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In the present day’s prime story
The U.S. Senate voted 60 to 40 final evening to approve a unbroken decision to reopen the federal government. Speaker Mike Johnson referred to as the Home of Representatives again to Washington, D.C., as they should go the measure earlier than President Trump can signal it into legislation.
The U.S. Home of Representatives is seen on the fortieth day of a authorities shutdown on Nov. 9, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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- 🎧 Along with voting on the momentary funding measure, lawmakers voted on three bipartisan annual appropriations payments that cowl particular businesses just like the FDA, NPR’s Sam Gringlas tells Up First. Shifting ahead with these measures means there’s a likelihood of a partial authorities shutdown on the finish of January, however packages like SNAP, would proceed. A provision to increase expiring well being care subsidies was not included within the measure, however Senate Majority Chief John Thune says he’ll maintain a vote by mid-December. Within the laws for the subsidies, Democrats who’re in favor of them will want one thing that may win sufficient Republican votes.
- 🎧 Seven Senate Democrats and one impartial joined Republicans in voting to reopen the federal government, a transfer drawing backlash from voters on the left who say the occasion retains caving on key priorities. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro notes Democrats could have a bonus heading into subsequent 12 months’s midterms if affordability and the price of residing stay prime issues.
Delegates from practically 200 nations have begun local weather negotiations on the COP30 in Brazil. As with earlier summits, the negotiations start on a weak notice as nations are nonetheless not assembly their objectives to chop heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels.
- 🎧 The world is on monitor for 5 levels Fahrenheit of warming presently, NPR’s Lauren Sommer reviews, which might result in heatwaves and storms changing into extra intense, in addition to ecosystems like coral reefs having a low likelihood of survival. However there’s excellent news: over 90% of recent energy initiatives constructed final 12 months have been renewable displaying electrical energy is changing into cleaner globally.
- ➡️ Keep up-to-date with the newest information from the COP30 with this app-exclusive playlist of tales.
Some white Afrikaners and Afrikaans teams are actually pushing again towards the U.S. administration’s claims, labeling them as “lies” and “falsehoods” made of their title. The backlash follows Trump’s announcement that no U.S. officers will attend the G20 Summit, which South Africa is internet hosting as the present rotating chair of the group of main world economies, later this month in Johannesburg, citing “human rights” issues.
Residing higher
Nearly all of meals bought in U.S. grocery shops are thought of ultra-processed. However some nutritionists say not all of them are unhealthy.
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Residing Higher is a particular sequence about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.
Lately, efforts to enhance Individuals’ well being have centered on lowering the consumption of ultra-processed meals, which comprise nearly all of Individuals’ diets. Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has mentioned these meals are “poisoning” Individuals. However public well being and vitamin specialists nonetheless do not agree on a definition of ultra-processed meals:
- 🍟 The time period describes how a lot processing meals endure, from unprocessed or minimally processed to these with manufactured elements and components.
- 🍟 Some specialists argue that sure ultra-processed meals, equivalent to plant-based milks, might be useful for well being.
- 🍟 For a lot of, they’re additionally extra reasonably priced and accessible. Nevertheless, shoppers looking for more healthy choices can goal to make extra knowledgeable choices inside the ultra-processed class and cut back their sugar consumption.
Behind the story
NPR’s Quil Lawrence interviewing Dave Carlson.
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This essay was written by Quil Lawrence, NPR’s veterans correspondent
It is Veterans Day as we speak and NPR is the one mainstream nationwide community with a devoted veterans reporter. This week, Quil Lawrence launched a two-part podcast on The Sunday Story from Up First, which follows the story of Dave Carlson, an Iraq conflict veteran who he has been speaking to for over a decade.
Again in 2015, I used to be doing a narrative that led me to speak to some veterans who have been incarcerated. That is when somebody advised me a stunning truth: whenever you get incarcerated, you turn into a ward of the state. Which means, it does not make sense for the Division of Veterans Affairs to be caring for you, as a result of a special a part of the federal government is caring for you. And also you lose a variety of your veteran’s advantages.
I needed to know: what’s it wish to have fight PTSD after which be thrown into this atmosphere the place you may’t let your guard down, the place you may’t actually heal, and the place you do not have entry to providers that might assist? So I used to be searching for an incarcerated veteran to interview. And that is when I discovered a web site that includes Carlson’s writing from jail. His mother had set it up for him and she or he helped me get in contact.
There’s this query that is been nagging me ever since I used to be a conflict reporter embedded with lively responsibility troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. These have been the primary main set of wars we have had with no navy draft, which suggests a variety of American households weren’t compelled to endure the expertise of preventing or sending family members to battle these wars. That may make veterans type of really feel this loneliness and this cultural divide.
I needed to know: What will we owe the individuals who have been despatched to conflict and got here again with painful however typically invisible wounds? I do not know that I’ve absolutely discovered the reply, however this podcast helped me course of that query by way of Carlson’s story. Finally, I feel what we owe veterans principally is an open thoughts. And remembering that almost all vets are identical to you and me.
Take heed to Half 1 of the podcast right here and Half 2 right here.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Flesh is Hungarian-British creator David Szalay’s sixth novel.
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- David Szalay’s newest fiction novel, Flesh, has gained this 12 months’s Booker Prize, some of the prestigious awards in literature.
- The U.S. Supreme Courtroom yesterday declined to take up a case difficult its 2015 landmark choice to legalize homosexual marriage nationwide.
- The Jacksonville Jaguars will host their dwelling video games in Orlando in 2027 whereas their stadium undergoes a $1.4 billion renovation, an Orlando Metropolis Council member confirmed. (by way of WUSF)
This text was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.
