Tonight on PBS News Weekend, day 40 of the government shutdown as the Senate holds

a rare Sunday session to try to break the stalemate.

Then a new study suggests a troubling connection between medical imaging and pediatric cancer.

And the effect ending USAID funding is having on countries like Indonesia and on America's image

abroad.

How now when the government of the United States says to the government or the people of

Indonesia, we're here to support you, how can they believe that?

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. The Trump administration is demanding that states that followed a judge's orders and

paid out full benefits this past week undo it because the Supreme Court later blocked that

ruling for the time being.

This comes as the Senate holds a rare Sunday session.

Majority leader John Thune of South Dakota said a potential deal to end the 40-day shutdown

is coming together, but it wasn't a done deal.

Air travelers at 40 busy airports faced a third day of reduced flights.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned about it lasting until Thanksgiving.

It's only going to get worse. I look to, you know, the two weeks 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

flights at U.S. airports have been canceled and more than 7,000 delayed.

Super Typhoon Feng Wong hit the Philippines's northeastern coast today, killing at least two people

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