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An ad for Bath & Body Works is dispensing fragrances such as pine in one of the busiest parts until the end of the month.

Writer Jerome Murray told the Associated Press it smells better than the normal New York City tunnels.

I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's leaving Congress on January 5th.

Her announcement follows months of public clashes with party leaders and former allies.

NPR's Amy Held reports.

The news seems to have taken aback even Republican insiders.

Ukraine's European allies are racing to respond to a Kremlin-friendly proposal by the Trump administration to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale war on Ukraine.

NPR's Joanna Kakisis reports Ukraine's president says the proposal is forcing Ukraine to choose between its dignity and the loss of the U.S.

as an ally.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been rearrested and taken into custody after the country's highest court determined he was trying to flee house arrest.

The BBC's Jacob Evans has more.

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Officials in Nigeria now say that 303 students and 12 teachers were abducted from a Catholic boarding school yesterday.

NPR's Jewel Bright reports Nigeria's government says dozens of boarding schools will now temporarily close because of the risk.

China is taking its dispute with Japan to the United Nations.

Japan's new prime minister, Sanai Takaichi, said earlier this month that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could be seen as a situation threatening Japan's survival, a legal designation that would allow Japan to deploy its military.

China sent a letter to the UN Secretary General yesterday that Japan had committed a grave violation of international law and that China would firmly defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

China maintains that Taiwan is Chinese territory.