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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. There are signs of progress on a U.S. broker deal for a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. NPR's Daniel Astrid has more from Tel Aviv. An Israeli official told NPR Israel's security cabinet is meeting Tuesday to discuss the Lebanon ceasefire deal and is expected to approve it. The official was not authorized to discuss government deliberations and spoke anonymously.

A White House spokesperson said the U.S. was continuing to work to allow civilians on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border to safely return to their homes. Lebanon's deputy parliament speaker Elias Boussaab said officials are close to a ceasefire, but that nothing is guaranteed. Israel's military has tightened restrictions on Israeli schools and gatherings near the Lebanese border, anticipating intensified Hezbollah rocket fire. Both Hezbollah and Israel escalated attacks this weekend.

Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Despite the potential for a diplomatic breakthrough, Israel has launched new airstrikes on Lebanon. Lebanese officials say at least 31 people were killed Monday. In Washington, White House National Security spokesman John Kirby acknowledged being close to a deal, but he said nothing is done until everything is done. The 2024 presidential election saw dramatic shifts among some demographic groups in President-elect Trump's direction, but NPR's Domenico Montanaro says whether Republicans can hold that coalition together

after Trump is an open question. Young voters, Latinos, and Asian-American voters in key states swung 20 points or more in Trump's direction. These are all groups that have tended to vote Democratic over the years, so are they now Republican voters? Or did they simply shift because they felt prices were too high and they blamed the incumbent party? How they judged Trump's job performance and whether another Republican can fire up white voters without college degrees to the same extent is going to be key in the next four years.

Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington. Trump rounded out his cabinet picks over the weekend, including those in the healthcare space. His choices include Dr. Marty McCary to lead the Food and Drug Administration. McCary is a surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University. The Washington Post's Dan Diamond says he's a frequent FDA critic. He has made a number of critiques over the years of FDA and some of the broader federal health agencies.

He said that they're too slow, they're too bureaucratic. Those are bipartisan concerns, to be fair. He's not the first person to bring that up. But what he specifically homed in on during the coronavirus response was he said it was too heavy handed, that some of the recommendations around vaccines were too blanket. Another area that he hasn't agreed

with the regulators on before was work around medical errors, also price transparency, and he's pushed some of those issues throughout his career. Trump also tapped Florida Congressman Dave Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Jeanette Neswock for Surgeon General. This is NPR. Prosecutors in a mass rape trial finishing up in France have asked for 20 years for the maximum sentence for the main people accused. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports a victim is being praised for her courage. French television showed Giselle Pellico being met with cheers, applause, and a bouquet of flowers

as she left the courtroom Monday. Thank you, she said. Let justice be done. Pellico's husband and 51 other men are on trial for drugging and raping her She left the courtroom Monday. Thank you, she said. Let justice be done. Pellico's husband and 51 other men are on trial for drugging and raping her over a period of nearly 10 years. She found out when police found thousands of videos of the abuse on her husband's computer. But instead of requesting a closed-door trial, Pellico insisted on opening it up to the media and public. The case has shocked France, sparked a national discussion of sexual violence,

and turned Pellicoe into a hero. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. A long time goalkeeper for the US women's national team is retiring from international soccer. Alyssa Neer announced her retirement in an Instagram post on Monday. She's currently in London. As the team prepares for a couple of upcoming matches in Europe.

They will be the final games of her 11 years playing for the US. Nira was on the US team that won the Women's World Cup in 2019 and the gold medal at this year's Olympics in France. Japan's benchmark Nikkei is lower Tuesday trading than Nikkei down 1.5 percent after President-elect Trump pledged to impose tariffs on all imports from Canada, Mexico and additional tariffs on China as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and illicit drugs.