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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. With the federal shutdown over, full SNAP food benefits are finally being restored, but NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports anxiety over the funding pause will linger.

Jacqueline Giamona and her two kids rely on SNAP for nearly all their groceries, and the past two weeks without it were tough. She says depriving low-income

people of a necessity like food was an abuse of power. People are going to distrust the government,

and I think people are going to be really angry about it for a long time. Advocate Crystal Fitzsimons

with the Food Research and Action Center would like Congress to prevent a repeat.

It does make me nervous that this could be used as a negotiating tactic again.

She and others do see one positive. They say all the attention has shown just how vital snap is for so many people.

Jennifer Lutton and Pierre News, Washington.

A federal judge heard arguments today challenging the appointment of the U.S. attorney who secured the indictments against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General, Letitia James.

NPR's Ryan Lucas has more.

Attorneys for both James Comey and Lettisha James say that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan was unlawfully

appointed. Because of that, they say, the separate indictments against Comey and James should be found

invalid and dismissed. The Justice Department, meanwhile, argues that Halligan's appointment

is valid and legal, and any perceived problem with it is at most, quote, a paperwork error. U.S. District Judge

Cameron McGowan Curry was assigned to hear challenges to Halligan's appointment. Curry heard a little

more than an hour of arguments from defense attorneys and prosecutors. She did not rule from the

bench, but she did say she plans to issue her ruling by Thanksgiving. Ryan Lucas NPR News, Alexandria, Virginia.

Home insurance is increasingly expensive in many parts of the country,

including the Central U.S., NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports.

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