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Senate leaders have reached a budget pact to increase spending for the Pentagon and domestic programs, offering a reprieve from fiscal fights that have been a cloud over Capitol Hill.

As part of Morning Edition's Best of the Decade series, in which artists and writers talk about their favorite books, music and movies of the 2010s, we hear from Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites.

About 14,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan. U.S. representatives have been negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban and President Trump has said he wants to cut down the U.S. presence there.

An Iowa woman made it to the polls on Election Day despite spending the night in the ER with stomach pains. And a North Carolina woman continued a tradition that was started by her mother.

There's a long waiting list to get into public housing in Cleveland. At last count, the list ran to about 19,000 people. That's about one out of 20 city residents, all waiting to get apartments at places like Woodhill Homes. And the number doesn't include the Housing Choice Voucher program, formerly Section 8, where people get a subsidy to rent an apartment on the private market. Another 10,000 people wait on the list for that.

Ascension All Saints Hospital in Racine was on lockdown "out of an abundance of caution" following the shooting, the hospital said.

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In addition to the two fatalities, the driver injured about 20 people in the western city of Muenster, police say, then killed himself.

In St. Joseph, Berrien County, a deputy sheriff and bystander were wounded. The gunman was also shot and killed.

One of Ella Fitzgerald's biggest strengths was her formidable skill with scatting, and so it seems necessary to demonstrate that right out of the gate....