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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green says she's leaving Congress on January 5th. Her announcement follows months of public clashes with party leaders and former allies. NPR's Amy Hailed reports the news seems to have taken aback even Republican insiders. President Trump told ABC News in a phone call he was not given a heads up, and he thinks the news of Green's departure is great. He posted to Truth Social her relationship with congressmen, Thomas Massey did not help her. Massey, who co-led the effort to get the party to defy Trump with

the Epstein-file vote, posted he's sad Green is leaving and lauded her honesty. Green rose to fame embracing Q&on conspiracy theories. Not now in her resignation video. There is no plan to save the world or a 4D chess game being played. Some analysts suggest Green may be trying to broaden her appeal before a bid for higher office. The one-time hard-right die-hard Trump loyalist has a prediction. Republicans will likely lose the midterms. As for herself, she says she's looking forward to a new path. Amy held NPR News. Ukraine's European allies are racing to respond to a Kremlin-friendly proposal by the Trump administration to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale war on Ukraine. NPR's Joanna Kikis reports Ukraine's president says the proposal is forcing Ukraine to choose between

its dignity and the loss of the U.S. as an ally. video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said any plan to end the war must include provisions that would prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine again. Real peace is always based on guaranteed security and justice, he said. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. So do Ukrainians and so do most people in the world. A U.S. official told NPR that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Geneva to work on the next steps to end the war and that a Ukrainian delegation will join him. European leaders have criticized the current proposal and say they must be involved in any deal. President Trump says he wants Zelensky to sign a deal by Thursday.

Joanna Kikisis and PR News. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been re-arrested and taken into custody after the country's highest court determined who is trying to flee house arrest. The BBC's Jacob Evans has more. According to Judge Alexander de Moresse, Mr Bolsonaro attempted to break his ankle monitor in the early hours of Saturday morning. He's been on tag for months since disobeying a court order and was sentenced in September to 27 years in jail for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election. Mr. Morais added the fact that Jaire Bolsonaro lived within a 15-minute drive of the U.S. Embassy further prompted the arrest. He alleges that Mr. Bolsonaro had earlier sought political asylum in the embassy of Argentina, whose

President Javier Malay is a long-term ally. The BBC's Jacob Evans. This is a is NPR News. Officials in Nigeria now say that 303 students and 12 teachers were abducted from a Catholic boarding school yesterday. NPR's Jewel Bright reports, Nigeria's government says dozens of boarding schools will now temporarily close because of the risk. The attack on St. Mary's Catholic School in the northern state of Niger is among Nigeria's bigger school abductions. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 Chiburg schools.

schoolgirls by Boko Horam Sparks Global Outreach in the years since, hundreds of students have been seized, often for money. Experts say schools are easy targets as they lack adequate security. No group has taken responsibility for this latest abduction. Authorities say a massive search and rescue operation is underway after armed men on motorcycles attacked the school in the early hours, taking staff and students away in large vans. Earlier in the week, 25 students were taken by gunmen from another boarding school in a neighboring state. Joe Bright, MPR News, Vegas. China is taking its dispute with Japan to the United Nations.

Japan's new prime minister, Sanai Takaichi, said earlier this month that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could be seen as a situation threatening Japan's survival, a legal designation that would allow Japan to deploy its military. China sent a letter to the UN Secretary General yesterday that Japan had committed a grave violation of. international law and that China would firmly defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity. China maintains that Taiwan is Chinese territory. I'm Nora Rahm. NPR News in Washington.