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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as it continued discussion of the new, bipartisan immigration overhaul. She defended her department's procedures for screening immigrants in the wake of the Boston marathon bombings.

With an unemployment rate now estimated at more than 50 percent, people in Gaza are desperate for work. An unemployment office faces large crowds when jobs are announced.

Lawmakers and President Trump are returning to town after prospects for an immigration deal dimmed at the end of last week. Congress also faces a Friday deadline to avert a government shutdown.

Originally published under a pseudonym, Banville's Quirke mystery series follows a troubled Dublin coroner who dwells in the basement morgue of a hospital.

Developed countries promised poorer nations $100 billion a year in money to help countries deal with global warming — and get off fossil fuels. But that money isn't nearly enough.

Earlier in November, the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees subpoenaed Hunter Biden demanding he testify behind closed doors. Now, he's telling Congress he's willing to testify, but in public.

NPR's A Martinez talks to USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan about the tennis world signaling it could cut business with China if questions over Peng Shuai's disappearance weren't answered.

Hezbollah and Hamas have buried their slain leaders. The leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said the war in Gaza had now entered a new phase.

Congress may not have a spending deadline this December, but they do still have a long to-do list before the holidays.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. James Campbell, an expert on childhood infectious diseases, about the CDC's new messaging on the relationship between vaccines and autism.