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Plus, man vs. hornet. On Today’s Episode: Chaos Consumes Drive to Avoid Government Shutdown, With 2 Days to Go , by Chris Cameron Dominique Pelicot Gets 20-Year Sentence in Rape Trial That Shook France , by Catherine Porter California Declares an Emergency Over Bird Flu in Cattle , by Apoorva Mandavilli Starbucks Has a Pumpkin Spice Latte Problem in China , by Alexandra Stevenson, Julie Creswell and Zixu Wang ‘ Murder Hornet’ Has Been Eradicated From the U.S., Officials Say , by Mike Baker Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.