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France is heralding the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. It helped broker alongside the U.S., which is expected to go into effect at this hour. Imperial Governor Beardsley reports President Emmanuel Macron held the deal in a video on social media. Macron said Israeli and Lebanese citizens would finally have a measure of peace, but the ceasefire is fragile. And he said people should not forget that war is still punishing Gaza and the hostages are still captive.
Macron, like President Biden, said the only way for a just and durable peace in the Middle East is a two-state solution. French analysts say the ceasefire with Hezbollah is a win for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because he was able to separate the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon and continue his war in Gaza.
Eleanor Beardsley in PR News, Paris. Officials in Mexico say they will impose retaliatory tariffs as President-elect Trump follows through on his threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods coming from Mexico and Canada. Emily Green has more. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said at her daily press conference on Tuesday that Trump's proposed tariffs would be self-defeating and especially devastating for U.S. carmakers with plants in Mexico, including General Motors and Ford.
She said, quote, any tariffs imposed by one side would likely prompt retaliatory tariffs, leading to risks for joint enterprises. Mexico and the U.S. are each other's top trading partners. Sheinbaum also dismissed Trump's claims that tariffs would curb illegal immigration or the trafficking of illegal drugs, an argument Trump made in calling for the tariffs. The head of Mexico's Senate asked on the social media site X what tariffs Mexico should impose on the U.S. to stop it from consuming drugs and illegally exporting guns south.
For NPR News, I'm Emily Green in Mexico City. President-elect Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon is called to limit women's roles in the military. NPR's Quayle 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. Stocks continued their record run up on Wall Street today ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The Dow rose 123 points to 44,860. The Nasdaq was up 119 points. You're listening to NPR.
U.S. scientists tracking the spread of bird flu say the U.S. is far from having the outbreak under control. Dairy herds in California are being hit hard, and health officials confirmed a child in the state has caught the virus. And Bears Will Stone has more. That case in California is especially troubling because there was no known exposure to an infected animal. And it comes on the heels of a teenager falling seriously ill from the virus in Canada.
Dr. Deborah Birx helped oversee the COVID-19 pandemic response during the first Trump administration and is now with the Bush Institute. She says the U.S. needs to be doing much more testing, both of animals and humans. We're making the same mistakes we made with COVID. I was hoping we would have learned from those mistakes by now. While there is still no evidence the bird flu virus is spreading easily between humans, scientists say there are indications it is adapting, in some cases, to better infect mammals.
Will Stone, NPR News. A judge at a hearing in New York told former Mayor Rudy Giuliani today to refrain from blurting things out in the courtroom unless he's a sworn witness. Judge responding to an outburst from Giuliani, who accused the judge of making wrong assumptions about him after ordering President-elect Donald Trump's former personal attorney to turn over assets to two Georgia poll workers who won a libel case against him. Judge today refused to delay a January 16th trial over the disposition of Giuliani's
Florida residents and World Series rings he owns. Crude oil futures prices moved lower, extending yesterday's losses amid some uncertainty about the Middle East. Oil fell 17 cents a barrel to 68.77 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.
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