News Wrap: Senate works through weekend as shutdown enters 40th day
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. There's been another swing in the seesaw legal battle over the federal nutrition program known as SNAP, as tens of millions of low-income Americans, wait to see if they get benefits payments this month. |
| 0:15.0 | The Trump administration is demanding that states that followed a judge's orders and paid out full benefits this past week, |
| 0:21.3 | undo it because the Supreme Court later blocked that ruling for the time being. |
| 0:25.9 | This comes as the Senate holds a rare Sunday session. |
| 0:29.0 | Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota said a potential deal to end the 40-day shutdown |
| 0:33.8 | is coming together, but it wasn't a done deal. |
| 0:37.3 | Air travelers at 40 busy airports |
| 0:39.1 | faced a third day of reduced flights. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned about it |
| 0:44.2 | lasting until Thanksgiving. It's only going to get worse. I look to, you know, the two weeks |
| 0:49.6 | before Thanksgiving, you're going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle. According to the flight tracking website, Flight Aware, so far today, more than 2,000 |
| 0:59.1 | flights at U.S. airports have been canceled and more than 7,000 delayed. |
| 1:04.5 | Super Typhoon Fung Wong hit the Philippines's northeastern coast today, killing at least two |
| 1:09.3 | people and forcing the evacuation of more than a |
| 1:11.8 | million from areas prone to flooding and landslides. The storm battered the region with strong winds |
| 1:17.5 | and heavy rains, knocking down power lines as people sought shelter. It's the biggest to threaten |
| 1:22.4 | the Philippines in years. Just this past week, another typhoon caused widespread destruction and |
| 1:27.4 | killed more than 200 |
| 1:28.6 | people. Hamas handed over the remains of an Israeli soldier killed in 2014, hours after the |
| 1:35.1 | ceasefire ended that year's Gaza war. Forensic testing confirmed that the body was that of |
| 1:40.1 | Hadar Golden. It brought bitter closure to his family who had campaigned for his return. |
| 1:45.6 | Hamas said it found Golden's body yesterday in a tunnel in Rafah. Israel is still awaiting the |
| 1:51.1 | return of the bodies of four hostages taking in the October 7th attacks. Former longtime NFL |
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