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The Code Switch team spent Election Day talking to folks about how the outcome might impact them. It's a time capsule of people's hopes and fears before they knew the results. One way or another, there's a change coming. I wanted to vote for Trump, but I voted for her. Gays for Trump. I cried this morning. I've been crying on and off. I'm terrified.

Listen to Code Switch, the podcast about race and identity from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Lakshmi Singh. As Republicans prepare to take control of the White House and Congress in a matter of months, Senate Republicans will face a major test winner if they hold confirmation hearings on Trump's nominees. Perhaps the most controversial is that of now former Congressman Matt Gaetz, who resigned his house seat yesterday after he was nominated for attorney general. If confirmed, he'll oversee the same Justice Department that investigated sex trafficking allegations against the Florida Republican. NPR's Tamara Keith reports Trump's top priorities

are coming into sharper focus through the people he selected for key posts. They all lack relevant management experience, but they have the most important qualification of all, which is loyalty to Trump and a willingness to execute on his vision. And all of this is in line with Trump's lessons learned from the first time in office when he surrounded himself with people who were generally very well qualified for their jobs, but who ultimately stood in the way of the norms busting things that Trump was trying to do. NPR's Tamara Keith reporting. Russia is repeating claims it has not yet been in touch with the incoming Trump administration. The statement contradicts media reports Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the war in Ukraine with Trump in a phone call following last week's election. Here's NPR's Charles Maines. In his daily briefing, Kremlin spokesman

Dmitry Peskov dismissed a question about the possibility of US-Russian cooperation under a new Trump administration by stating it was too early to say. The problems were many and there hadn't been any contact at all, said Peskov. It was in effect the second time the spokesman has flatly denied media reports Russian President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Donald Trump had spoken in the days after Trump's election victory. The media reports claim Trump had warned Putin not to escalate in Ukraine before further

negotiations. During his campaign, Trump repeatedly suggested he might end U.S. military aid to Ukraine, a position the critics say would effectively end the war on Moscow's terms. Charles Maynes, NPR News. Trump could be the saving grace of the popular app TikTok, which is facing a U.S. ban. And Piers Windsor-Johnson reports the president-elect pushed to block the platform at the end of his first term, but reversed course during his 2024 campaign. Damien Rolison is a social media marketing expert.

He says the tide has been steadily shifting away from favorability of a ban. Trump is kind of riding a wave of altered sentiment, which I believe is happening concurrently with the fact that the app's popularity continues to grow among U.S. adults with one in three U.S. adults now using TikTok. Congress passed bipartisan legislation this year that forces TikTok's China-based parent company to divest by the end of January, citing national security concerns. Experts say

Trump could urge lawmakers to repeal the law or encourage his future attorney general not to enforce it. It's NPR. Negotiators at a United Nations climate conference are trying to hammer out a funding agreement to help developing countries deal with global warming. NPR's Michael Copley reports the talks in Azerbaijan are slow going. The president of this year's meeting, Mukhtar Babayev, says money is urgently needed to cut climate pollution and protect people from worsening disasters. We must act now. Failure to do so will have grave human and economic costs.

But leaders are struggling to agree on a plan to aid developing nations, says EU negotiator Jacob Wurksman. It's hard to see exactly where the landing grounds lie at the moment. Developing countries want more than a trillion dollars a year from their wealthier neighbors. A sharp increase from current levels but still just a portion of what researchers say they need. Michael Copley, NPR News. Smith Field's reportedly agreed to pay two million dollars to settle alleged child labor violations at a Minnesota plant. The Minnesota Labor Department says Smithfield hired

roughly a dozen teenagers ages 14 to 17 for potentially dangerous work at the St. James plant from 2021 to 2023. The Virginia-based Smithfield, one of the largest meat processors in the U.S. denies it intentionally employed minors. The company says it does not admit liability under the U.S. denies it intentionally employed miners. The company says it does not admit liability under the settlement. U.S. stocks are trading lower this hour with

the Dow down nearly 200 points at 43,767. The NASDAQ has dropped 115 points. The S&P is down 31. This is NPR News.