Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says SNAP benefits could return this week.

He tells CNN the administration won't appeal the two court rulings last week,

ordering the White House to release billions of dollars in reserve funds to the 42 million Americans

who rely on the food assistance program to eat. That benefit

ran out yesterday amid the shutdown, but just how fast the money will reach the people in need

is uncertain. Elizabeth Kiever is chief resource officer at Harvesters, a food bank in Kansas City,

Missouri. She says the lines are very long. At one of the sites, the cars started lining up as early as four in the morning.

By the time 10.30 rolled around at Sheffield Family Life Center, we had to start turning cars away.

And as I was leaving, we turned down 10 cars.

So when the last trunks got full and the pallets ran out of food, it just was

really hard to see. Speaking there to NPR's weekend edition, she says it's nearly impossible

for food banks to make up the gap that the suspension of SNAP benefits leaves.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth says the military conducted another lethal strike on an alleged

drug smuggler in the Caribbean.

It's the 15th strike of an alleged drug smuggling boat since early September.

And here Sam Greenglass has more from West Palm Beach, Florida.

Secretary Hegseth wrote on social media that three people were

killed on the vessel, which he said was carrying narcotics and was operated by a group the U.S.

designates as a terrorist organization. The military has now killed at least 64 people in similar

strikes. The administration has justified the attacks using illegal authority President George W. Bush used to

declare war on terrorism after 9-11. But some members of Congress have pressed for more information

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