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Blake Farmer of member station WPLN has more from a drive-thru food distribution site in rural Tennessee.

Overseas, Ukrainian cities are facing power cuts of between 8 and 16 hours after massive Russian strikes on the energy grid wiped out power-generating capacity.

Russia has intensified attacks on energy infrastructure each fall since its full-scale invasion more than three years ago.

NPR's Joannika Kicis reports from Kyiv.

Nearly a million Filipinos have been evacuated from their homes as Super Typhoon Fung Wong batters the Philippines, less than a week after another typhoon killed more than 200 people, as Michael Sullivan reports.

A powerful earthquake rattled northern Japan today.

It struck off the coast with a magnitude of 6.9.

There are two nuclear plants in the area, but public broadcaster NHK says no abnormalities have been reported.

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Thousands of people attended a funeral today for the last Israeli-American hostage returned from Gaza.

After being held there for more than two years, his remains were returned to Israel last week as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

NPR's Itay Stern reports from Tel Aviv.

Israel has received the remains of another deceased hostage.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement that the remains were handed over to Israeli forces by the Red Cross today.

There has been no formal identification, but earlier Hamas said it would turn over the body of an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza more than a decade ago.

The remains are to be examined by Israel's National Forensic Institute for identification.

I'm Jyle Snyder.

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Few signs of progress in breaking the government shutdown stalemate.