Hollywood Writers Reach Deal To End Strike, Shutdown Implications, Prison Deaths

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

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TV and movie writers have reached a tentative deal with Hollywood studios that could soon end a nearly five-month strike. Union members still have to ratify the deal. Other negotiations, however, aren't go so well. In Washington, a deal to keep the government open beyond the end of this month appears less and less likely. How would a government shutdown affect the U.S. economy? And what's happening inside a North Carolina federal prison?

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0:00.0	TV and movie writers reached a tentative deal with Hollywood studios that could end a nearly
0:07.6	five-month strike.
0:09.2	Union members still have to ratify the deal, which Union leadership called exceptional.
0:13.4	So what's in it?
0:14.4	I'm Steve Innscape with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:22.0	Other negotiations aren't doing so well.
0:24.0	In Washington, a deal to keep the government open beyond the end of this month appears
0:28.1	less and less likely.
0:30.1	It comes at a time when we are seeing other threats in the US economy.
0:35.3	How would a government shutdown affect the US economy?
0:38.3	And what's happening inside a North Carolina federal prison, an NPR investigation reveals
0:42.9	that this one facility accounted for a quarter of all deaths of people in federal custody
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