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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The country is celebrating America's veterans today and remembering fallen service members. taps at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. The Veterans Day ceremony was President Biden's final as Commander-in-Chief. He took the occasion to remember his late son, Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.
Our son, Beau Biden, deployed in Iraq for a year with the Delaware National Guard. I still remember the day he asked me to pin his bars on him. He stood ramrod straight. How proud Jill and I and our entire family felt Like so many of you, we also remember how hard it was when he was deployed. Empty seats at the dinner table.
Vice President Harris joined Biden to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It was their first public appearance together since Harris lost the election. President-elect Donald Trump has announced his administration's border czar. His name is Tom Homan, the former acting director of the Department of Homeland Security under the first Trump administration.
NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.
Tom Homan's appointment is not a surprise. Trump had suggested he would be in charge of fulfilling the campaign promise of mass deportations. Hohmann was the architect of Trump's zero-tolerance policy, which separated thousands of immigrant kids from their parents at the US southern border.
Hohmann has already suggested that deporting families together, including children who are US citizens but whose parents are undocumented, would ensure no families are separated this time. Under President Obama, Hohmann led enforcement and removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During that administration, ICE carried out a record number of deportations.
Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Austin.
Haiti's transitional government has decided to oust the prime minister and appoint a new one. And Pierre Zeta-Peralta reports a prime minister says they don't have the authority to fire him.
Haiti's transitional council was already adrift. They had control of a Kenyan-led security force, but lacking in legitimacy and facing accusations of corruption. They were paralyzed, unable to fight the gangs that have taken control of most of Port-au-Prince. Over the weekend, the majority of the council voted to oust Prime Minister Gary Kniell.
In an open letter, Kniell says the constitution allows only parliament to fire the Prime Minister. And at the moment, Haiti has no parliament. Keneal adds that the agreement that brought the transitional council to power allows the council to appoint but not remove a prime minister. No matter how this resolves, what's clear is that it plunges a country already in chaos, closer to anarchy.
Eder Pralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
This is NPR. Political upheavals playing out in Serbia, where the government's facing public backlash over The deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a railway station earlier this month. Protesters rallied today in Belgrade, demanding arrests and resignations of top officials. They blame the collapse that killed 14 people on widespread corruption and shoddy renovation of the building in Novi Sad.
Some resolution in Japan today. Prime Minister Shigeru Ueshiba will remain in power. He survived a parliamentary runoff vote, even though his coalition lost its majority in the lower house last month. Here's NPR's Anthony Kuhn.
No candidate won a majority of votes in the House of Representatives, so it came down to the first runoff vote in 30 years. The opposition could not unite around a single candidate either, so lawmakers voted for incumbent Shigeru Ishiba to stay on. Without a majority in Parliament, he'll have to scrape together enough votes to get individual bills and policies through the legislature.
Another challenge Ichiba faces is warding off tariffs that a second Trump administration could levy on Japanese exports. Ichiba is trying to arrange a meeting with the president-elect before or after a G20 summit in Brazil this month. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
COP 29, the UN's annual climate conference, is underway in Azerbaijan. The delegations will take the next two weeks to try to reach climate action agreements, including growing a fund to help developing countries the most vulnerable to climate change offset the impacts of pollution caused by the wealthiest countries on the planet. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News in Washington.
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