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Right now’s high tales
President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former impartial presidential candidate, to run the Division of Well being and Human Providers. On the marketing campaign path, Kennedy, an environmental advocate and vaccine skeptic, has made claims that he’ll drastically reduce rates of chronic disease in simply two years. He has unfold a number of conspiracy theories together with claims that Wi-Fi causes most cancers and faculty shootings are attributable to antidepressants.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally for Donald Trump at Macomb Group Faculty in Warren, Mich., on Nov. 1. Trump has now tapped Kennedy for his administration.
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- 🎧 “The thought of somebody who has actively sowed misinformation about vaccines being in command of the federal government’s scientific analysis and public well being businesses actually horrifies lots of people in these fields,” NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin tells Up First. The Senate must vote to substantiate Kennedy for this position. Kennedy’s marketing campaign web site says he helps abortion entry. Simmons-Duffin says it will likely be attention-grabbing to see how that opinion plays out among Republicans who’re wanting to curtail abortion entry federally.
Bond buyers say elements of Trump’s financial agenda are alarming. Although the inventory market surged after Trump’s victory, the bond market has been promoting off. The U.S. authorities sells bonds to buyers like banks and different nations. Bond sell-off can have an effect on issues like rates of interest and inflation. If rates of interest are low, your organization and authorities can borrow cash cheaply. If charges climb, issues will get costly quick. The bond market also can affect curiosity funds on bank cards, auto loans and mortgages.
- 🎧 Though Trump has promised to decrease inflation, bond buyers consider he may do the other, NPR’s Rafael Nam says. Trump is proposing a variety of tariffs that may make issues that the U.S. imports like garments, toys, footwear, and tech devices costlier. He additionally needs to exempt employees in eating places and different places from paying taxes on suggestions. These items could make the country’s finances worse. Bond buyers wield energy by their cash, Nam says. If the curiosity the U.S. pays on its bonds surges, the monetary hit to the nation can unfold worry to different markets, like shares.
President Biden is assembly with leaders from the Asia-Pacific area, together with China’s President Xi Jinping, in Lima, Peru. The 2 will sit down tomorrow in what’s anticipated to be the ultimate summit between the leaders earlier than Biden leaves workplace.
- 🎧 The assembly has two primary missions: Biden needs to cement the coverage cooperation he feels he has been in a position to obtain on this relationship and emphasize the significance of protecting the traces of communication open. NPR’s Asma Khalid says a type of traces particularly is military-to-military communication. The White Home feels that competitors with China is going to be the defining issue for what the world appears to be like like in many years to return.
Particular collection
Gender rights activists display outdoors the U.S. Supreme Court docket on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Lots of the bans states handed this yr towards gender-affirming well being look after youth are in federal court docket and could also be on their option to the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
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Gender rights activists display outdoors the U.S. Supreme Court docket on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Lots of the bans states handed this yr towards gender-affirming well being look after youth are in federal court docket and could also be on their option to the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
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Every day this week, Morning Version will dive deep into one of many guarantees President-elect Trump has made for day one in all his administration.
Trump has promised to signal an government order instructing each federal company to cease the promotion of intercourse or gender transition at any age. Jamie Taylor, a professor on the College of Toledo who has written in regards to the transgender rights motion, talks about what the manager order may do and the way well being care suppliers will probably be impacted. She additionally dives into how transgender athletes could be impacted by adjustments to Title IX, a federal civil rights regulation that prohibits sex-based discrimination at faculties and education schemes that obtain authorities funding.
Weekend picks
Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans in Pink One.
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Take a look at what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Motion pictures: The vacation season involves an emergency halt when Santa is kidnapped in Red One. It is as much as his head of safety and a ne’er-do-well to save lots of Christmas.
📺 TV: In Say Nothing, a girl was kidnapped and killed by members of the Irish Republican Military. A long time later, one of many ladies concerned in her disappearance grapples together with her recollections.
📚 Books: NPR e book critic Maureen Corrigan discovered two books this week that delivered beauty, inspiration and humor: Water, Water by Billy Collins and The Canine Who Adopted the Moon by James Norbury.
🎵 Music: Composer Laura Kaminsky’s intimate new opera, Lucidity, revolves round Lili, an getting old opera singer portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, who offers with the consequences of reminiscence loss.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
The California Division of Insurance coverage says detectives discovered this bear costume on the residence of the suspects accused of orchestrating faux bear assaults on their automobiles.
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- 4 Los Angeles residents allegedly used a life-sized bear costume to stage assaults on their automobiles to defraud multiple insurance companies out of a six-figure payout.
- Have you ever ever had a dispute with family members over the vacations? If that’s the case, we need to hear about how you navigated it. Your response could possibly be featured within the Up First e-newsletter on Nov. 24.
- NBC introduced yesterday that Craig Melvin will substitute Hoda Kotb because the new anchor on the Today present.
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
