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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 in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Biden says he's lost a dear friend with the death of former President Jimmy Carter. The country's 39th president died yesterday

at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 100, more than a year after entering hospice care. Carter was elected president in 1976 and later won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. NPR's Don Gagne has this remembrance. Few took Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter seriously when he jumped into the race for president. The former peanut farmer announced his candidacy almost two years before election day. There was a major headline on the editorial page of the Atlantic Constitution that said

Jimmy Carter is running for what? Carter was an outsider, capitalizing on distrust of Washington in the immediate aftermath of the Watergate scandal. After emerging from a crowded Democratic primary field, he narrowly defeated President Gerald Ford in the general election, only to lose to another Washington outsider named Ronald Reagan four years later. Don Gagne, NPR News. Former President Carter's state funeral is scheduled for January 9th at Washington National

Cathedral. President Biden has declared the day to be a national day of mourning. Investigators in South Korea are trying to learn why a passenger jet crashed yesterday south of Seoul. The accident killed nearly all of the 181 people aboard. Families of victims have come to Muon Airport. NPR's Anthony Kuhn says many are in small tents inside the departures hall. Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn,

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NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, NPR's Anthony The Red Cross church groups, volunteer groups are all here. And now that all the people have been accounted for, and it's clear that there were only two survivors, the focus is on taking care of the bereaved and digging the facts out about how this crash happened. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reporting. Deaths in the United States that are linked to deep cold nearly doubled from 2017 to 2022. That's even as annual temperatures rose.

For member station WBUR, Martha Bebinger reports on a study in the journal JAMA. The findings may be counterintuitive, but researchers say the US is seeing periods of extreme heat and cold as the atmosphere warms. Study co-author Michael Liu says there's been a lot of focus on health risks linked to heat, but cold is dangerous as well.

And I think that's especially important as we move into the winter season, and many if not most of these deaths are entirely preventable as well. Liu says many factors may have contributed to more deaths from cold. The population of adults aged 50 or older who are less able to withstand deep cold is rising. And at the same time, there's an increase in the number of Americans who do not have stable housing. For NPR News, I'm Martha Biebinger in Boston. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Stormy weather, including tornadoes, raked parts of the South over the weekend, killing several people. Tornadoes touched down in parts of Texas and Mississippi.

SpaceX is planning its next launch of Starlink satellites after midnight tonight eastern time from Florida. The satellites provide internet to places where it's hard to get. NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports SpaceX has carried out a record number of launches in 2024. SpaceX conducted more than 130 launches in 2024. Most have been of its workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9. It's being used to deploy well over a thousand Starlink satellites to provide global internet service. This year, SpaceX also ferried astronauts to and from the International Space Station, conducted the first commercial spacewalk by

a billionaire, and carried out several tests of the largest rocket ever built, which the company's founder, Elon Musk, hopes will someday carry people to Mars. Next year looks just as busy. The company is expected to dominate the commercial launch market in 2025. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News. Award-winning actress Linda Lavin has died of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, according to her representative. She was 87 years old. Lavin won a Tony Award for the play Broadway Bound. Later, she won two Golden Globes. Those were, for some of

her most beloved work. She played the title character on the TV show Alice. Launched in 1976, the show featured a widowed woman who raised a son and worked as a waitress in Phoenix. Lavon's funeral services have not been announced. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News.