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Hey, it's Aisha Harris from Pop Culture Happy Hour. If you love NPR podcasts, you'll want the new NPR Plus podcast bundle. Enjoy an all-you-can-eat selection of NPR Plus podcasts with sponsor-free listening and bonus episodes. Plus, you'll be supporting public radio. Check it out at plus.npr.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. President-elect Donald Trump has announced new nominations for his incoming government.

They include former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for attorney general. South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune has been elected as the incoming Senate Majority Leader. He spoke before the latest nominees were announced, but says all Trump nominees will receive a fair hearing. The Senate has a advise and consent role in the Constitution, so we will do everything we can to process his noms quickly,

get them installed in their position so they can begin to implement his agenda. But the nomination of Gates is drawing consternation. He's been investigated by the Justice Department and the House of Representatives over allegations of sexual trafficking. Those probes were ended, but Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski is troubled.

I don't think it's a serious nomination for the attorney general. That's Lisa Murkowski's view. She spoke to MSNBC. Thousands of French police are being deployed around a Paris stadium ahead of a soccer match tonight between the French and Israeli national teams. And Pierce Eleanor Beardsley says it's going ahead despite anti-Semitic violence at a similar match in Amsterdam. France coach Didier Deschamps says it's difficult to prepare for a match under such tension.

He's been urging people to just treat this as a normal soccer game, but it's anything but. Some 4,000 police, that's four times more than usual, will be on duty at the stadium, in addition to 1,200 stadium workers. There will be double layers of security both inside and outside the stadium, and nearby bars and restaurants, usually full at match time, are required to close tonight. The Stade de France holds 80,000 people, but fewer than 13,000 tickets have been sold. That breaks down to a police officer for every three people. France's President Emmanuel Macron says he will be at the game to support France and

send a message of fraternity and solidarity. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. In the U.S., telehealth companies say that sales for birth control and morning after pills have soared following Donald Trump's election victory. Texas Public Radio's Gabriella Alcortes-Olarrio reports that's especially true in states with abortion bans. WISP, a sexual and reproductive telehealth company, reported that from November 5th through 6th, orders for pills used in medication abortions were up 600 percent, and emergency contraceptive sales were up almost a thousand percent.

Birth control sales were also up 50% according to a statement from WISP. WISP also says new patient purchases in states with abortion bans such as Texas saw a 930% increase. Another telehealth company Wink's Health reported an increase of 500% in the morning after pills in states with abortion bans. Wink's Health co-founder Jamie Norwood said they are committed to educating the public, especially in a Trump administration, to ensure women are making informed decisions. I'm Gabriela Alcorta Solorio in San Antonio. On Wall Street, the Dow is down nearly 20 points.

This is NPR. The satirical media outlet The Onion has announced that it has bought Infowars, the media assets belonging to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. He was ordered to sell by a bankruptcy court to pay down his debt to Sandy Hook families. Jones owes them $1.5 billion in defamation suits. He spread lies that the mass shooting at the Connecticut Elementary School didn't happen. Yesterday's sale to The Onion still needs to be approved by a judge. Federal health officials were in California's Central Valley this week, part of a pilot program to help contain bird flu.

From Member Station KVPR, Carrie Klein reports the virus has now been detected across the country in at least 46 people and hundreds of dairy cattle herds. On Monday and Tuesday, testing for avian influenza took place under a red tent outside a Walgreens in the Tulare County city of Visalia. Brian Strong with Walgreens says it was for farm workers who might have had contact with infected cattle or poultry. It's a COVID influe test that we're going to do on site here and then we specifically take a sample to look to see if if it is actually the bird flu strain. This was part of a brand new CDC pilot program to test for bird flu in two states.

The turnout this week? Not so good. But they'll be back again next week. For NPR News, I'm Kari Klein in Visalia. President Biden is flying to Peru today to attend an international economic summit. He'll meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday. The White House says Biden will tell his counterpart, the US and China must maintain stability, clarity and predictability

as president-elect Donald Trump prepares to govern the US. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.