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At the moment’s high story

The U.S. Senate voted 60 to 40 final night time to approve a seamless 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 legislation.

• 🎧 Along with voting on the short-term funding measure, lawmakers voted on three bipartisan annual appropriations payments that cowl particular companies 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 unbiased 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 12 months’s midterms if affordability and the price of dwelling stay high considerations.

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 observe 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 stories, 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 12 months had been renewable displaying electrical energy is turning into cleaner globally.
• ➡️ Keep up-to-date with the most recent 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 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” considerations.

Dwelling higher

The vast majority of meals bought in U.S. grocery shops are thought-about ultra-processed. However some nutritionists say not all of them are unhealthy.

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Dwelling Higher is a particular collection about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

Lately, efforts to enhance Individuals’ well being have centered on decreasing 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 diet 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 components and components.
• 🍟 Some consultants argue that sure ultra-processed meals, reminiscent of plant-based milks, might be useful for well being.
• 🍟 For a lot of, they’re additionally extra reasonably priced and accessible. Nonetheless, customers searching for more healthy choices can intention 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 right now 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 warfare 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 advised me a shocking reality: if you get incarcerated, you develop 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 number 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 possibly can’t let your guard down, the place you possibly can’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 warfare reporter embedded with energetic obligation troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. These had been the primary main set of wars we have had with out a navy draft, which suggests a number of American households weren’t pressured to endure the expertise of combating or sending family members to struggle these wars. That may make veterans type of really feel this loneliness and this cultural divide.

I wished to know: What will we owe the individuals who had been despatched to warfare 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. In the end, I feel what we owe veterans principally is an open thoughts. And remembering that the majority vets are similar 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 writer David Szalay’s sixth novel.
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1. David Szalay’s newest fiction novel, Flesh, has received this 12 months’s Booker Prize, one of the vital prestigious awards in literature.
2. The U.S. Supreme Court docket yesterday declined to take up a case difficult its 2015 landmark resolution to legalize homosexual marriage nationwide.
3. 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 article was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.