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Today’s high tales

Tens of hundreds of individuals are fleeing Gaza City on foot, and Israel has agreed to allow civilians stuck in northern Gaza to move south for a number of hours every day in what the Israeli authorities is asking humanitarian corridors. Israel has held temporary pauses all through the week. The journey south remains to be arduous, NPR’s Daniel Estrin tells Up First.

• NPR producer Anas Baba studies from Gaza that individuals are holding white flags as they stroll previous useless our bodies and Israeli tanks. Thirsty and panting with exhaustion, many inform him they don’t know where they’re going next. 
• This settlement isn’t the cease-fire many have been calling for, or a humanitarian pause. Here’s what those terms mean.

Check out npr.org/mideastupdates for extra protection, differing views and evaluation of this battle.

Palestinians with overseas passports wait to cross the Rafah Border Gate into Egypt.

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Palestinians with overseas passports wait to cross the Rafah Border Gate into Egypt.

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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will not seek reelection subsequent yr, complicating Democrats’ hopes of maintaining their already-slim majority within the Senate. Manchin wielded vital affect on key laws — and irked many individuals — in his occasion, as a reasonable from a pink state. His choice provides a bonus to Republicans searching for to flip that seat.

• NPR’s Dave Mistich studies from Morgantown that Manchin would have confronted a troublesome reelection battle, with two strong Republican candidates already within the race. He says Manchin’s departure is an enormous loss for Democrats in Republican-led West Virginia, which voted overwhelmingly for former President Donald Trump in each elections.
• There’s cause for each Democrats and Republicans to fret in regards to the 2024 elections, however it’s nonetheless early days, says NPR’s Domenico Montanaro.   

Migrant crossings alongside the U.S. southern border hit new highs this yr, as did the variety of displaced folks worldwide. NPR’s Jasmine Garsd frolicked in Tijuana, Mexico this week speaking with people who are increasingly desperate whereas ready for his or her immigration appointments. They embrace a Venezuelan medical scholar who has spent months dwelling in Mexican shelters and a Russian medical specialist fleeing the struggle together with his household.

• Garsd tells Morning Edition that individuals are nervous about discovering lodging and work, and probably dealing with xenophobia, as soon as within the U.S. She says all of the migrants she spoke with stated “it can’t be worse than where they come from.” 

Today’s pay attention

A 1497 woodcut printed in Strasburg, Germany, reveals a person being de-loused.

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A 1497 woodcut printed in Strasburg, Germany, reveals a person being de-loused.

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Lice have been hitchhiking on our heads for thus lengthy that they’ve recorded human historical past of their DNA. “We can think of human lice as heirlooms of our past,” says Marina Ascunce, a U.S. Department of Agriculture evolutionary geneticist. Her staff simply launched a examine revealing what lice can inform us about human migration to the Americas — and their analysis does not cease there. Listen to the story or read it here.

Weekend picks

Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi are Priscilla and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s new movie.

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Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi are Priscilla and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s new movie.

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Check out what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:

Movies: Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla tells the story of one in every of America’s most iconic {couples}, by means of the eyes of a teenage Priscilla Presley dwelling with Elvis at Graceland.

TV: In the Australian Paramount+ sequence Colin from Accounts, a real-life husband and spouse duo play two lonely strangers who bond after an accident leaves them with an injured canine and enormous veterinary payments.

Books: The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America is a set of cultural commentary on the state of Asian American representation in media. Author Jeff Yang describes it as “sort of like a cheer out loud.”

Music: Cher’s first album of authentic materials in a decade, “Christmas,” can also be her first vacation album. She spoke with NPR about her course of, collaborators and that point she jumped a freight practice as a toddler.

Games: Looking for a Thanksgiving group exercise? WarioWare: Move It! will rework your loved ones and mates into “squirming chaos imps,” writes NPR’s James Perkins Mastromarino.

Quiz: It’s been an enormous week for politics and animals. You’ll must be up-to-date on each to ace the ever-tricky NPR news quiz.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman performs in Carhaix-Plouguer, France, in 2006.

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Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman performs in Carhaix-Plouguer, France, in 2006.

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1. Tracy Chapman’s 1988 people anthem “Fast Car” was named Song of the Year at this week’s Country Music Awards, making her the first Black artist to win the award. 
2. Video chat website Omegle shuttered after greater than a decade, with its creator acknowledging some people misused the platform to “commit unspeakably heinous crimes.” 
3. Laura Eshelman was going by means of a troublesome time when she snapped at a person who requested her for cash on the road. His response moved her to tears.

This e-newsletter was edited by Olivia Hampton.