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Support for this podcast and the following message come from Autograph Collection Hotels, with over 300 independent hotels around the world, each exactly like nothing else. Autograph Collection is part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of hotel brands. Find the unforgettable at autographcollection.com. Live from NPR News, I'm Korova Coleman. President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former Florida Attorney General, Bondi as his candidate for U.S. Attorney General. Bondi is an experienced prosecutor and was on Trump's legal team during his first impeachment trial.

His first nominee, former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, withdrew yesterday. Gaetz was being investigated by the House Ethics Committee on sex trafficking allegations. Enfair's Claudia Grisales says his nomination had been troubled. Republican sources who questioned this nomination predicted this exact outcome to me, since many were sure he wouldn't survive the Senate vetting process. They said Gates would drop out because he would become a distraction, in turn become a hero for the hard right, and then leverage all of this oxygen for his nomination into a possible run for Florida governor. His name has been

tossed around for that quite a bit. But before then he could return to his seat in January because that is a completely new term he was elected to and that would force the ethics probe to start again. NPR's Claudia Gersalas reporting. Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin confirms that Russia fired a medium-range ballistic missile on a Ukrainian military facility yesterday. As NPR's Charles Means reports, Putin says it was a response to Ukraine's long-range missile strikes with Western-made weapons on Russian soil. Putin said Russia had tested a newly

developed hypersonic missile against Ukraine's military. What he said was a non-nuclear response to recent aggressive Western actions against Russia. Putin accused the West of both allowing and overseeing long-range missile strikes by Ukraine inside Russia this week, adding the war in Ukraine now threatens to become a global conflict. Putin boasted the new weapon performs at speeds invincible to Western air defenses. He also said Russia preferred a

peaceful resolution to the conflict but was ready to escalate further if necessary. The next move was up to the US and its allies said Putin even as he warned them not to test Russian resolve. Charles Mainz, NPR News. ...are expected to take to the skies in record numbers this Thanksgiving holiday. N and as Joel Rose reports the record for most passengers screened on a single day could also fall. Joel Rose- Transportation Security Administration is preparing to screen a record 18 million people in the week before and after the Thanksgiving holiday according to TSA Administrator David Pekosky.

David Pekosky- This will be the busiest Thanksgiving ever in terms of air travel. This year has already been the busiest in TSA Administrator David Pekoski. This will be the busiest Thanksgiving ever in terms of air travel. This year has already been the busiest in TSA history. Pekoski says the 10 busiest days in the history of the TSA have all happened since May of this year. The busiest days next week are likely to be Tuesday, Wednesday, and especially Sunday, when more than three million people are expected to pass through TSA checkpoints. That could top the single-day record set in July. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.

Meanwhile, the motoring organization, AAA, says when auto travel is combined with air traffic nearly 80 million people will travel for the holiday. This is NPR. A lingering storm system on the West Coast could pour several more inches of rain on northern California. Feet of snow are expected in higher elevations. Winds could gust up to tropical storm strength up into Oregon. Young people spend nearly 1,000 fewer hours being social in a single year compared to

two decades ago. That's a statistic from the U.S. Surgeon General's report on the epidemic of loneliness. NPR's Katie Ariddle reports this has inspired a project to encourage people who are Gen Z to socialize more. The One More Hour campaign is an initiative from a research group called the Foundation for Social Connection. Jillian Rakuzin is the executive director there. She says this epidemic of loneliness started even before the pandemic. Really the data showed in 2019, 2020 and beyond that Gen Z is reporting the loneliest generation. To help young people spend more time together, this project gave small grants to affinity

groups that socialize in person. Things like a surfing club, a filmmaking club, and a reading club. Rakuza says young people want to socialize more, they're just out of practice. Katie Ariddle, NPR News. Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Otani has won his third most valuable player award. It's his first in the National League. The American League's MVP is New York Yankee star Aaron Judge. Officials in Australia say they've released an Emperor Penguin back into the ocean. The male came ashore in Australia a few weeks ago after apparently traveling more than 2,000 miles from his native Antarctica.