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TikTok's CEO plans to tell the committee that it is working to protect U.S. users' data from Chinese government scrutiny. TikTok is pouring millions into lobbying to ease national security worries.

Soaring prices, lagging incomes and burdensome social security payments are the top issues for frustrated, cash-strapped voters. Stricter measures targeting foreign residents and visitors have also emerged as a key issue, with a surging right-wing populist party leading the campaign.

The agreement by the budget committee chairmen is no grand bargain. It's more like a minibargain. All the really hard stuff was sidestepped because the ideological rift between Washington Democrats and Republicans made it impossible to include those items.

Hamas freed two hostages on Monday, the Red Cross said. About 220 people remain hostages in Gaza. Meanwhile, more than 5,000 Palestinians have died in Israeli airstrikes, Gaza officials said.

The full weight of the recession has come bearing down on the labor market. Employers shed more than half a million jobs in November. The unemployment rate is now 6.7 percent and economists expect it to go significantly higher. Layoffs are accelerating in just about every industry.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov huddled on the sidelines of Arctic Council meetings in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Journalist Jon Ward talks about the chaos that led Kennedy to challenge Carter for the Democratic nomination — and the long-lasting damage it did to the party. Ward's new book is Camelot's End.

In a conversation with Morning Edition, Joe Kahn, executive editor of The New York Times, discussed the danger to free press under Trump and critiques of his newsroom from both the left and the right.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the ramifications of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.