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This message comes from Wondery. Some of the craziest conspiracy theories are actually classified government operations. To hear more about these hidden truths, listen to redacted, declassified mysteries with Luke Lamanna on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President-elect Donald Trump is turning once more to the stars of Fox News to stock his second administration. As NPR's media correspondent David Falkenflick reports, the former and future president is a close watcher of TV news. Pete Hegseth to the Pentagon. He's been a host of Fox and Friends Weekend. Trump's pick for the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Sure, she was a Democratic member

of the House of Representatives, but she became a paid Fox commentator. Trump's choice over Homeland Security, Tom Homan, also a commentator. Ambassador to Israel designate Mike Huckabee had a weekly show after his unsuccessful run for the White House in 2012, while others have effectively auditioned on Fox. Trump selected cable news warrior Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general. And Robert F. Kennedy popped up on Fox repeatedly to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris from the left. Now, Kennedy's the Trump choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services. David Falkenflich, NPR News. President-elect Trump made official his nomination of North Dakota Governor Doug Berman to be

Secretary of the Department of the Interior, also announcing an expanded role for the Interior Secretary, which would include seating that person under the National Security Council. The Interior Department manages nearly 25 percent of all U.S. energy development in the U.S. It owns nearly a fifth of U.S. surface lands and issues leases to develop an even larger portion of the nation's mineral rights. By selecting Burgum to lead Interior, Trump may be indicating public lands available for business, a stance he took in his previous administration. The ongoing COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan mark nearly three decades of world leaders meeting annually to hash out plans to

limit planet warming emissions, but the earth is still on track for a dangerous amount of warming. And here's Michael Copley reports there are calls to change the UN process for dealing with climate change. The group of scientists and advocates say countries need to shift from negotiations to action on the climate commitments they've already made. The group is pushing for smaller, more frequent meetings that hold countries accountable. And it says the meeting should be hosted by nations that support a transition from fossil fuels, the main source of climate pollution.

The lead negotiator for the presidency of this year's climate meeting in Azerbaijan, Yelkin Rafyev, defended the negotiations. It's better than any alternative, taking into account that we don't have any alternative processes. Rafyev urged negotiators to move faster on a plan to help developing countries deal with climate change. Michael Copley, NPR News. to October with gains in sales of automobiles, electronics, and spending at bars and restaurants. At down end of the week on Wall Street, the Dow fell 305 points today, the Nasdaq was

down 427 points, more than 2%. This is NPR. Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson fights wealthy YouTube star turned pro boxer Jake Paul tonight in a match for Netflix. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the fight in Arlington, Texas may also reveal more of Netflix's strategy for presenting live sports. Netflix has hyped tonight's match between Tyson and Paul with a series of mini-documentaries where narrator Ice T. points out the obvious about the former heavyweight champ. Now here he is, against a man less than half his age, with a date in the ring in Texas, and we can't look away. Tyson 58 faces 27-year-old Paul in a match designed to draw viewers across generations.

Fans of Paul, who started boxing professionally in 2020, may not have even been alive when Tyson last fought professionally 19 years ago. The fight, delayed from July due to Tyson's ulcer problems, is among Netflix's growing live sports offerings, including two Christmas Day NFL games. Eric Deggans, NPR News. Scientists now say new research has confirmed volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago. Researchers say in analyzing soil samples brought back by China's Chang'e spacecraft,

they found fragments of volcanic rock that were around 2.8 billion years old, some even older. Previous studies have indicated the moon might have had a volcanic pass, but researchers say the latest analysis proves it. Findings were published in the journals Nature and Science. Critical futures prices gave back some of their recent gains. Oil dropped $1.68 a barrel to $6702 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.