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Chapter 1: What unfinished business is Congress facing upon returning?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. Congress Monday returns to a host of unfinished business. Members will also be back at the Capitol for the first time since the surprise resignation announcement of Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that jolted the Republican caucus. NPR's Sam Gringrass reports.
For weeks, there have been small signs of frustrations among rank-and-file Republicans in Congress. Some have criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson for conducting no business during the government shutdown.
Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the Gaza conflict?
Others have begun to show some daylight with President Trump on topics like the war in Ukraine, tariffs, the filibuster, expiring health subsidies, and more. When Congresswoman Greene, long one of Trump's most outspoken allies, said she planned to resign before the end of her term, it further brought those tensions into the open.
Quote, our legislative majority has been mostly wasted, Greene wrote on X, agreeing with a Punchbowl News report about Republican members considering retiring midterm. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
Gaza health officials say an Israeli airstrike killed two young children Saturday.
Chapter 3: How can public health workers be retained in today's job market?
Gaza's official death toll from the war has now surpassed 70,000. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv.
Gaza's health ministry says two young Palestinian boys about 9 and 10 years old were killed in an Israeli drone strike Saturday morning when they crossed into the Israeli-controlled area of Gaza. A Gaza health ministry spokesman told NPR the Israeli-controlled zone is not clearly marked in the area. Israel's military called them suspects posing an immediate threat to soldiers.
The military declined comment on the victims being children.
Chapter 4: What happened during the recent mass shooting in Stockton, California?
More than 350 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since a ceasefire was declared last month. It's unclear when the next steps in the ceasefire will take place, including a call for Hamas to lay down its weapons, and an international force to enter Gaza. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
New research finds that non-traditional benefits such as flexible work schedules and child care could help keep younger public health workers on the job. As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, the findings are drawn from a survey of more than 50,000 public health workers.
Heather Krasna of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health is worried about a trend revealed in survey data. State and local public health workers 35 and younger are leaving the field at higher rates than older workers.
Chapter 5: What is the emerging music genre called Prank?
She says keeping those workers is critical.
The thing with public health is that it's really invisible until something goes really wrong.
Krasna's research finds younger workers value flexible schedules, remote work options, and child care. She says providing such benefits is especially important now that job stability, a hallmark of public sector work, is on the decline. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
It's back to work for Wall Street Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday. You're listening to NPR. Four people are dead, three of them children and one young adult, this after a mass shooting Saturday night. At a child's birthday party in Stockton, California, 11 others were injured.
Investigators say they believe this was a targeted attack as the shooting took place at a banquet hall and as many as 150 people were attending the event. Police say the suspect or suspects are still at large. The Stockton Police Department, as well as the state law enforcement, The FBI and the ATF are involved in this investigation.
One of the most inescapable music subgenres of 2025 is called Prank. It's now a soundtrack to many video games and TikTok videos. NPR's Netta Ulube has more.
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Chapter 6: What message is Pope Leo delivering to Lebanon's leaders?
Prank mashes together the homemade lo-fi sound of Memphis rap with crepescular Eastern European techno. It's ambient mood music for millions of short-form videos people make of themselves driving, pumping weights, or as background to fan edits of anime. Music like this track, called Funky Town by Play-O-Fonk, is exceptionally popular in videos of drifting.
That's when cars smoke their tires and sweep sideways down racetracks or streets in moves that were popularized by the Fast and Furious movies. Netta Ulipi, NPR News.
Now in Lebanon, Pope Leo is challenging that country's political leadership to put their political differences aside. It's the second stop in the Pope's trip, his first as pontiff. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington.