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end of year best of lists can be very revealing — in this case offering a peek into the world of our audience and what resonated with this year was filled with big news stories. the ones that grabbed the attention of npr one listeners, the ones they spent the most time listening to, included president trump's press conference with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki, and cnn's lawsuit seeking to reinstate correspondent jim acosta's white house press pas*.. government shuts down ahead of holiday over stalemate on border wall funding. a partial shutdown of the federal government began just after midnight saturday, after congress and president trump were unable to resolve an the stalemate comes just ahead of the christmas holiday period next week, though if a way forward is found over the weekend the impact could be minimal since monday and tuesday are already federal holidays.. democratic senator on whether impending government shutdown can be skirted. basketball is apparently being embraced by north korea as a fundamental part of its ideology. a newspaper there used a whole page earlier this week to endorse the sport, south korean newspaper chosun ilbo reported the north korean paper reportedly stated. we must rush to elevate the sport to global levels. there's no shortage of ideas about how to stop a drone, but as the past few days at london's gatwick airport show, the reality is far from wednesday night to friday morning, flights in and out of gatwick were halted after a small drone, or perhaps multiple drones, were spotted over the airfield. hundreds of flights were canceled and thousands of pas*engers saw their holiday travel plans grounded. japan's birthrate has dropped to a historic level, the lowest since data gathering began in 1899. experts and lawmakers to consider the economic and social repercussions. there's a new behemoth in the ongoing search for ever-larger prime numbers — and it's nearly 25 million digits long. a prime is a number that can be divided only by two other whole numbers: itself and 1. the newly discovered number is what's known as