A tangled up plane crash; Dems appeal to rural areas; your holiday movie guide

Plus, voters have had enough with years of massive rent hikes. [View this email online]( [NPR]( by Suzanne Nuyen Good morning. Inflation didn't stop buyers from shopping until they dropped this Black Friday — at least online. Sales from online shopping racked up a record [$9.12 billion](. Here's what we're following. 🥇 First up [The small plane, pictured, can be seen trapped among the power lines as passengers remain stranded roughly 100 feet in the air.]( Pete Piringer Talk about a Thanksgiving travel nightmare. Two people have been rescued from a plane after it [crashed into a transmission tower]( in Maryland yesterday evening. Two people were trapped in the tangled-up plane for hours and residents in the area experienced power outages. Even passengers who weren't tangled in transmission towers didn't have much luck with post-Thanksgiving travel: More than [4,200 flights]( were delayed and another 109 were canceled as of Sunday afternoon. Democrats have usually failed in modern times to motivate the rural voting base. But a better-than-expected midterm performance indicates candidates in key toss-up and open races may have [fared better among the rural population]( than previously believed. These voters could create new battlegrounds in 2024. ➡️ Republicans won big this year in Florida, and some experts say its days as the biggest swing state could be over. But [left-leaning groups aren't convinced](. The 19-year-old white gunman who killed 10 Black people and injured three others at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., is expected to [plead guilty to state murder charges](. He also faces 27 charges at the federal level, which could carry the death penalty. --------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter continues after sponsor message --------------------------------------------------------------- 📷 Picture show [Mohammad Hashim, a former officer in the Afghan National Army, now picks apples for a living.]( Claire Harbage/NPR People who enlisted in the Afghan National Army and fought against the Taliban are now living fraught lives under Taliban rule. They put their lives on the line for their country, but now they can't find a way out of Afghanistan and are working menial jobs, sometimes moving locations every few days in [fear for their safety](. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🎧 Today’s listen [Tenant activists from around the country rally outside the White House on Nov. 16. They want the Biden administration to regulate rent increases on federally-backed housing.]( Jennifer Ludden/NPR Years of rent hikes that outpaced wages and inflation have revived a push for rent control, fueled by anger and desperation, across the country. Midterm voters in several cities approved ballot measures to cap rents, but economists warn that they could actually reduce affordable housing overall. 🎧 [Listen to their reasoning]( or [read the story here](. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🛑 Before you go [( Scott Everett White/Netflix - Gingerbread and Santa & Muppets, oh my! We've got your definitive [holiday movie guide](. - Thousands of Green Sprouts toddler sippy cups are being recalled because the base of some of the products can break off, e[xposing a dot of solder that contains lead](. - About 1.8 million more chickens must be killed in Nebraska to prevent the spread of a [highly pathogenic bird flu virus](. More than 50 million birds have already been killed nationwide because of the outbreak. - Elon Musk says Twitter's new verification program will return this week, with manual, verified, [color-coded]( accounts. --------------------------------------------------------------- Stream your local NPR station. Visit NPR.org to find your local station stream. [Find a Station]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can [sign up here](. Looking for more great content? [Check out all of our newsletter offerings]( — including Music, Politics, Health and more! You received this message because you're subscribed to Daily News emails. This email was sent by National Public Radio, Inc., 1111 North Capitol Street NE, Washington, DC 20002 [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( [NPR logo]