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in Afghanistan.

Another House member is retiring from Congress and joining a record number of lawmakers calling it quits on Capitol Hill.

NPR's Luke Garrett has more on that report.

A new report by the U.N.

says Gaza's economy has collapsed to a fraction of what it was before the war.

About 80 percent of the population is now unemployed and nearly everyone has been pushed into poverty and are reliant on aid.

And Pierre Zaya Batraoui has more.

Travelers, at the end of the Thanksgiving holiday today, we're finding hundreds of flights delayed and canceled into and out of Chicago following a winter storm underway in the Great Lakes region.

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Voters in Switzerland decisively rejected a referendum that would have required women to do national service or other civil duties, as men currently do.

More than 84% of voters Sunday rejected what was labeled the Citizen Service Initiative.

Not one of the country's 26 cantons, which are similar to U.S.

states, voted in favor.

POW is a new animated short film being distributed to schools this month.

The goal is to show students a slice of modern Native American life.

M. Pierce Caden Mills spoke with the film's creator.

Zootopia 2 is in the record books.

The Disney sequel earned $96 million over the weekend from North American theaters and $156 million over the five-day holiday.

When you add in international sales, the movie has already made $556 million, making it the highest international opening ever for an animated movie.

Wicked for Good, meanwhile, was in second.