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President Trump is back in Washington after spending a week in Asia. He attended the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, addressed U.S. troops in Japan and met with China's President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sen. Lisa Murkowski about the possible loss of SNAP benefits due to the shutdown.
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Driving through barricades and burned banks in Douala: Cameroon's disputed election sparks a showdown with its young generation.
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Public health leaders and researchers are kicking off a meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss how to counter what they see as dangerous ideas coming from the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to consider whether to pay at least partial SNAP food benefits -- even though millions of people will be without aid starting tomorrow.
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President Trump has spent nearly two weeks outside of Washington, D.C., since the shutdown began on Oct. 1
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Barbara Sprunt
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NPR
Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown.
Shalina Chatlani
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Stateline
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With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.
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