Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The government shutdown moved into its 27th day today, and congressional leaders say they are no closer to an agreement. More than a million federal workers have missed a paycheck, and the food assistance program known as SNAP is almost out of money.

NPR Stephen Fowler reports that SNAP has long been a target of the Trump administration.

It has been a priority of Trump in both his first term and now to cut the SNAP program. In fact, the so-called one big beautiful bill passed earlier this year has some of the largest ever reductions to SNAP.

And almost everything the White House has done during the

shutdown has been focused on blaming Democrats, targeting programs and places they feel

disproportionately impact Democrats. And this is no different. In addition to SNAP, early education,

and other benefits that serve tens of millions of Americans are at risk this week if a deal is not reached.

Universities across the country have closed academic programs they shared with China,

under pressure from a House committee report that said those programs threaten U.S. national security.

Michelle Maritzko, member station KJZZ reports that includes two colleges in Arizona.

Republican Congressman Eli Crane says Northern Arizona University ended its dual degree electrical engineering partnership program with Chongqing University in China after it appeared in a report co-authored by the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party.

The University of Arizona shuttered four tech microcampuses in China after the committee noted

its partnership, spokesman Mitch Zach. We've communicated directly with those affected and are working

with enrolled students to help them continue their education.

The report states U.C. Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and at least six others have all shut down our Chinese partnership programs,

but has said more than 50 others continue them.

For NPR News, I'm Mitchell-Mariscoe and Flagstaff. French police are questioning two suspects arrested Saturday night for their involvement in the Louvre heist.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that police have two more days to get the suspects to talk before they must release or charge them.

French television is full of experts weighing in on how the tiaras and necklaces could be dismantled or taken out of the country or both.

There's also talk of a possible accomplice inside the Louvre.

Christian Flech, the former director of the Paris Police, said that's entirely possible.

Who can imagine you'd scale a ladder up to a balcony of the Louvre without having a minimum guarantee of what the security situation is inside, he told BFM News Channel.

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