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Anas Baba, a producer for NPR, has been reporting on the war from his base in Gaza. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption

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Gaza's 34-hour phone and internet blackout, as told in voice memos

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Telegram has removed popular Hamas-linked accounts from the messaging service after a pro-Israel advocacy organization sent letters to Apple and Google asking the tech companies to pressure Telegram to take down the channels. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption

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People in Acapulco are trying to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Otis

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Funding for Ukraine and Israel is causing rifts in Congress

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The latest on Israel's bombing of the largest Gazan refugee camp

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Globally, women are cooking twice as many meals as men

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'Are we not equal human beings?' asks Palestinian doctor demanding cease-fire

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivers remarks at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. House Republicans have since introduced a bill that would give some $14 billion to Israel and cut that same amount from the IRS. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption

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Afghan families ride on a truck heading to a border crossing in Torkham, Pakistan, Tuesday, before the expiration of a Pakistani deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. Pakistan's crackdown has worried thousands of Afghans in the country awaiting relocation to the United States under a special refugee program since fleeing the Taliban takeover. Muhammad Sajjad/AP hide caption

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Rockets and "light bombs" are seen over the Gaza strip on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, from Sderot, Israel. As Israel's response to Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks entered its fourth week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war would be a long one and would amount to a "second war of independence." Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption

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Up First briefing: Israel won't agree to a cease-fire; how tech messes with our senses

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Palestinians dig through rubble looking for survivors in a crater following a strike on a refugee camp in Jabalia on the northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. Fadi Alwhidi/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Ángel Marín, his wife Carolina and their 4-year-old son, Matías, left Venezuela to try to start a life in the U.S. John Otis for NPR hide caption

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Why one family is joining a historic wave of Venezuelans migrating to the U.S.

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