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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 in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President-elect Donald Trump has wasted little time in choosing his new nominee for attorney general after former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz pulled his name from consideration.

Trump announcing on his social media platform he's picking another Florine for the post, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. MPR's Ryan Lucas has more on the new nominee. She is a former attorney general for the state of Florida, served in that job from 2011 to 2019. Before that though, she worked as a local prosecutor in the state. In a statement announcing his decision, Trump today said that when Bondi was a prosecutor,

she was very tough, he said, on violent criminals and made the streets safer for Florida families. And then as state attorney general, Trump says that Bondi worked on stopping the flow of deadly drugs and trying to reduce the number of deaths from fentanyl. Trump says Bondi will refocus a justice department, he says has been weaponized against him and other Republicans. Bondi is a longtime Trump ally.

She was one of his lawyers at his first impeachment trial. In Pennsylvania, US Senate race, Democratic Senator Bob Casey is conceded to Republican David McCormick. As NPR's Hanzi LeWong reports, the concession comes after Pennsylvania started a recount of ballots for the ultra-close race. About 16,000 votes or less than a quarter of a percent of the seven million ballots cast in Pennsylvania separated Republican David McCormick and the Democratic incumbent Senator Bob Casey. The close margin led to an automatic statewide recount, as required by state law, and has now spelled the end of Casey's three terms in the U.S. Senate, where Republicans are set to be the majority next year.

This year, Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump, have now won all of Pennsylvania's statewide races. The Associated Press declared McCormick the winner two weeks ago. The AP found there were not enough uncounted ballots in areas supporting Casey for the Democrat to ultimately take the lead. Still Casey held back from conceding earlier and said he wanted to make sure every eligible vote was counted. Hansi Luong, NPR News.

Google is calling the Justice Department's push to break up the company overreach by the government. As NPR's Bobby Allen explains, justice lawyers are asking a federal court to force Google to sell its Chrome browser. After being declared an illegal monopoly earlier this year, the Justice Department is pushing for drastic changes at Google. Among them, sell off the popular Chrome browser to another company. George Hay is a former Justice Department lawyer. Be one of the few divestitures that have occurred in antitrust cases. It seems to fit a supposed crime.

It does seem as though this may be necessary to introduce effective competition search. Google says the proposals represent unprecedented government overreach that would break Google products that, quote, people love and find helpful in their everyday lives. Bobby Allen in PR News. Stocks again ground on Wall Street today with blue chips up more than 1% as investors continue to analyze third quarter earnings numbers. The Dow gained 461 points or just more than 1%. The NASDAQ was up 6 points today. You're listening to NPR. The Treasury Department has hit Russia's third-biggest bank and its six foreign subsidiaries with sanctions.

The latest action against Gazprom Bank aimed at curtailing Russia's ability to evade sanctions imposed on the country since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the sanctions target the country's largest non-sanctioned bank and will make it harder for the Kremlin to evade U.S. sanctions and equip its military. Other Russian banks, securities registrars, and finance officials were also hit with sanctions. Mexico says it has a plan in case of possible mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants under the Trump administration. From Hermosillo, Mexico, Nita Kravinsky, Member Station KJZ ZiaZ is more. Mexican president Claudia Schoenbaum says her country is prepared to receive deportees if there are mass expulsions next year, but she says her first step is to show the incoming

administration that immigrants from her country are an important part of the U.S. economy and said that immigrants shouldn't be treated as criminals. President Donald Trump has promised deportations starting at the beginning of his new administration in January. He confirmed this week that he plans to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out those deportations. According to the Pew Research Center, there are around 4 million unauthorized immigrants from Mexico and the U.S. For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky in Edmosil, Mexico. Critical futures prices followed stocks higher today. That says tensions mount between Russia and Ukraine.

Oil was up $1.35 a barrel, or about 2% to settle at 70.10 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington. This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University performs breakthrough research every year, making discoveries that improve human health, combat climate change, and move society forward. More at iu.edu slash forward.