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Support for this podcast and the following message come from Autograph Collection Hotels, with over 300 independent hotels around the world, each exactly like nothing else. Autograph Collection is part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of hotel brands. Find the unforgettable at autographcollection.com. Live from NPR News, I'm Childe Snyder. The list of those teed up to serve in President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is growing. The latest is Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

Trump is expected to name him as his choice for Secretary of State. Trump has also selected a number of others, including Tom Homan, to be his quote, border czar. That's the title Trump gave Homan in a post on Truth Social. Homan served as acting director of immigration and customs enforcement or ICE for part of the first Trump administration. And here's Danielle Kurtzleben has more. In the Truth Social post, Trump said Homan will quote, be in charge of all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin. Homan has been emphatically supportive of Trump's mass deportation plans.

Here Homan was speaking at the Republican National Convention this summer. As a guy who spent 34 years deporting illegal aliens, I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of federal law, you better start packing now. Homan told CBS's 60 Minutes recently that he supports workplace raids to find and deport illegal immigrants. Danielle Kurtzlaven, NPR News. President-elect Trump has also named former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and longtime adviser Stephen Miller to be deputy chief of staff for policy. Exit

polls from last week's election show a variety of reasons why Americans voted the way they did. A major takeaway, higher prices. NPR's Scott Horsley reports when inflation rises, the politicians in power often pay for it. One of the biggest drivers for voters backing Donald Trump was inflation. It affects my budget and everyone I know because we're paying more for groceries. It's actually, it's shocking. That's Teresa Wolf, who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. We first spoke a few months ago, and she told me how unhappy she was

about the high cost of living. I called her back to hear how she's feeling after the election. I have to tell you, my first reaction was relief. Maziar Manove, who heads the Eurasia Group, has studied dozens of elections going back decades and found whenever there's a sustained period of high inflation, voters are twice as likely to lose faith in the people running the government. And Vice President Harris was saddled with that

incumbent label. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. Following the shooting over the weekend on the Alabama campus of Tuskegee University, the school's president, Dr. Mark Brown, says Tuskegee is no longer an open campus. Effective immediately, we require IDs for everyone to be displayed to enter campus and worn at all times while on campus. The shooting left an 18-year-old man dead and at least 16 others injured, a dozen by gunfire. Authorities have a 25-year-old man in custody. They say he was found leaving the scene with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. Authorities have not accused him of using the gun in the shooting but have charged him with

possession of a machine gun. This is NPR. Crews are battling wildfires on both coasts. Multiple small fires are burning in the northeast where a blaze in New York and New Jersey killed a parks employee over the weekend. Much larger fires are burning in California but crews are reporting progress against a wildfire northwest of Los Angeles and Ventura County. In Nevada evacuated residents have been allowed to return to their homes after a wind-whipped wildfire forced them to flee. At the UN Climate Change Summit in Azerbaijan, the Biden administration is trying to assure other countries that the U.S. will continue its transition to cleaner energy. NPR's Jeff Brady reports President-elect Trump has said he will again pull the U.S. out of a landmark climate agreement and boost fossil fuels.

This year's U.N. climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan, were meant to focus on wealthy countries paying to help developing nations deal with climate change. But the U.S. election result also is a big topic. President Biden's top climate advisor, John Podesta, tried to be optimistic. Are we facing new headwinds? Absolutely. But will we revert back to the energy system of the 1950s? No way. Podesta says the country's transition away from fossil fuels has started with tens of billions of dollars allocated and won't be reversed. Jeff Brady, NPR News. The financial markets in Asia mostly lower in Tuesday trading despite Monday's rally

on Wall Street. Japan's benchmark Nikkei has given up gains in morning trading and is now down 0.7%. This is NPR News. This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University is committed to moving the world forward, working to tackle some of society's biggest challenges, nine campuses, one purpose, creating tomorrow today. More at iu.edu.