Dua Halisai-Cautel

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisai-Cautel.

Severe winter weather is disrupting flights across the U.S.

During the peak holiday travel season,

NPR's Joel Rose reports that airlines canceled or delayed thousands of flights nationwide today.

The White House has not yet confirmed a meeting with Ukraine's president, but Volodymyr Zelensky says he expects to meet with President Trump on Sunday in Florida to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

From Kyiv, NPR's Joanna Kakisis reports.

GOP strategist Alex Konin tells NPR that the Republican Party is in a healthy position going into 2026.

Asked about another possible government shutdown in January, he said the last shutdown hurt Democrats the most and added, quote, I'm not sure Democrats want to repeat that.

Fifteen years after the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan led to a nationwide shutdown of nuclear reactors locally, the government there is set to resume operations at Kashiwazaki-Kairoa Nuclear Power Plant.

That's the world's largest nuclear facility just northwest of Tokyo on Honshu Island.

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The woman who once oversaw China's one-child policy was cremated in Beijing today.

She was 95 when she died.

NPR's Emily Feng reports her death earlier this week sparked vitriol online.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, announced an increase in its production of missiles and artillery shells

while visiting factories in his country's South Hamgyong province.

This is according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, and is not independently verified.

Images released this week by KCNA also showed pictures of what its state media described as an 8,700-ton nuclear-powered missile submarine.

This is reportedly the first reveal of what appears to be a completed hull of a nuclear submarine since 2021.

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