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11-18-20 midday news

Two Republican Michigan lawmakers are invited to the White House as Trump contests election results. We discuss if testing is a safe strategy for holiday travel. And, Mike Pompeo visits Israel.

The Fergus Library in Ontario recently received a copy of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens in their return box, which they estimate is more than 50 years overdue.

Amid a nationwide surge of COVID-19 cases, we hear from the state of Texas. NPR's Noel King talks to Lizette Torres, a registered nurse in El Paso, Texas.

Steve McQueen's powerful anthology consists of five films, each telling a different story about the experiences of Black men and women in London's West Indian community.

The state plans to run 3 wolf control programs this winter and coming spring. That’s fewer than it has during most of the past 2 decades, as some programs…

NPR's Scott Simon remembers historian and travel writer Jan Morris, who died Friday at age 94.

Obama says democracy has been "strained" — but not broken — by President Trump. Justin Chang reviews Small Axe. Author Jon Wiener says the Chicago 7 trial reflected "all the conflicts in America."

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with director Kamilah Forbes about her new HBO special, Between the World and Me, which is a visual interpretation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' best-selling book.

NPR's Leila Fadel discusses the looming cutoff of federal pandemic unemployment benefits with Kate McAfee and Mario Sandoval, who were both laid off, and researcher Elizabeth Pancotti.