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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The Trump administration has directed states to stop funding full-snap benefits for the month. NPR Shonda Lee's Duster has more. The U.S. Department of Agriculture told states late Saturday to, quote, immediately undo any steps taken to issue full-snap benefits for November 2025. States that fail to comply with the directive could face penalties, including liability for overpayment. The U.S. Supreme Court Friday night granted an administrative stay, temporarily blocking a law court order that ordered the Trump administration

to pay SNAP benefits in full for this month. The Supreme Court also said its order would last until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit acted on the Trump administration's request in that court for a stay. Shandalee's Duster and PR News. The longest government shutdown in history continues. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says there will be a vote today in a rare Sunday, session. This says air travelers are experiencing widespread cancellations and delays at the busiest airports across the country because of a shortage of air traffic controllers who are working without

pay. And peers Joe Hernandez has more. Late last week, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would begin cutting flight traffic up to 10% at 40 high traffic airports in major markets like Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver. On Sunday, airports across the country were bogged down by disruptions by Mid-morning there were already more than 1,200 flight cancellations and 10,000 delays, according to the website Flight Aware. The FAA is currently contending with a shortage of air traffic controllers who were already in short supply before the shutdown and now are not being paid. The shutdown, which began on October 1st, is the longest in U.S. history. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says flight disruptions across the country will only

worsen the longer the shutdown goes on. Joe Hernandez, NPR News. Russia says it has no intention of resuming nuclear testing, but acknowledged it's studying the possibility. This in response to an order by President Trump for the U.S. to begin its own nuclear tests. And here's Charles Mainz reports. The Kremlin says that Russian president, Vladimir Putin, ordered his military to explore the possibility of nuclear testing, but would do so only if the U.S. resumes its own nuclear arms tests. President Trump is threatened to do just that.

in an apparent response to Russia's recent testing of two nuclear-capable delivery systems that experts note did not include atomic warheads. Meanwhile, Moscow says it's still waiting for a U.S. response to a proposal to de facto extend the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty when it sunsets in February of next year. Putin has proposed both sides continue to observe limits imposed by the treaty for an additional 12 months to give time for negotiators to hash out a new agreement. Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

Two leaders of the BBC, including its boss, resigned today after criticism that a BBC documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by President Trump. NPR's Fatima al-Qaab reports from London. The BBC's leadership had been under mounting pressure after a newspaper report suggested that a BBC documentary, which aired a week before last year's presidential election had edited two parts of a speech by President Trump, so he appeared to explicitly encourage the January 6th Capitol Hill riots. The memo from an external advisor to the BBC accused the corporation of serious and systemic bias

in its coverage of issues including President Trump, Gaza and trans rights. The president's press secretary Caroline Levitt described the corporation as a propaganda machine following the allegations. In his resignation note to staff, BBC boss Tim Davy said the decision was entirely his own. Fatemar al-Kasab, NPR News, London. The NFL says former commissioner Paul Tagliabu has died.

He helped bring labor, peace and money to the NFL during his 17 years with the franchise, but he was criticized for not taking stronger actions on concussions. Tagliabu was commissioner from 1989 when he succeeded Pete Rose. to 2006, and current Commissioner Roger Godell succeeded him. Tagliabu was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of a special centennial class in 2020. He was 84 years old. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington.