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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwahle Saikow-Tow. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Florida hours ago and is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort to discuss border and trade issues. Ahead of this unexpected meeting between Trump and Trudeau, Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Krista Freeland told reporters in Toronto the current US-Canada-Mexico trade deal works for all three countries. Canada today has a North American trade deal that works. That works for all three of our countries and it is a trade deal that was negotiated by

President-elect Donald Trump which is a further guarantee for all of us. Earlier this week, Trump threatened to impose tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico if the two countries don't address illegal immigration and illicit drugs at their shared borders with the U.S. Human rights groups say dozens of people have been killed in heavy fighting in and around Syria's second-largest city, Aleppo.

And Perez Lauren Freire reports it's the latest round of fighting that began with Syria's civil war in 2011 and has continued off and on since. Opposition forces have been battling their way toward Aleppo for days and have now entered the city. It's the first such attack since 2016, when insurgents were ousted from the city by Syrian government forces with help from Russia and Iran. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says insurgents blew up two car bombs on Aleppo's western edge, and have issued a call to residents to cooperate.

State media say insurgents' projectiles hit a university campus, killing students, and that the government conducted airstrikes in response. This attack coincides with a ceasefire in neighboring Lebanon between Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants who are also supported by Iran. Lauren Freire, NPR News, Beirut. Next month, a NASA probe will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. As Joe Polka reports, it's the crowning event of a mission to explore the Sun's atmosphere.

There are many questions about the Sun's atmosphere that the Parker Solar Probe is designed to study. In particular, it will investigate how the solar wind is generated and why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface. To gather that information, the probe has to get very close to the Sun, and that's a challenge. The spacecraft must withstand temperatures of around 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. To make this close encounter, the spacecraft has been using flybys of Venus to adjust its trajectory.

Earlier this year, it made its seventh and final Venus flyby, setting it on a course that will take it approximately 3.9 million miles from the sun. The close encounter will occur on December 24. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palca. Security staff at Seattle's Art Museum are on strike. This is NPR. Traffic citations against the Miami Dolphinins star wide receiver Tyreek Hills have been dropped. They stemmed from a traffic stop earlier this year outside the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. WLRN's Helene Acevedo reports the arrest sparked outrage and renewed concerns about racial disparities in policing.

Hill was pulled over on September 8th for allegedly speeding right before the Dolphin season opener. The situation during the traffic stop escalated after a verbal exchange between Hill and one of the officers. Police body cam footage shows the Miami-Dade County officers pulling Hill from the vehicle, face first to the ground, and handcuffing him. About 30 minutes later, Hill was issued citations for careless driving and failing to wear a seatbelt, making it on time for the game. The citations were dropped after the officers failed to show up at the hearing this week. In a statement on X, Hill reacted by saying, quote, Where are all the Internet cops now? One of the officers was placed on

administrative duty and an internal affairs investigation is underway. For NPR News, I'm Helena Acevedo in Miami. The eastern half of the United States is bracing for what the National Weather Service says is the coldest air since last winter. An Arctic blast or air mass is moving southward to the northern plains into the mid-east not only this weekend but through next week. This means drivers trying to get home from the holidays or trying to deliver goods across state lines need to be prepared for possible black ice temperatures in the single digits and teens. The Dakotas could see wind chills below minus 15 degrees. This is NPR News.