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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 Giles Snyder. President-elect Donald Trump has named two men to post in his administration who are expected to play a big role in defining immigration policy. Longtime advisor Stephen Miller is returning to the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff,

and Trump has tapped Tom Holman to be his border czar. Holman is a veteran of the first Trump administration. NPR 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. Homan was the architect of Trump's zero-tolerance policy, which separated thousands of immigrant kids from their parents at the US southern border. Homan 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, Homan 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. The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Washington state congresswoman, Pramila Jayapal, says it's been a stressful week for Democrats, but that her caucus is ready to battle the GOP. We will stand up as we always have done for justice, peace, and equality, and we will not allow the hateful architects of Project 2025 to run amok. Jaya Paul speaking at a news conference as Congress returns to Washington this week for a lame duck session with the potential for a GOP-led Congress in the cards when President -elect Trump takes office in January.

Republicans will control the Senate, but control of the House remains an open question. Democrats appear to have flipped a House seat. The AP has not yet called the race in the Los Angeles area between Republican Congressman Mike Garcia and Democrat George Whitesides, but in a statement, Garcia says he has congratulated Whitesides. A new study suggests the world has nearly closed the door on a major goal to limit global warming. The research comes as international climate negotiations are underway this week. NPR's Alejandra Burundu reports. A new accounting published in the journal Nature

Geoscience suggests the earth is teetering close to having warmed 1.5 degrees, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. That's what the historic Paris Climate Agreement aimed to keep global warming below. Scientists use a new method to measure warming. They hope it will be useful for ongoing climate negotiations like those happening now in Baku. Andrew Jarvis is a climate scientist at Lancaster University in the UK and worked on the study. It should remind us that we should probably double down on our efforts to make sure that we really do honor the Paris agreement and stay below two degrees. If the goal is breached, Travis says, ambitious climate action will be even more important. Alejandro Burunda, NPR News. This is NPR. Authorities in

Alabama have a man in custody following the shooting over the weekend at Tuskegee University. They say the 25-year-old was taken into custody while leaving the scene and had been found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. Officials have not accused him of using the gun in the shooting but have charged him with possession of a machine gun. The shooting left one man dead and at least 16 others injured, a dozen by gunfire. Detroit will soon become the largest U.S. city to accept cryptocurrency as payment for property taxes and other city fees.

Brianna Tensley of Member Station WDET reports. Detroiters will see the option to pay their property taxes with cryptocurrency through PayPal starting in mid 2025. Entrepreneurs and tech leaders had lobbied for the change. Nikhil Patel, deputy CFO and treasurer for the city of Detroit, says implementing the system will put Detroit at the forefront of enabling technologies like crypto and blockchain. We believe that this was a mechanism to at least signal to the market that Detroit is ready for those entrepreneurs to develop here and remove barriers for them doing so. Patel says the city will settle all crypto payments in U.S. dollars and will at no point hold cryptocurrency assets. For NPR News, I'm Breonna Tinsley in Detroit. The world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has hit a new record high. Part of a

rally across cryptocurrencies and related investments since Donald Trump won last week's election, the price topped $87,000 for the first time on Monday. I'm Joel Snyder. This is NPR News.