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A shopper pushes two carts during last year's Black Friday sale at a Best Buy store in Overland Park, Kan. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption

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Roll your eyes, but Black Friday's still got it. So here's what to look for

Americans say Black Friday is overhyped, but nearly 1 in 5 still plan to do most of their shopping then. This holiday season is expected to break shopping records.

A shopper pushes two carts during last year's Black Friday sale at a Best Buy store in Overland Park, Kan. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption

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Roll your eyes, but Black Friday's still got it. So here's what to look for

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Why does Apple TV+ have so many of the best streaming shows you've never heard of?

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Jose Grajeda and daughter, Victoria. "If I wanted to go to sleep as a child, I would go cuddle with my mom and she would give me piojito," he says — Spanish for "little lice." The late Peruvian linguist Martha Hidlebrandt described piojito as "gently scratching the scalp of a child as if he were being relieved of the itching of imaginary lice" — hence the name. Jessica Lutz/for NPR hide caption

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You don't need words to calm a grumpy kid. Parents around the world use a magic touch

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