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What military actions did President Trump announce regarding ISIS in Nigeria?
President Trump has announced a series of military strikes on ISIS targets in northwest Nigeria. NPR's Tamara Keith reports the action was taken in cooperation with the Nigerian government.
President Trump first drew attention to Nigeria last month with a series of social media posts, including this video.
Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands and thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.
In a post announcing the strikes, Trump wrote, Merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues. In his own post, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thanked the Nigerian government for its cooperation and said there would be more to come. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says a meeting with President Trump could happen soon. In a post on social media, Zelensky said a lot can be decided before the new year following talks with members of the Trump administration. The Kremlin and Kyiv remain far apart on key demands. House Republicans have a long to-do list when they return to Washington in the new year. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports lawmakers will be faced with a packed legislative agenda and keeping a close eye on the November midterm elections.
It's still not clear they're going to keep their majority. They face the prospect of another government shutdown threat in January. And that's in addition to calls for Washington to address an affordability crisis that we expect will dominate on the campaign trail. And there's also those spiking premiums for health insurance after Congress failed to extend subsidies for Obamacare plants. This is going to likely add fuel to the fire that Congress is not addressing a lot of urgent issues for American families come November.
NPR's Claudia Grisales. AAA says the price of gasoline is down 19 cents from this time last year. NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reports prices have been dropping steadily over the last month, just in time for the holidays.
This year, the price of gasoline has been relatively low and remarkably stable. Instead of rising in the summer, the national average was basically a straight line. Partly that's because oil prices have been low, thanks largely to the oil cartel OPEC pushing more barrels onto the market. AAA expects that nearly 110 million Americans will travel by car this holiday season. The app GasBuddy estimates that the lower gas prices this year will save Americans collectively nearly $400 million weekly on those trips. AAA says the cost of public EV charging remains steady, averaging 38 cents per kilowatt hour. Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. A powerful storm system that brought days of heavy rain, wind and snow to California is starting to ease but is still causing problems for several areas. Forecasters warn of high surf along the coast and flash flooding in the Los Angeles area. A mountain town northeast of L.A. is still under evacuation due to possible mudslides. The back-to-back storms, fueled by atmospheric rivers, are blamed for at least two deaths. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for New York City and the tri-state area. Bruce Convisor has more.
It's expected to be a fast-moving storm. Snow is forecast to spread across the region late Friday afternoon. It should intensify overnight before heading out to sea by midday Saturday. Up to eight inches of snow could blanket the region, stretching from northeastern Pennsylvania across northern New Jersey, New York, Long Island, and into eastern Connecticut. It would be the second significant snow to hit the region in the past two weeks, as much as six inches of snow coated a large swath of New Jersey earlier this month. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Kahnweiser in New York.
The Food and Drug Administration is recalling more than 83,000 bags of frozen raw shrimp from Indonesia over radioactive contamination.
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