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Shae Stevens. SHAY STEPHENS, MPR NEWS ANCHOR, WASHINGTON, FORMER MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, MEPHISM, Biden promised that the U.S. will continue pushing for an agreement to end the war in Gaza. We're going to keep pushing to celebrate a ceasefire deal that ensures universal security that brings households home and ends the suffering of the Palestinian people, the children. Biden also told leaders at the G20 gathering in Brazil that the U.S. remains committed to Ukraine's sovereignty and that those in attendance should be as well. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Congressman Sean Duffy to head the

Department of Transportation. Duffy is the second Fox News contributor picked to serve in Trump's cabinet. A new study finds that just over half of all people in the U.S. are facing economic insecurity. NPR's Jennifer Lutten reports that the study aims to gauge who may be struggling even if they're not poor. Researchers wanted to know what it takes for families to thrive, as in make ends meet and save a bit for retirement, a house, college. Greg Osch of the Urban Institute says it's a group not usually seen in data about poverty or unemployment. A lot of people are getting by, but it's hard.

And you don't have much margin, and you can't really start planning for the future. One important takeaway? The key factor was not having higher costs. It was low wages or lack of other income. Osh says many jobs just don't cover all the basic expenses that individuals and families have. Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington. Unidentified hackers recently broke into the networks of the Library of Congress. Officials say they may have stolen emails between library staff and congressional offices. NPR's Jennifer Clucklin has details.

Sometime between January and September of this year, the Library of Congress was breached by an unidentified adversary. A message from the library's IT experts says the hackers may have stolen emails between congressional offices and library staff, potentially including researchers working for the Congressional Research Service, or CRS. Many CRS reports are eventually made public, but not all, and not private communications between offices. The Library of Congress says it has mitigated the vulnerability used to break into its networks

and referred the matter to law enforcement. It appears House and Senate networks and the U.S. copyright office were not affected. Jenna McLaughlin, NPR News. U.S. futures are flat and after hours trading on Wall Street. Following Monday's mixed close, on Asia Pacific, market shares are higher, up a half percent in Tokyo. This is NPR.

A Wyoming judge has struck down the state's abortion law. The statute would have banned all abortion, including those using medication. Teeton County District Judge Melissa Owen says that the law illegally violates women's rights. A company associated with the disgraced media personality Alex Jones is challenging the bankruptcy sale of his Infowars to the satirical news site, The Onion. Jones was ordered to sell the company that owns his website as part of a defamation judgment for telling his listeners that the Sandy Hook

Elementary School massacre was a hoax. He alleges fraud and collusion in the auction sale of the company. Tens of thousands of people marched through New Zealand's capital, Wellington, today. As Christina Kukulja reports, they called for the withdrawal of a proposal that would reinterpret the country's founding treaty with the indigenous Maori people. Amid chants of kill the bill, a large crowd arrived at Parliament in Wellington to mark the end of a nine-day march that covered over 600 miles from New Zealand's far north to the capital. Parliament is considering the bill that seeks to redefine how the Treaty of Waitangi is interpreted in law and policymaking. Signed more than 180 years ago by the British colonisers and Maori chiefs,

the treaty covers matters includingori land and cultural rights. Opponents fear that if passed, the proposed law could weaken specific protections for Māori people. For NPR News, Christina Kukola in Melbourne, Australia. And I'm Shea Stevens. This is NPR News.