Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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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 National Weather Service issued winter storm advisories warning of hazardous travel conditions from Michigan through the mid-Atlantic and southern New England. New York City is bracing for heavy snow.
That's forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights at airports in New York and New Jersey, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, with JetBlue, Delta Airlines and American Airlines canceling the most flights. On the West Coast, high winds are causing lengthy delays for flights landing at San Francisco International Airport.
Winter storms are disrupting one of the busiest travel days of the holiday season, with more than 47,000 flights planned, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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.
Zelensky wrote on social media that, quote, a lot can be decided before the new year. Territorial issues remain the most sensitive. Earlier this week, Zelensky said he was open to withdrawing Ukrainian troops from the eastern region of Donbass, as long as Russia also pulled back its troops. Ukraine controls about a quarter of this region.
The Trump administration is proposing turning this portion into a free economic zone. Volodymyr Polovyi, a soldier whose unit is stationed in Donbass,
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Chapter 2: What severe weather impacts are affecting holiday travel in the U.S.?
says Russia has been trying to occupy the region for more than a decade. And during that time, he says, Russia signed peace and ceasefire agreements and did not respect them. Joanna Kekises, NPR News, Kiev.
GOP strategist Alex Konin tells NPR that the Republican Party is in a healthy position going into 2026.
Inflation is basically over. The White House and the Fed, I think, have done a good job of getting a handle on it. We've seen very low inflation to the point where the Fed is now cutting interest rates. That, coupled with strong GDP growth, continued low unemployment, the hope is that by next November, Americans are feeling much better about the economy.
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. You are listening to NPR News from New York City.
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.
Peng Peiyun joined the communist underground at just 16 years old, marrying and eventually having four children with a man who had brought her into the secret communist organization. In 1988, Peng would be appointed head of the State Family Planning Commission, a position she held for a decade.
Her task was to enforce China's one-child policy, infamous for the forced sterilizations and even abortions performed on mostly rural women. Privately, however, one official said Peng wondered whether such brute methods were needed. And later in retirement, she wrote letters to top Chinese policymakers arguing that demographically, China should remove all birth limits.
China said it would end its one-child policy in 2015, but currently limits most families to three children. Emily Fang, NPR News.
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