lindsay, says a half payment she received is not enough to support her autistic grandson. It's like they want you to be even further down. It's just really sad and disappointing. And a brief order signed by Supreme Court Justice Kataji Brown Jackson last night. Jackson cited an appeals court's intention to issue a judgment soon as a reason for her order. The Trump administration is fighting that lower court's decision that it fully funds snap amid the government shutdown. Travelers are facing another day of flight delays at the nation's airports because of the shutdown.

According to the flight tracking website, Flight Aware, more than 1,000, more than 800 flights have been canceled so far. and more than 1,200 have been delayed as airlines comply with the Federal Aviation Administration order to reduce service. On Wall Street, stocks lost ground this week. MPR Scott Horsley reports that investors were left guessing about the state of the job market. The Labor Department's regular jobs tally was held up by the government shutdown for the second month in a row. That left analyst looking for alternative measures of the strength or weakness of the labor market, A consulting company that tracks layoff notices says it was the worst October for job cuts in more than two decades. Consumers are feeling gloomy.

A University of Michigan survey showed consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level in three years. And high-flying tech stocks also lost some altitude, as investors wondered if artificial intelligence will live up to all the hype. For the week the Dowdipped 1.2 percent, the S&P 500 index fell 1.6 percent, and the NASDAQ tumbled 3%. Scott Horsley, Empire News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. UPS and FedEx have grounded their fleets of MDE-11 planes following this week's crash in Louisville, Kentucky that killed 14 people. The companies announced a decision separately last night, both citing an abundance of caution, saying the grounding came at the recommendation of the plane's manufacturer.

MD-E-11s were made by McDonnell Douglas, which merged with Boeing in 1997. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. OpenAI facing seven lawsuits in San Francisco and Los Angeles, each alleging that people have been harmed by interactions with Chat-ChpT. Some of them died by suicide. Rachel Myro, Member Station KQED has more. The lawsuits against OpenAI allege assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and that the company knew Chat-GPT 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 cheap T to spot distress and steer users toward real-world support. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Myro in San Francisco. Another typhoon has the Philippines in its sight. The storm already bringing strong winds and heavy rain and is forecast to make landfall by early Monday earlier this week. A typhoon killed more than 200 people in the Philippines. I'm Jail Snyder, NPR News.