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Live from NPR News, I'm Jail Snyder. Senate Majority Leader John Thune dismissed the chamber following a late-night vote that could lead to an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. After six excruciating weeks, I will stop talking and let all of you get some rest. The Senate voted last night 60 to 40 on a stopgap measure that keeps the government open until the end of January, after a small group of Democrats and an independent cut a deal with Republicans. However, the agreement does not include the extension of health care subsidies that Democrats sought. The next step is up to the House. House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling lawmakers back to Washington with an eye toward a potential vote as soon as Wednesday.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will positively vote no on the deal. From Member Station KQED, Sarah Hoseini reports. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Pelosi said the recent compromise falls, quote, very short of what the American people need and deserve, and she urged Americans to save the Affordable Care Act and key social safety nets. That's what we hope that will save us now as people speaking out to their Republican members to say, I know what you're doing, you're making my health care unaffordable, you're taking food out of the mouths of my children or my parents and grandparents and the rest. Pelosi also called President Trump the nation's worst president for children, referring to his cuts to food assistance programs and the federal workforce overseeing special education. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Hosseini in San Francisco. The Trump administration is again asking the U.S. Supreme Court to keep full food aid payments on hold. The move is the latest in the legal fight over how snapship proceed during the government shutdown.

The justices expected to decide late today whether to hold. lower court orders that the administration fully fund snap amid the potential end of the shutdown. The Supreme Court has decided rather declined to revisit a landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage. From Emmerstation WKYU, Lisa Autry reports. A same-sex couple sued former Rowland County clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds. She appealed the $360,000 jury verdict arguing protection under the first Amendment. Chris Hartman leads the Louisville-based fairness campaign. He fears the 2015 ruling could still be revisited. The reality is that Kim Davis's case was never the one that was going to make it to the

Supreme Court. All of the experts agreed that this was the weakest possible challenge to marriage equality in the U.S. The Conservative Liberty Council, which represents Davis, says by declining to hear the case, the court leaves the quote, wrongly decided 2015 opinion in place. For NPR news, I'm Lisa Autry in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This is NPR. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pledging to bring to justice as responsible for Monday evening's car explosion in New Delhi. The blast went off near the historic Red Fort, which is popular with tourists.

At least eight people were killed. Several others were injured. The explosion is being investigated under India's anti-terrorism law. A federal circuit court appeals panel has ruled that, the owners of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette have engaged in bad faith in dealing with contract negotiations for years. The newsroom union has been out on strike for three years and has not had a contract for eight. Here's NPR's David Foconflick reporting. The Block Company, based in Toledo, Ohio, is notorious in newspaper circles for its hardline stances on labor issues.

The company had repeatedly rejected the News Guild's proposals in 2020 put in place terms that cut health benefits and undermine job security. A sharply divided union went out on strike in October 2020 on a narrow margin. The decision says the striking news workers are entitled to their old jobs, as well as compensation for the difference in how much their health care insurance has cost. The Block Company has not publicly commented. A staffer who answered the phones at headquarters hung up on NPR. Block can still appeal the unanimous decision. David Fulkenflick, NPR News. Some of the coldest air of the season so far has settled into the eastern two-thirds of the country.

low temperatures expected in the southeast, including Florida. The National Weather Service says to expect periods of snow in the Great Lakes region and in New England through this afternoon, several inches expected. This is NPR News.