Subsequent steps for Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. And, polar vortex to envelop the U.S.

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The Israeli safety cupboard assembly to vote on a ceasefire cope with Hamas is ready for right this moment. The settlement would halt greater than 15 months of preventing in Gaza. The assembly comes two days after mediators introduced the deal and a day after some ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cupboard delayed the vote.

• 🎧 After the cupboard vote, it can nonetheless should be authorised by the bigger authorities and it might nonetheless be challenged within the Israeli Supreme Court docket, NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf tells Up First. It could possibly be a number of days till the ceasefire really goes into impact. It was supposed to start on Sunday, however it could possibly be Monday. Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned Hamas had last-minute modifications to the deal that wanted to be labored via, however Hamas denied that. With no ceasefire at the moment in place, Israeli airstrikes have continued in Gaza. Over 100 Palestinians have been killed for the reason that deal’s announcement Wednesday evening, in response to Gaza Civil Protection.

The U.S. Supreme Court docket is predicted to rule quickly on the looming TikTok ban. The regulation banning the app nationwide, handed by Congress and signed by President Biden, will take impact in two days. TikTok customers, backed by the corporate, need the Supreme Court docket to weigh in, saying the ban is unconstitutional.

• 🎧 NPR’s Bobby Allyn says when he was protecting the Supreme Court docket’s oral arguments final week, Justices appeared skeptical of TikTok’s argument {that a} ban violates free speech. TikTok has requested the court docket to remain the ruling till President-elect Donald Trump is in workplace. Trump has promised to avoid wasting the app and there are a selection of how he might do this. He might push off the ban’s begin date and minimize a deal for promoting the app off or simply inform his administration to again off the regulation.
• ➡️ American TikTok customers are flooding the Chinese language social media app RedNote. Here is what we learn about it.

A polar vortex will usher in frigid temperatures and life-threatening situations for thousands and thousands of People this weekend and into subsequent week. In the course of the winter, the polar vortex, which is an space of low stress and chilly air that surrounds the Earth’s poles, can increase. Areas just like the South and Mid-Atlantic, that are unaccustomed to freezing, is not going to be spared. Trump’s second swearing-in on Monday will characteristic the coldest air of the season in Washington, D.C. It’s anticipated to be the coldest Inauguration Day since President Ronald Reagan’s in 1985 when, by midday, temperatures solely reached 7 levels, in response to historic information.

25 targets for 2025

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Cannot resolve on a decision for 2025? NPR’s Life Equipment has skilled guides to make any aim a actuality. We’ll share a number of of them each week this month. View all 25 guides right here.

When our houses are at their messiest, we are able to really feel disgrace. Do not forget that this isn’t an ethical failing. You do not exist to serve your house; it’s the opposite, says KC Davis, a licensed therapist and creator of Methods to Preserve Home Whereas Drowning. Davis has a “5 Issues Tidying Methodology” to revive a messy room.

• 🧽 In any house, there are solely 5 issues: trash, dishes, laundry, issues which have a spot, and issues that do not. Sort out them on this order.
• 🧽 Seize a trash bag or can and transfer across the room amassing rubbish, however do not take it out but. Proceed to work on this till the house is livable once more.
• 🧽 Collect all of the soiled dishes and discover a place to pile them. It may be a sink or perhaps a laundry basket with out holes within the backside.
• 🧽 Accumulate laundry that is mendacity round. Strive to not get caught on this step and put it apart to be washed later.

Try the remainder of the steps that can assist you declutter earlier than cleansing.

Life Equipment has a number of extra guides that can assist you navigate life abilities in 2025. Try a few of them right here:

Weekend picks

Clockwise from the top-left: Grand Theft Auto 6, Murderer’s Creed Shadows, Break up Fiction, Metroid Prime 4: Past.

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

🍿 Motion pictures: Make room for these eight underseen and off-the-beaten-path motion pictures from 2024 that did not have massive names, massive studios and massive advertising departments behind them.

📺 TV: Betty Gilpin performs a mother decided to get her and her son throughout the frontier within the Western sequence American Primeval. Alongside the way in which, they get caught up in a brewing battle between the federal authorities and a Mormon militia.

📚 Books: Listed below are 12 books that, when you end, you simply have to inform somebody about. They might make an awesome addition to your guide membership’s lineup.

🎵 Music: In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., pianist Lara Downes examines how musicians have adopted in his footsteps. Take heed to the playlist that includes a lot of them, together with Bob Dylan, Odetta and Sam Cooke.

🎮 Video games: Try NPR’s 25 most-anticipated video games to be launched this 12 months.

❓ Quiz: Wow! One other week, one other excellent rating for me. Do you assume you may match that?

3 issues to know earlier than you go

President Biden speaks throughout a White Home occasion on this Jan. 5, 2025 file photograph.

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1. President Biden introduced that he’s commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 folks convicted of non-violent drug crimes, who’re serving considerably longer sentences than they might obtain right this moment.
2. Hino Motors, a Toyota subsidiary that produces industrial vehicles, has pleaded responsible to submitting false emissions information to regulators for greater than 100,000 heavy-duty vehicles. The corporate pays $1.6 billion in fines and penalties.
3. Conan O’Brien will obtain the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in March. Previous recipients of this award embrace Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Hart.

This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.