Invoice to reopen authorities heads to Home; COP30 : NPR

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The U.S. Senate voted 60 to 40 final evening to approve a unbroken decision to reopen the federal government. Speaker Mike Johnson known as the Home of Representatives again to Washington, D.C., as they should move the measure earlier than President Trump can signal it into regulation.

• 🎧 Along with voting on the short-term 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. Transferring 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 celebration retains caving on key priorities. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro notes Democrats could have a bonus heading into subsequent yr’s midterms if affordability and the price of residing stay high issues.

Delegates from almost 200 international locations have begun local weather negotiations on the COP30 in Brazil. As with earlier summits, the negotiations start on a weak be aware as international locations are nonetheless not assembly their targets 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 turning 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 tasks constructed final yr had been renewable displaying electrical energy is turning 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 in opposition to the U.S. administration’s claims, labeling them as “lies” and “falsehoods” made of their identify. 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

The vast majority 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.

In recent times, efforts to enhance People’ well being have targeted on decreasing the consumption of ultra-processed meals, which comprise nearly all of People’ diets. Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated these meals are “poisoning” People. However public well being and vitamin consultants nonetheless do not agree on a definition of ultra-processed meals:

• 🍟 The time period describes how a lot processing meals bear, from unprocessed or minimally processed to these with manufactured substances and components.
• 🍟 Some consultants argue that sure ultra-processed meals, equivalent to plant-based milks, will be helpful for well being.
• 🍟 For a lot of, they’re additionally extra inexpensive and accessible. Nonetheless, shoppers searching for more healthy choices can purpose to make extra knowledgeable selections inside the ultra-processed class and scale 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 at present 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 had been incarcerated. That is when somebody informed me a shocking reality: while you get incarcerated, you change into a ward of the state. That means, it would not make sense for the Division of Veterans Affairs to be taking good care of you, as a result of a distinct a part of the federal government is taking good care of you. And also you lose lots of your veteran’s advantages.

I wished to know: what’s it wish to have fight PTSD after which be thrown into this setting 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 companies that might assist? So I used to be on the lookout for an incarcerated veteran to interview. And that is when I discovered an internet 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 energetic obligation troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. These had been the primary main set of wars we have had and not using a army draft, which suggests lots of American households weren’t compelled to endure the expertise of preventing or sending family members to battle these wars. That may make veterans form of really feel this loneliness and this cultural divide.

I wished to know: What can we owe the individuals who had been despatched to conflict and got here again with painful however usually invisible wounds? I do not know that I’ve absolutely discovered the reply, however this podcast helped me course of that query via Carlson’s story. Finally, I believe what we owe veterans principally is an open thoughts. And remembering that the majority vets are identical to you and me.

Hearken 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 writer David Szalay’s sixth novel.
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1. David Szalay’s newest fiction novel, Flesh, has gained this yr’s Booker Prize, one of the crucial prestigious awards in literature.
2. The U.S. Supreme Courtroom yesterday declined to take up a case difficult its 2015 landmark determination to legalize homosexual marriage nationwide.
3. The Jacksonville Jaguars will host their house video games in Orlando in 2027 whereas their stadium undergoes a $1.4 billion renovation, an Orlando Metropolis Council member confirmed. (through WUSF)

This text was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.