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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. A group of Senate Democrats and an independent broke ranks yesterday and voted with Senate Republicans to move forward with a short-term spending deal. It would reopen the federal government, close now for 41 days. Most Democrats have been opposing a deal. They demand that Republicans extend subsidies for health insurance. Main independent Senator Angus King voted for the deal. He feels further delay won't get Republican senators to change their position on

restoring the health care tax credits. Would it change in a week or another week or after Thanksgiving or Christmas, and there's no evidence that it would? The stopgap deal would fund the government through the end of January. Some agencies would get funding for a full year. Late last night, a federal appeals court ordered the Trump administration to restore full funding to the federal food assistance program known as SNAP. And Pierre's Tovia Smith reports the shutdown.

has held up the benefits. A federal appeals court at midnight last night refused a Trump administration request to pause a lower court ruling, which means officials now have two days to pay SNAP benefits at 100%, not 65%, though they could take the case to the Supreme Court for the second time in a few days. A deal to reopen the government could get full payments flowing almost as quickly, but the SNAP lapse may have longer-term ramifications. Food pantries say they expect high demand to continue,

as many SNAP recipients need to restock their cupboards, and some food banks say they expect to be short on stocks since some large food orders they usually get from the government were not processed during the shutdown. Tovia Smith and PR News. The federal government shutdown means air travel is still being slowed, up to 10% by the end of this week. The tracking site, Flightaware.com,

says more than 1,500 flights have been canceled in the U.S. so far today. delays are being reported at major East Coast hums. Millions of Americans are dealing with an early blast of wintry weather. As NPR's Matt Bloom reports, the National Weather Service says the cold snap will persist through the early part of this week. Across the Great Lakes region, millions of people are seeing their first snowfall of the season. The winter weather has triggered advisories from Illinois to New York State and northern Maine. It's being driven by a large mass of Arctic air moving. over a large swath of the country. Temperatures in dozens of states are expected to hover 10 to 15

degrees below average. Daily records could fall, especially in parts of the south. A freeze watch is in effect from central Georgia to the Carolinas from Monday night into Tuesday. Even parts of northern Florida are expected to see a winter-like frost. The weather should bounce back to average November temperatures by midweek. Map Bloom, NPR News. You're listening to NPR. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting envoys from President Trump. They include Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Steve Whitkoff. This comes as Hamas has handed over the remains of an Israeli soldier who was killed in action in Gaza in 2014. Israel has been handing over the remains of Palestinians.

The exchanges are part of a ceasefire brokered by the U.S. President Trump is set to welcome the interim Syrian president to the White House. today, Ahmed al-Shara helped lead the overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad nearly a year ago. Al-Shara is expected to urge Trump to repeal sanctions imposed on Syria, while Assad's family controlled the country. Today marks the 50th anniversary of a Great Lakes maritime tragedy. NPR's Netta Ulibe reports, 29 men died on November 10, 1975, during the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. We remember the disaster because of the song by Gordon Lightfoot.

But it was one of thousands suffered by crews transporting lumber, limestone, and other goods across Lake Superior. A new bestselling book by John E. Bacon called The Gales of November Tells the Stories of the Sailors. It wasn't just 29 men. It were people with lives and futures and hopes and dreams. And people on shore who are always worried about them, looking for them to come home. Safety standards have tightened since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. No other freighters have sunk on the Great Lakes in the past 50 years. NADOOOllaby, NPR News. This is NPR.