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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump says he supports the Senate deal that would end the government shutdown. It's now the longest in history at 41 days. Eight Democrats are joining in with Republicans on the agreement to temporarily fund. the government. The full Senate is poised to vote on the measure, NPR's Deepa Shivaram has more. Trump told reporters that the government would be opening back up, quote, very quickly, though the House would still need to pass any short-term package before Trump can sign it. Based on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything, and we have support from enough Democrats, and we're going to be opening up our country.

Trump called the deal, quote, very good, and said he would abide by it, including the measure that reverses the mass firings of government employees that took place during the shutdown. Deepa Shiverum and PR News. Millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance remain in limbo as the Trump administration appeals of federal judges ruling to fully fund SNAP payments this month. Nick De La Canal of member station WFAE reports food assistance organizations are feeling the strain. Have a great time, ma'am. Thank you so much. A line of cars wraps around the block at a food chair in Charlotte for people who receive.

snap benefits. Some here say they received partial payments on Friday, but it wasn't much. One man said he received $16 when he usually receives about 100. Others, like Michelle Sands, still have empty accounts. I keep looking online and looking at it. I even call my card and it still ain't saying nothing. The uncertainty comes as food banks are preparing for Thanksgiving, normally their busiest time of year, and they say every day the shutdown continues makes their own holiday outlook more uncertain. For NPR news, I'm Nick Della Canal in Charlotte. The Food and Drug Administration is removing stringent warnings about risks from hormone therapy products used to ease symptoms of menopause and paramenopause. NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent Sidney Lupkin

has more on the change in the agency's stance. Blackbox warnings on hormone therapies are the FDA's strongest. They're used to inform doctors and patients that a drug can cause serious or life-threatening side effects. The warnings had been on hormone therapies for more than 20 years and say the drugs increase the risk of certain cancers, strokes, and heart attacks. Now the FDA is removing the warnings, saying those risks were overstated. It's a change many doctors have urged the FDA to make, but they say the agency didn't follow its usual procedure for doing so. The FDA convened a special expert panel in July instead of using an existing advisory committee, which follows a stricter process for reviewing evidence and making

recommendations. Sydney Lupkin NPR News. Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. struck two more boats, allegedly carrying drugs, killing six people. There have been 19 such attacks, and the death toll is now at least 75 people. The Trump administration has provided no evidence for its assertions that the boats are carrying drugs. This is NPR News. The BBC says President Trump threatened legal action over the way a speech he made was edited in a documentary. The broadcaster's top executive and its head of news both quit yesterday over accusation. of bias and misleading editing. In the documentary, aired before the 2024 election, Trump's

January 6, 2021 speech was edited to emit his call for peaceful protest. BBC Chairman Samir Shah apologized for the, quote, error of judgment. The annual UN climate meeting, also known as COP 30, has officially kicked off in Brazil. NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports one goal of the meeting is to accelerate progress on climate change. In recent years, wind and solar power has expanded dramatically. It's now the cheapest source of electricity in most of the world, but it's not enough to avoid catastrophic amounts of warming in the coming decades, says United Nations climate chief, Simon Steele. We must move much, much faster on both reductions of emissions and strengthening resilience. Delegates from more than 190 nations are participating in this year's

meeting. The United States is not among them, because President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Rebecca Hersher, NPR News. Wendy's plans to close hundreds of locations in the coming months to try and boost profits. The company says it expects a mid-single-digit percentage of its stores will be affected. Wendy's has more than 6,000 restaurants in the U.S. And major U.S. stock indexes recovered most of their losses from the last week after a rally from tech stocks today. I'm Rylan Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your money with Wise, you'll always get the mid-market exchange rate with no hidden fees.

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