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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Senate has taken a major step toward ending the government shutdown. NPR's Claudia Griselis reports lawmakers voted last night to advance a deal that could allow the government to reopen later this week. The package includes a stopgap measure to fund the government through the end of January. It also includes full year appropriations funding plans for some federal agencies and services. It will pause planned. cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, and also reverses federal worker layoffs installed by the Trump administration during the shutdown and protects the workforce from more cuts for a few months to the end of January. That's MPR's Claudia Grosales reporting. The Supreme Court has declined to revisit its 2015 ruling that legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices rejected an appeal from former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after that decision.

Davis sought to overturn an order requiring her to pay $360,000 in damages and legal fees. President Trump has issued a sweeping pardon of his allies related to the 2020 presidential election. The pardon names numerous campaign attorneys and people who met five years ago. NPR's Miles Parks reports that's when they tried to create alternate electoral slates. The document pardons all those associated with a plot to make false electoral slates that could have potentially interfered with the presidential certification on January 6, 2021. It names Trump campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesboro, Mark Meadows, and John Eastman, as well as dozens of other people who met, often in secret, to sign documents claiming they were legitimate electors in states and states actually won by Joe Biden. The pardons are essentially symbolic, as none of the people pardoned have been charged with federal crimes. Some are charged in their individual states, but the pardon has no impact on those cases.

Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington. President Trump is meeting with the president of Syria today. NPR's Jane Aref reports. President Ahmed Ashara will be the first Syrian head of state at the White House in almost 80 years. He's a former al-Qaeda in Iraq militant leader. A year ago, he had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. His fighters toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad last December, and since then, Trump has decided that Shara is someone he wants to deal with. Most sanctions on Shara and Syria have been removed, but there are still some to be lifted.

Trump is expected to invite Syria to join U.S.-led efforts fighting the militant group ISIS. For NPR News, I'm Jane Araff in Amman. Stocks are trading higher on Wall Street at this hour. the Dow was up 90 points, the NASDAQ up 378. This is NPR News in Washington. Today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most infamous shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. In 1975, 29 crew members on the Edmund Fitzgerald died after the vessel sank to the bottom of Lake Superior. A.J. Jones from member station W.C.M.U. reports.

The Great Lake Shipwreck Museum in Michigan's Upper Peninsula will hold two events remembering the tragedy. Musician Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the incident in the 1976 ballad, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Mike Fornes is the band leader of a Lightfoot tribute band that has performed at the museum for the last 15 years. He says it's an honor to support the families. You really feel a kinship. You can see the pain. You can see the grief that is still with them. Those 29 men are still in the ship. Divers are not allowed to visit the wreckage because it is an international grave site. For NPR news, I'm AJ Jones in Mount Pleasant Michigan. Starbucks's latest merchandise release is turning into a national flashpoint for

caffeine and consumer culture. The coffee chain's $30 barista cup sold out within hours of hitting stores last week. Some locations only received one or two of the limited edition glass cups leading to arguments and viral videos of customers fighting over them. Resale listings on eBay show prices in the hundreds, with some topping $1,000. Starbucks has apologized for the frenzy, but hasn't said if more cups are coming. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.