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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Biden confirms the governments of Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a ceasefire deal. He says the U.S.-brokered truce is designed to end the deadliest conflict between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in decades. Effective at 4 a.m. tomorrow local time, the fighting across the Lebanese-Israeli border will end, will end.
This is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities. Biden says the deal bars the Hezbollah infrastructure from being rebuilt. President-elect Trump's incoming border czar Tom Homan paid a visit to the southern U.S. border today. Along with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Eagle Pass, Homan pledged the incoming administration would follow through on its plans to tighten immigration. Let me be clear. There is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border.
Trump cites illegal migration as well as the illegal trafficking of drugs such as fentanyl to the U.S. for his push to impose steep tariffs on China as well as trade partners in North America. In Canada, Ontario's premier says Trump's threat to level a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods feels like a family member stabbing you right in the heart. Trump says a 25 percent tariff will also extend to Mexico and China will be hit with an additional 10 percent.
Here's NPR's Jackie Northam. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods is, quote, the biggest threat we've ever seen. Ford said it will hurt Canadians as well as American workers and employers.
Trump says the steep tariffs are to halt drugs and immigrants flooding across U.S. borders. But it could have a boomerang effect. Canada and the U.S. are each other's largest trade partners, with nearly $3 billion worth of goods and services crossing the border each day. If Canada retaliates, it could drive up the costs of vehicles, construction materials, and gas in the U.S. Canada supplies more than half of U.S. crude imports. Jackie Northam, NPR News.
Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon has called to limit women's roles in the military. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports groups that support female troops are objecting. Pete Hexeth says women should not serve in combat roles and that increasing diversity has lowered standards. Senior Pentagon officials have shot back that women have served successfully in combat since before it was allowed in 2015.
And with military recruiting under pressure, retired Colonel Ellen Herring says the force can't afford to lose battle-tested troops. One of the big initial effects would be that the combat arms would lose over 3,000 soldiers. How are they going to fill that hole?
it creates like a huge vacuum in the combat branches. The leading organization combating sexual assault in the military, Protect Our Defenders, has also called on Congress not to confirm Hegseth, who was accused of a sexual assault in 2017, an encounter Hegseth says was consensual. Quill Lawrence, NPR News. It's NPR.
The U.S. air travel system is bracing for what could be the busiest Thanksgiving holiday on record. NPR's Joel Rose reports transportation security officials expect to screen more than 18 million people between now and Monday. The Transportation Security Administration is forecasting a 6 percent increase in the number of travelers passing through airport screening checkpoints compared to last year.
TSA Administrator David Pekoske says that's no surprise. The agency has been seeing record travel volume since the spring. This year has already been the busiest in TSA history, and we have screened in excess of 3 million passengers in a day for the first time ever. Pekoske says the single-day record for most passengers was set in July, but that record could fall this Sunday, when more than 3 million people are expected to pass through TSA checkpoints. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
Rivian Automotive's plans for a plant in Georgia are now back on. Today, the Biden administration announced it was lending $6.6 billion to the electric vehicle maker. Two years ago, as a startup, Rivian was financially unable to meet production targets and halted construction of the Georgia plant in March.
Dictionary.com is not being reserved or modest or shy about its word of the year in 2024. It is demure. Dictionary.com says the word demure experienced a meteoric rise in usage this year, up nearly 1,200% in digital web media alone, largely because of a TikToker, Jules Lebrun's popularization of the phrase very demure, very mindful. This is NPR News.
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