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Take a moment to unwind and give thanks this week with NPR's All Songs Considered, as listeners share their favorite songs of gratitude. This song speaks to me and the basic thing is everybody turns, turns and lands in the place that they need to be. Download new episodes of All Songs Considered every Tuesday wherever you get podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. There's growing reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose significant new tariffs on goods and services coming to the U.S.

from Canada and Mexico. NPR's Don Ghani reports on the response from two of the U.S.'s biggest trading partners. President-elect Trump said in a post on Truth Social that as soon as he takes office next year he'll impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico until they stop what he calls the invasion of drugs and quote illegal aliens into the U.S. Officials from both countries pushed back immediately. Mexico's president threatened retaliatory tariffs in response. If such tariffs are imposed, a wide range of industries would

be impacted. Most significantly, agriculture also facing major disruptions would be the energy sector and the automobile industry. The tariffs would disrupt production and affect jobs. Don Gagne, NPR News. Trump has also threatened to impose an additional 10% tariff on items from China. The Chinese government says a trade war won't benefit anyone. President-elect Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon has called for women's roles in the military to be limited.

NPR's Quill Lawrence reports groups that support female troops are objecting. Pete Hexeth says women should not serve in combat roles and that increasing diversity has lowered standards. Senior Pentagon officials have shot back that women have served successfully in combat since before it was allowed in 2015. And with military recruiting under pressure, retired Colonel Ellen Herring says the force can't afford to lose battle-tested troops. One of the big initial effects would be that the combat arms would lose over 3,000 soldiers. How are they going to fill that hole? It creates like a huge vacuum in the combat branches.

The leading organization combating sexual assault in the military, Protect Our Defenders, has also called on Congress not to confirm Hegseth, who was accused of a sexual assault in 2017, an encounter Hegseth says was consensual. Quill Lawrence, NPR News. Security forces in Pakistan broke up protests in the capital Islamabad overnight. Thousands of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan have been demanding his release from prison. Clashes have been violent, and at least six people were killed yesterday. NPR's Diya Hadid says many Pakistanis no longer trust government institutions, including the army.

Many of Khan's supporters see the army as having rigged elections this February to propel this current government to power. So for now, it's an intractable crisis, the army against Khan and his supporters. And now that they've deployed against civilians in the capital, which is quite unusual in Pakistan, it could happen again because nothing's actually been resolved.

NPR's Diya Hadid prepared that report. You're listening to NPR. The government says the US economy continued to expand in the third quarter of this year. The Commerce Department says the GDP expanded at an annual rate of 2.8 percent. It was boosted by solid consumer spending. President-elect Trump's choice to be his border czar, Tom Homan, visited Texas border towns yesterday. Homan was joined by Texas

Governor Greg Abbott. Texas Public Radio's Gabriela Alcorta-Salorio reports they spoke with National Guard troops and law enforcement officers. The pair traveled to the border towns to serve the troops Thanksgiving meals. Homan said mass deportation will be happening and praised Abbott on his work to secure the border. We've got a mass number of people, millions of people who will get a final order and be ordered removed. If we don't do it, what is the option? Let them stay?

Because if you let them stay, you'll never fix the border. He added that the nation has had enough of crime connected to immigration and he feels Trump's planned deportation policy will bring crime down. I'm Gabriela Alcorta-Solorio in San Antonio. Meanwhile, the most recent data from the FBI show that violent crime in the U.S. has been falling sharply, possibly to rates last seen before the pandemic. Researchers from Stanford University found that since the 1960s, immigrants have been 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated

than people born in the U.S. The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that undocumented immigrants Immigrants have been 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated than people born in the U.S. The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that undocumented immigrants in Texas were 37 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime. On Wall Street in pre-market trading, Dow futures are higher. This is NPR News.