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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Rahm.
It is day three of the government shutdown and there's no sign that anyone plans to budge.
Republicans and Democrats blame each other for the impasse.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, says Americans are being hurt.
Real pain is being inflicted upon the American people
because 44 Democrats in the Senate have voted for the third time to reject the completely nonpartisan,
completely clean very simple 24-page continuing resolution that we passed in the House here two weeks ago.
Democrats want a provision that would extend healthcare subsidies for lower and middle-income Americans set to expire this year,
which would result in higher premiums for millions of Americans nationwide.
The FDA has approved another generic version of the abortion drug Mifepristone.
As NPR's Claudia Riddle reports,
the decision comes at a time when the drug is under attack from abortion opponents.
These kinds of approvals are typical when a drug's patent is up.
If a generic drugmaker shows its version is equivalent to the original, the FDA, by law, has to act.
But with the Mifepristone, the decision is controversial as it induces abortion.
Medication abortion accounts for more than half of the abortions in the United States.