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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President-elect Donald Trump is moving rapidly to put together his leadership team. He's filling a number of key positions, including nominating an Army veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his new Pentagon chief.
He does have a military background. He's a major in the Army National Guard. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and he's written about the military, including a recent book, The War on Warriors, where he argues that U.S. troops have been poorly served by military leaders who have become too liberal in his view.
He's a staunch supporter of Trump when he's on Fox, and he has on many occasions argued in defense of U.S. troops who've been accused of war crimes.
NPR's Greg Myrie. Other major picks pending Senate approval include John Ratcliffe to head the CIA. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is his ambassador to Israel. and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to run the Department of Homeland Security.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, entrepreneur and Republican primary candidate, will lead a new government agency being called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. An apparent wink to the cryptocurrency by the same name and the meme of a Shiba Inu in announcing the creation of a new government agency whose purpose is to reduce the size of government.
Trump called it the Manhattan Project of Our Time. On the campaign trail, Trump spoke of creating a role in the federal government for Musk. Ramaswamy campaigned on cutting 75 percent of the federal workforce. Representatives from around the world spoke at the COP29 UN climate negotiations in Azerbaijan today.
Several island nations called on wealthier countries to help those on the front lines cope with climate change. More from NPR's Nate Perez.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Moore Motley told the conference that the world is in the middle of a climate crisis. These extreme weather events that the world is facing daily suggest that humanity and the planet are hurtling towards catastrophe.
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