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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Nearly a week since the election, President-elect Trump's filling more key posts in his incoming administration include Border Czar, Trump's former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Chief Tom Homan. Homan will be tasked with carrying out Trump's plan of mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants.
And Trump's nominating Congresswoman Elise Stefanik for U.S. ambassador to the U.N., signaling Trump's pledge to... to strongly support Israel on the world stage against criticism of the war in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a delay in his corruption trial at home due to Israel's expanding Mideast wars.
Netanyahu's corruption trial has gone on for more than four years. He's charged with granting favors to media moguls in exchange for positive press coverage and lavish gifts. Netanyahu denies wrongdoing, and he's scheduled to take the witness stand for the first time on December 2nd. But his lawyers are asking the court for a two-and-a-half month delay.
They say Netanyahu could not properly prepare because of Israel's assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah officials, Gaza hostage negotiations, Israel's intensified war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and strikes by Iran and Israel on each other's territory. Critics say Netanyahu cannot properly lead the country while on trial and should step down. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The November US elections resulted in a record number of women who will serve as governors in the US.
Here's NPR's Amy Held. Thirteen women will serve as governors next year, breaking the record of 12 set two years ago. After Kelly Ayotte won the governor's race in New Hampshire, the new record was inevitable with two women running in that race.
And while the increased visibility is helping normalize seeing women in high office, the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers finds women remain underrepresented in political leadership. with money, family responsibilities, and party influence among the persistent barriers against increasing their political power.
Through history, 49 women have served in their state's chief executive office. 18 states have never had a female governor. Amy Held, NPR News.
Harriet Tubman is now being recognized as a one-star brigadier general in Maryland's National Guard. A ceremony was held this Veterans Day during which Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of general in her home state. The legendary abolitionist was the first woman to oversee a U.S. military operation during wartime. Here's Governor Wes Moore.
Today, it's Ms. Tubman that brought us together. And so she is doing in death what she did in life.
Morris said, quote, today we celebrate one of the greatest authors of the American story. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up more than 300 points at 44,298. It's NPR News. Under the first Trump term, the GOP repeatedly tried and failed to dismantle Obamacare. NPR's Selena Simmons-Stefan reports on what the party's up against if it tries again.
More Americans have health insurance at the moment than ever before. Enrollment in healthcare.gov, those Obamacare health plans, is really high right now at more than 21 million people. That's almost doubled since President Biden took office. And the insurance industry, hospitals and doctors groups, they all like that. They're going to be very resistant to major changes.
And regular people could mobilize again to resist changes to the ACA.
NPR's Selena Simmons-Stefan reporting. The Florida Department of Education released a list of more than 700 books over the weekend that were, quote, "...removed or discontinued from districts throughout the state last school year." That's an increase of nearly 400 books from the list they released a year ago. Central Florida Public Media's Danielle Pryor has more.
Among the list of books removed last year are classics like Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and newer favorites like Looking for Alaska by John Green. Florida Freedom to Read project director Stefana Farrell calls the list an undercount, but she says she's worried removing the books hurts classroom teaching.
A lot of them removed many, many books, including classic literature. and literature that regularly appears on the AP exams and prepares our students for college-level coursework. We're removing all of these books.
Governor Ron DeSantis says the state of Florida is not banning books, but removing titles that are, quote, pornographic and inappropriate for kids. For NPR News, I'm Danielle Pryor in Orlando. It's NPR News.
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