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What are the latest updates on U.S. diplomatic efforts regarding Ukraine?
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On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff were in Florida Sunday where they met with the Ukrainian delegation. The four hours of talks came days before a U.S. envoy is expected to meet in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rubio says there's much more work to be done, but they're making progress toward finding a lasting peace.
We don't just want to end the war. We also want to help Ukraine be safe forever. So never again will they face another invasion. And equally importantly, we want them to enter an age of true prosperity.
Republicans in Congress have introduced a measure that would allow employers to offer workers comp time instead of overtime pay. As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, it's a revival of an idea that's been floated many times in the past.
The bill is called the Working Families Flexibility Act. It would allow private companies to give workers the option of earning additional time off from work instead of traditional overtime pay. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires most workers be paid time and a half when they exceed 40 hours a week. Republican sponsors of the bill say it would free workers to make their own decisions about how best to juggle work and family time. Democrat and other opponents warn that workers could be pressured into accepting comp time in lieu of the overtime they've earned without a guarantee that they can take time off when they need to. Similar bills have been introduced in years past but have never become law.
Andrea Hsu and PR News.
The death toll from a huge fire at a housing complex in Hong Kong continues to rise. At least 146 people are now dead after recovery workers found more bodies in the wreckage. Cherise Pham has more.
Officials say most of the bodies were from one of the high rises that caught fire first and had less time for evacuation, according to public broadcaster RTHK. This is one of the deadliest fires in Hong Kong's history. It broke out at a sprawling public housing complex, home to about 4,600 people. Seven buildings caught fire. Officials say that they have now gone through four of those buildings. They say it may take weeks to search the remaining three. This weekend, the city was in mourning. Flags flew at half-mast, and videos from local media show hundreds of people lining up to lay flowers near the site of the fire. For NPR News, I'm Cherise Pham in Hong Kong.
Travelers who were heading home from Thanksgiving found hundreds of flights either delayed or canceled into and out of Chicago on Sunday. The problem was a major storm front that was dropping snow across the Great Lakes region and the Midwest. In Wisconsin, meanwhile, that storm knocked out power to thousands of people while the airport in Des Moines, Iowa was finally open Sunday after a plane skidded off the runway on Saturday night. National Weather Service forecasters say a new storm is headed to the mid-Atlantic and northeast later this week, with up to a foot of snow in some parts by Tuesday. You're listening to NPR News. Police in Stockton, California, say they still do not have a suspect in Saturday's shooting that killed three children and one adult and injured 11 other people.
The shooting took place at a children's birthday party, and police say someone at the party may have been the target. They're asking for tips, photos, and video that may help them find the shooter. NASA recently released photographs of a comet called 3I Atlas that was passing through our solar system. It's drawn much attention in recent months as speculation has grown that it could contain alien life forms. NPR's Katia Riddle has our reports.
NASA administrators were very clear when they released these photos. 3I Atlas is not an alien life form, but it's still very worthy of attention, they said.
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