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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Democrats have lost another battle to get health insurance subsidies extended beyond December 31st now that Congress has voted to end the government shutdown. A dispute over expiring health care subsidies held up agreement on a stop-get bill until seven House Democrats broke rank and sided with Republicans. Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson saying the shutdown was unnecessary. They admitted that they were using the American people as less, in this political game. They knew that it would cause pain and they did it anyway. The whole

exercise was pointless. It was wrong and it was cruel. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffrey says Democrats remain passionate about health care. House Democrats will continue to fight to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for tens of millions of Americans. This fight is not over. We're just getting started. President Trump has signed the bill to reopen government and has called for direct consumer health care subsidies for low-income Americans. Some health care consumers are pushing Senate Republicans to keep their promise to vote by mid-December on extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies. Chuck Kornbach reports from Milwaukee.

As part of a Senate measure this week to end the federal government shutdown, GOP leaders promised a vote on extending tax credits for premiums paid under the Affordable Care Act. at a news conference held by Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin, Care Act Enrollee, and freelance author Nancy Peske, said she needs the credits because her health insurance costs may triple next year. It's not just my health insurance that's going to go up. It's everybody's, right? We're all in this together. Wisconsin officials say 275,000 state residents benefit from the enhanced premium tax credits. For NPR News, I'm Chuck Kornbach, Milwaukee. The FAA says a 6% reduction in domestic air traffic at 40 major airports

will not be raised to 10% by the end of the week as planned. The ongoing restrictions are meant to address staffing shortages at air traffic control towers. The shortages were triggered by the shutdown. U.S. residents are rapidly becoming less religious. NPR's Jason DeRos reports on a new Gallup poll. Over the last decade, Gallup has found a 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is in important part of their daily lives. Now, just 49% say it's key. Gallup says that decline is among the largest it's recorded in any country over a 10-year period,

and that such a large drop is rare among the 160-plus countries it studies. Chile, Turkey, and Portugal have seen similar declines. Gallup's analysis finds that only a few countries have experienced larger losses in religiosity, among them Greece, Italy, and Poland. Jason DeRose, NPR News. You're listening to NPR. A federal jury has awarded over $28 million to the family of a U.N. consultant killed in the March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 max jet in Ethiopia. Shika Garge was among 157 people killed when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed.

Boeing has negotiated pretrial settlements in most of the dozens of wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the mishap. The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is stepping down when his termics ends early next year. More from NPR, Scott Horsley. Rafael Bostick has served as president of the Atlanta Fed for the last eight years. In addition to taking part in the central bank's interest rate decisions, he's overseen activities of the bank in a region that covers all are part of six southeastern states. The terms of all 12 regional Fed presidents expire in February. Those who decide to stay on will have to be confirmed by the Fed's Board of Governors here in Washington.

While President Trump will choose the next Fed chairman and any new members of the governing board, leaders of the regional Fed banks are chosen by regional boards of directors, typically drawn from local businesses. Regional Fed bank presidents get a rotating vote on interest rates. The president of the Atlanta Fed's next turn comes in 27. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. The World Health Organization says the fighting in Sudan has killed at least 40,000 people and displaced 12 million others since April 2023, when the Sudanese army and the rival RSF forces began fighting. The two sides are former allies that were supposed to oversee Sudan's transition to democracy

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