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Joe Biden's on his way out and Donald Trump's on his way back. Want to know what's happening as the presidential transition is underway? The NPR Politics Podcast has you covered with the latest news and analysis. Listen to the NPR Politics Podcast. Lyle from NPR News in Washington. I'm Lakshmi Singh. President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to investigate, prosecute, and imprison his perceived enemies during his campaign. As NPR's Tom Drysbach reports, Trump's targets are now bracing themselves. Mark Zaid is an attorney in Washington, D.C., who represents multiple people threatened

by the former and now incoming president. Since the election, Zaid says he's been helping his clients prepare for the new administration. A lot of it is to simply get folks ready, secure lawyers, CPAs, securing finances and things like that, even being out of the country in the most extreme of circumstances. Zaid is telling some of his clients to leave the country because it gives them more options to fight against politically motivated prosecutions, though he said it is still unclear whether Trump will fulfill his promise to prosecute his critics. Tom Dreisbach, NPR News. The French national football team will be back in front of its home fans tonight for the first time in a year and a half, according to the Stade de France website.

And the first match of the Nations League is against Israel. After last week's attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, Parisian authorities are on high alert. Here's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley. Deploying 4,000 police, that's four times more than usual with double layers of security inside and outside the stadium. I was out at the Stade de France yesterday and they were making a security perimeter with high fences around the stadium. And all the restaurants and bars that usually make a lot of money on game nights told me they'd been ordered to close tonight. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley, only about 20,000 of 80,000 available tickets have been sold for the match. President Biden is traveling to South America for a series of meetings

with world leaders. NPR's Asma Khalid reports Biden faces a daunting challenge after Trump won the presidential election. President Biden came into office with a mission to strengthen U.S. alliances, and that is the record he'll be taking with him when he meets in Lima with leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. He'll go with our alliances in the Indo-Pacific

at a literal all-time high, Japan, Korea, Australia, the Philippines. That's Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaking to reporters. And that's what he's gonna hand off to President Trump. But Trump has championed a go-it-alone America First vision, threatening tariffs on friends and foes. So it's not clear how Biden may try to reassure anxious allies this week. Asma Khalid, NPR News, Lima. Alex Jones Media Company will likely no longer be owned by Alex Jones. Free Speech Systems, a parent company of his right-wing conspiracy-laden info war show, was sold in a bankruptcy liquidation auction yesterday to the satirical news outlet,

The Union. The amount of the winning bid has not yet been disclosed. Proceeds of the sale will go to paying down Jones one and a half billion dollar debt. This is NPR News. More than 800 million adults worldwide have diabetes. That number has quadrupled since 1990 according to new data published in the medical journal The Lancet. NPR's Gabrielle Emanuel has more. The largest increase in diabetes rates is in low and middle income countries, where 90 percent of people with untreated diabetes live.

Experts are calling the increasing rates alarming and urgent. The World Health Organization says the rise reflects the increase in obesity compounded by the marketing of unhealthy foods, a lack of physical activity, and economic hardship. Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR News. A new animated show, Carl the Collector, that premieres today on PBS Kids introduces children and families to a main character with autism, St. Pierre's Kristen Wright. The show follows the adventures of Carl the Collector, a raccoon who has autism and loves to collect things, from bottle caps to fake mustaches.

Carl's ability to pay very close attention to detail helps him think of great ideas. His friends are neurodivergent like him and neuro-typical. Groups like the National Autism Association have been pushing for representation on screen for a long time, says co-founder Lori McElwain. The more that it's out there, the more, you know, we're going to learn from from the very early age about the importance of accepting and embracing those differences. The show's production team includes neurodiverse writers and advisors, and Carl himself is voiced by an autistic actor. Kristen Wright, NPR News.

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