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Hey, it's Aisha Harris from Pop Culture Happy Hour. If you love NPR podcasts, you'll want the new NPR Plus podcast bundle. Enjoy an all-you-can-eat selection of NPR Plus podcasts with sponsor-free listening and bonus episodes. Plus, you'll be supporting public radio. Check it out at plus.npr.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. A New York judge has decided to postpone

his decision on whether President-elect Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution in his criminal hush money trial, even though he has already been convicted. NPR's Humana Bustillo reports a decision could come next week. Lawyers for the Manhattan District Attorney over the weekend asked New York Judge Juan Merchan to delay his decision on immunity in order to review how the presidential election would impact Trump's landmark criminal trial. Trump in May was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Emil Bovi, one of Trump's lawyers, agreed with the delay. Bovi said the stay and even a dismissal are necessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments

to Trump's ability to govern. The New York judge was expected today to make a decision on whether some evidence brought in during Trump's trial violated the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that presidents cannot be prosecuted for official acts taken in office. Jimena Bustillo, NPR News, New York. Exit polls from last week's election show a variety of reasons why Americans voted the way they did. One major takeaway, higher prices impacted their votes.

NPR's Scott Horsley reports when inflation rises, politicians in power often pay for it at the polls. One of the biggest drivers for voters backing Donald Trump was inflation. It affects my budget and everyone I know because we're paying more for groceries. It's actually, it's shocking. That's Teresa Wolf, who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. We first spoke a few months ago and she told me how unhappy she was about the high cost of living. I called her back to hear how she's feeling after the election.

I have to tell you my first reaction was relief. Maziar Minovi, who heads the Eurasia Group, has studied dozens of elections going back decades and found whenever there's a sustained period of high inflation, voters are twice as likely to lose faith in the people running the government. And Vice President Harris was saddled with that incumbent label. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. The International Airport in Haiti's capital has been temporarily shut down. Gangs open fire at airplanes landing in Port-au-Prince. Journalist Harold Isaac is in the Haitian capital. He says one plane that was struck was a Spirit Airlines jet. As the Spirit Airlines 951 was attempting to land in

Port-au-Prince, it got struck by gunshots and had to abort the landing and reroute to Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. The only injury reported was a flight attendant that got grazed by a bullet. Meanwhile, officials with JetBlue say one of their planes returning from Haiti landed in New York yesterday. Workers found damage from a bullet on that jet. The violence comes as Haiti's transitional government fired its prime minister and installed a new one.

Organized gangs have not stopped terrorizing much of Haiti. On Wall Street, the Dow is down 140 points. This is NPR. The leader of the Church of England is resigning. A church report found the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, failed to do enough several years ago to stop a church volunteer who was a serial abuser of children. New Zealand's government has today formally apologized for the historical abuse suffered by hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in state care.

As Christina Kukulja reports, earlier this year, a public inquiry revealed details of widespread abuse spanning decades. Addressing a special sitting of Parliament, New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon apologised for what he described as the unimaginable horrors suffered by the victims. He told survivors the abuse was horrific, heart-breaking and wrong, and the government must take responsibility for the harm caused. You deserved so much better and I am deeply sorry that New Zealand did not do better by you.

In July, a public inquiry found nearly one in three children and vulnerable adults in care between 1950 and 2019 experienced abuse, including forced labor, rape, sterilization and electric shocks. Some survivors have criticized the government for what they see as a slow response to establish a national compensation scheme. For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne, Australia. American and abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general in the Maryland National Guard. Tubman led dozens of black soldiers

on a gunboat raid during the Civil War. She also served as a nurse, a scout, and a spy. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.