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President Trump says he's appointed the governor of Louisiana as special envoy to Greenland.
He made the announcement in a Truth Social post on Sunday night.
As NPR's Matt Bloom reports, the first-term Republican governor is a staunch ally of the president's.
Israel's far-right finance minister says the cabinet has approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The move is part of a broader push by the government to expand those settlements, and it further threatens the possibility of a Palestinian state.
The settlements in the West Bank are widely considered to be illegal under international law.
Scientists believe they've discovered new species in the deep part of the Pacific Ocean.
NPR's Shondalese Duster has more on what the researchers found.
Fifty years after the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior, two pieces of the wreckage have sold at auction for $150,000.
The life ring and a piece of a lifeboat were both found on shore after the accident.
All 29 men on board the ship perished in the accident.
The wreck was memorialized by the late Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot.
Avatar, Fire and Ash roared into the movie theaters this weekend, bringing in $88 million in North American ticket sales.
When international sales are rolled in, it grossed $345 million in its first weekend of release.
The animated biblical story of King David, meanwhile, was in second with $22 million in ticket sales.
The Housemaid, about a woman starting her life over, was in third, bringing in $19 million in its opening weekend.
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.