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Israel and Hamas have ignored a U.N. Security Council call for an immediate cease-fire. Israel continued attacks in Gaza and Hamas kept up with its rocketing of Israel. Meanwhile, U.N. officials said they plan to resume aid to Gaza as soon as practical.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Ami Ayalon, former head of Israel's domestic security service, about Israeli leaders' political mistakes as the tide of global opinion turns against them.

Kamala Harris’s running mate on the Democratic ticket, Tim Walz, has lived in China, and traveled there many times. His relationship with China has been under scrutiny, especially from Republicans.

The results of the Dec. 20 election were announced amid calls from the opposition and civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to logistical problems they said had undermined the balloting.

In 2023, traffic fatalities seemed to be on the decline from recent years, but the numbers are still higher than before the pandemic — and pedestrian deaths on roadways remain at crisis levels.

In Russia, ballet fans brave sub-zero temperatures for a chance to see The Nutcracker at Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theatre.

A major storm system brought heavy rains, winds and flash flooding through Kentucky and other parts of the East and South, leaving at least nine dead.

In North Carolina, the hardest-hit communities are also some of the hardest to reach. Days after the remnants of Hurricane Helene, people are trying to decide whether they should stay or leave.

School spirit at Penn State was dealt another blow Saturday when it lost its last home game of the football season to Nebraska. The loss comes just days after the firing of the university's iconic head coach Joe Paterno and the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on 40 counts of abusing young boys. NPR's Jeff Brady reports on the game's aftermath.

The National Transportation Safety Board opened a three-day investigative hearing Wednesday on the January midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which killed 67 people.