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In the present day’s high tales
Near 1,000,000 and a half federal staff throughout the U.S. are going with out pay right now as the federal government enters day 24 of the shutdown. Yesterday, the Senate blocked dueling payments to pay federal staff. The Republican invoice would have paid the folks nonetheless working regardless of the shutdown. The Democratic choice would have paid everyone, together with furloughed staff.
A girl walks previous an indication indicating the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork is closed because the US authorities continues its shutdown Oct. 6 in Washington, D.C.
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- 🎧 Tierra Carter, who works on the Social Safety Administration, tells NPR’s Andrea Hsu that she’s needed to take out loans and search a hardship withdrawal from her 401(okay) as a result of shutdown. Carter says it feels as if she is attempting to swim to the highest of a pool, however each time she will get to the center, she is knocked again down. Hsu tells Up First that if the shutdown continues, consultants imagine most people will start to really feel the financial results of their communities. Grocery shops close to federal buildings are already experiencing much less foot visitors.
Portland Path Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Warmth guard Terry Rozier had been among the many greater than 30 folks arrested yesterday in an FBI investigation into unlawful playing. The arrests stem from their alleged involvement in two main schemes: one involving bets positioned on NBA video games and the opposite regarding underground poker video games. Billups and Rozier have been positioned on go away.
- 🎧 This case is an enormous deal as a result of the scandal includes leaks from a number of groups and gamers or coaches allegedly sharing personal data with gamblers, says NPR’s Becky Sullivan. The scheme got here to mild due to monitoring providers that observe bets and search for uncommon patterns. For instance, Rozier allegedly informed a pal he would withdraw from a recreation with an damage, which led that pal to promote the data to a gambler. Consequently, organized bettors positioned a couple of quarter of 1,000,000 {dollars} on proposition bets predicting Rozier would underperform.
This week, the Trump administration introduced new sanctions on Russia aimed toward bringing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating desk to finish the conflict in Ukraine. The sanctions goal two oil giants, Rosneft and Lukoil, which make up almost half of Russian oil exports, based on NPR’s Charles Maynes. This transfer to sanction comes after President Trump reversed his resolution after initially saying he would maintain one other summit assembly with Putin.
- 🎧 The sanctions are important as they mark the primary time Trump has adopted by way of on threats to carry Russia accountable for the conflict, Maynes says. The thought for the summit got here after a telephone name Putin initiated with Trump. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was set to fulfill with Trump about the potential for the U.S. offering Ukraine with long-range weapons. Trump determined to not give the weapons to Ukraine and mentioned he’d meet with Putin as a substitute. Putin knowledgeable reporters final evening that the canceled assembly and sanctions undermined latest progress in restoring relations with the U.S.
In the present day’s hear
Members of a youth orchestra outdoors Kyiv carry out a composition they wrote in regards to the sounds of the conflict in Ukraine at evening.
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The lives of Ukrainians have modified in some ways since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, together with the way in which nighttime sounds. For the reason that begin of the conflict, the nation has been hit with over 50,000 drone strikes. Members of a youth orchestra outdoors of Kyiv know the brand new sounds of their nation nicely and are engaged on a sonic poem about it. The sound of the piece begins as a peaceable evening or an extraordinary day in an extraordinary metropolis, till chaos rocks the town. The orchestra members use their devices to imitate the sounds they hear at evening, from drones flying round to the emergency autos that cross by their properties. Hearken to this State of the World From NPR episode to listen to how the orchestra is channeling their day by day actuality into this composition.
Weekend picks
Sudan Archives’ The BPM straddles home, techno, lure and R&B, however within the least binary methods attainable.
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Yanran Xiong
Try what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Films: In Good Fortune, Keanu Reeves performs a guardian angel who makes an attempt to show Arj, a gig employee, a life lesson by granting him the possibility to swap locations with a finance mogul.
📺 TV: No person Desires This is again for a second season, offering not solely good banter, however some fairly deep questions on religion and compatibility.
📚 Books: Jaquira Díaz’s debut novel, This Is the Solely Kingdom, spans generations and focuses on some fragile mother-daughter relationships amid the commotion of a Puerto Rican neighborhood.
🎵 Music: The BPM explores the “weak particular person you might be IRL with the assured free spirit you will be nearly,” NPR Music’s Sheldon Pearce says in his evaluation of Sudan Archives’ new album.
🍞 Meals: Chef and creator Samin Nosrat’s Good Issues: Recipes and Rituals to Share with Folks You Love: A Cookbook supplies large batch recipes excellent for a gaggle meal. Try her recipe for Pane Criminale, a garlic-butter-infused loaf of bread.
❓ Quiz: I scored a ‘first rate’ eight out of 11. Higher than final week! Now it’s your flip to offer it a attempt. Who is aware of, perhaps additionally, you will enhance.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Chess Grandmasters Vladimir Kramnik (left) and José Martínez Alcántara face off on the World Chess Conflict of Blames match on Aug. 19, 2024, in London. The Worldwide Chess Federation mentioned Wednesday it’s investigating Kramnik for allegations of dishonest he levied at Daniel Naroditsky and different elite gamers.
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- The Worldwide Chess Federation is investigating Russian grand grasp Vladimir Kramnik for dishonest allegations he made in opposition to fellow elite gamers, together with 29-year-old U.S. grand grasp Daniel Naroditsky, who died earlier this week.
- This week, an viewers in Culver Metropolis, Calif., loved a particular advance screening of Bugonia as a part of a publicity stunt. The catch? Moviegoers needed to comply with have their hair shaved off by a barber within the theater’s foyer.
- NPR’s Far-Flung Postcard collection takes you on a practice journey the place you’ll be able to see the views from Mumbai to Goa in India.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
