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How much can one person change in four years? The answer comes down to who he puts in charge. Trump's Terms is a podcast where you can follow NPR's coverage of the people who will shape Donald Trump's first 100 days in office and what their goals are. We will track his cabinet picks, his political team, his top military leaders to understand who they are, what they believe, and how they'll govern. Listen to Trump's terms from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A day after withdrawing his name from consideration for attorney general, former Congressman Matt Gaetz says he has no plans to seek the House seat he vacated. I'm still going to be in the fight, but it's going to be from a new perch. I do not intend to join the 119th Congress.

There are a number of fantastic Floridians who've stepped up to run for my seat. Danielle Pletka Gates, in an interview today with radio and podcast talk show host Charlie Kirk, after he was picked for AG, he resigned from the House, but Gates ended his pursuit of Senate confirmation amid debate over whether the public should see the findings of an ethics committee investigation into alleged sex trafficking and other offenses that Gates has denied. Within hours of Gates' withdrawal, President-elect Trump put forth former Florida AG Pam Bondi to head the Justice Department. The president of Mexico says her government is preparing for Trump to follow through on

his pledge to carry out mass deportations from the U.S. once he returns to the White House. For Member Station KJZZ, Nina Kravinsky reports. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum 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 US economy, and said that immigrants shouldn't be treated as criminals. 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 Edmosillo, Mexico. The European Union's top diplomat says the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be enforced if he were to travel to Europe. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports all 27 EU countries are signatories to the ICC. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News Anchor The Hague Netherlands-based court issued

arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas armed wing head Mohammed Daif, who is thought to be dead. The ICC accuses both sides of war crimes and crimes against humanity. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said complying with the arrest warrants is not a political decision, but a duty. It is a decision of a court of justice, an international court of justice. And the decision of the court has to be respected and implemented. Netanyahu rejected and condemned the arrest warrant, calling it anti-Semitic. The U.S., which is not a signatory to the ICC, categorically rejected the arrest warrants

for the Israeli leaders, saying there had been troubling errors in the court's process. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. From Washington, this is NPR News. In the northwestern U.S., some communities face the threat of flash floods, rock slides, debris flow as well from torrential rainfall. The National Weather Service projected as much as a foot or more of rain through today. Northern California, portions of Oregon and Washington State all affected by an atmospheric river that's also generated high elevation snow and damaging wind gusts. According to poweraddage.us, about 183,000 utility customers in Washington state alone are facing another day without electricity.

The only emperor penguin ever known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia is homebound. NPR's Amy Held reports the penguin, known as Gus, waddled into the hearts of Australians during his three-week rehabilitation. Amy Held-Gus is going home. Three weeks after, the first emperor penguin found in Australia washed ashore, looking lost and malnourished, some 2,000 miles away from home in Antarctica. An Australian wildlife expert took him in and named him after the Roman emperor Augustus. These penguins are the world's biggest and known to swim far for food, but they are susceptible

to climate change as melting sea ice messes with their reproductive cycle. As for Gus, after resting and fattening up, Carol Bidolph, his caregiver, helped see him off in the Southern Ocean. Good luck, Gus. Oh, there he is. There's his head. The goal is for Gus to get himself back home. I'll miss Gus. Bidolph said he had spent a lot of time in front of a big mirror. She thinks because he was lonely. Amy Held, NPR News.

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