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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The U.S. Supreme Court is temporarily extending its hold on paying full-snap food benefits through Thursday. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that the move appears to be aimed at allowing more time for negotiations to end the federal shutdown, which would render the issue moot. The Trump administration had asked the High Court to block full food benefits after a lower court judge ordered them. The extended stay means states can still make only partial payments. The legal wrangling over the country's largest anti-hunger program has kept millions of people who rely on it in limbo. That could change soon as Congress votes on a deal to end the shutdown, which includes SNAP funding until next fall. Restoring that will be a relief not only to recipients, but also the retail stores where they spend their SNAP dollars and food pantries which have struggled to meet a surge in demand.

Amanda. Jennifer Lutton and P.R. News, Washington. President Trump is backing away from his announced crackdown on the foreign worker visa program known as H-1B. In a heated exchange with Fox News's Laura Ingram, Trump suggested the visas are necessary because not enough Americans are qualified for certain jobs. You also do have to bring in talent when a country... Well, we have plenty of talented people here. No, you don't. We don't have talented people here. No, you don't have, you don't have certain talents and you have to, people have to learn. You can't. take people off an unemployment line and say, I'm going to put you into a factory who are going to make missiles. Trump disagree with Ingram on whether H-1BVs are crackdowns will be a priority for his

administration. In September, ICE agents arrested hundreds of South Korean engineers who came to the U.S. to build a battery factory at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. With record lows in the southeast and the first snow of the season, it may seem like winter has come early to parts of the U.S. But as NPR's Giles Snyder reports, freezing temperatures are on the way out. The National Weather Service says the unseasonably cold weather will gradually come to an end. Forecasters say temperatures will moderate toward normal for the second part of the week in the southeast, hit by a major cold snap that saw record lows Tuesday morning, including 28 degrees in Jacksonville, Florida. Alabama and Georgia were also under freeze warnings.

Further north of the first snow of the season, more than a foot fell in West Virginia's Canaan Valley. and icy interstate bridges led to multiple crashes on interstate 77. Parts of the Great Lakes region and the northeast saw significant snow as well. At Michigan, the village of Bubley got nearly eight inches. The weather service has six inches fell during a seven-hour period. Trial Snyder NPR News. The USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group are in the Caribbean. The Navy aircraft carrier group arrived from the Mediterranean

as part of the Pentagon's escalation of U.S. military might near South America. This is NPR. Thailand says it has paused the implementation of a U.S. brokered ceasefire with Cambodia, pending an apology for landmine explosion. Thailand's prime minister has accused Cambodia of laying new mines in violation of a truce that was signed just last month. There's been a major theft from Syria's main archaeological museum in Damascus. A Syrian Antiquities official tells NPR that six marble Roman-era statuettes were stolen. More from Gina Rath in Amman. They were taken overnight Monday from a public display area of the historic museum.

A senior culture ministry official tells NPR. Lena Katafad says there was no sign of forced entry into the museum, and the missing items have been reported to Interpol, the International Law Enforcement Agency. The museum contains artifacts spanning thousands of years, including from what were thriving Roman cities. It was closed for several years during Syria's civil war, reopening this January after Bashar al-Assad's regime was toppled. Syria's director of antiquities says security forces are investigating, and the museum has taken immediate steps to strengthen security and monitoring.

For NPR News, I'm Jane Araf in Amman. Veteran actress and Golden Globe winner, Sally Kirkland, has died at the age of 84. Kirkland's career in film and television spanned decades. She appeared in movies like JFK, Anna, and The Way We Were. U.S. futures are flat and after-hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR News. 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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