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CDC-DIRECTOR — The outgoing head of the nation’s top public health agency is urging the next administration to maintain its focus and funding to keep Americans safe from emerging health threats. Dr. Mandy Cohen is director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but she will be leaving office in January after about 18 months in the job. President-elect Donald Trump said he picked Dave Weldon, a former Congressman from Florida, to be the agency’s next chief. Cohen said she hasn’t met Weldon yet. She previously voiced concern about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine advocate nominated to oversee all federal public health agencies. By Mike Stobbe. SENT: 710 words, photos.

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TRUMP-TARIFFS — President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office as part of his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China as one of his first executive orders. By Jill Colvin and Rob Gillies. SENT: 1,390 words, photo, audio. With TRUMP-CAPITOL RIOT — Special counsel moves to abandon election interference and classified documents cases against Trump; TRUMP-CABINET — Trump 2.0 has a Cabinet and executive branch of different ideas and eclectic personalities; TRUMP-CABINET-DIVERSITY — What diversity does — and doesn’t — look like in Trump’s Cabinet; and TRUMP-TRANSITION-AIDE — Trump transition team suggests sidelining top adviser over pay-to-play allegations — SENT.

CHINA-US-TARIFFS — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to sharply raise tariffs on all Chinese imports and close some loopholes Chinese exporters currently use to sell their products more cheaply in the U.S. Smaller Chinese companies like those in Yiwu, an eastern Chinese city that is home to the world’s largest wholesale market, are bracing for the impact. Exporters are maneuvering to cope with the potential tariffs by becoming less reliant on the American market and selling more elsewhere. Some are moving production to Southeast Asia and elsewhere to avoid the duties. By Simina Mistreanu and Ken Moritsugu. UPCOMING: 1,120 words, photos.

MIDEAST-WARS-THE-LATEST — The European Union’s top diplomat says there are “no excuses” for Israel to refuse to implement a ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, saying all its security concerns had been addressed in the U.S.-French-brokered deal. Israeli officials said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security Cabinet was set to convene Tuesday to discuss a proposed ceasefire. Among the issues that remain is an Israeli demand to reserve the right to act should Hezbollah violate its obligations under the emerging deal. SENT: 770 words, photos. With ITALY-G7 — EU top diplomat says Israel has ‘no excuses’ to refuse a ceasefire with Hezbollah in US-French deal; and MIDEAST WARS-CEASEFIRE-EXPLAINER — What’s blocking a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah? — SENT.

PAKISTAN-LOCKDOWN — Supporters seeking the release of imprisoned Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan broke through a ring of shipping containers locking down the capital, Islamabad, while at least six people have died in protest-related violence. Protesters battled security forces and ignored a government threat to respond with gunfire. By Riazat Butt. SENT: 690 words, photos, video. With PAKISTAN-LOCKDOWN-EXPLAINER — A violent showdown in Pakistan’s capital pits the government against Imran Khan supporters — sent.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Russia launched 188 drones against most regions of Ukraine in a nighttime blitz, the Ukrainian air force said, describing it as a record number of drones deployed in a single attack. Most of the drones were intercepted, according to the air force, but apartment buildings and critical infrastructure such as the national power grid were damaged. No casualties were immediately reported in the 17 targeted regions. By Hanna Arhirova. SENT: 470 words, photos. With GREECE-NATO — New NATO chief Rutte says alliance ‘needs to go further’ in support for Ukraine; RUSSIA-CRACKDOWN — Russian journalist jailed for 4 years for cooperating with a foreign organization — SENT.

WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS-BIDEN — Millions of obese Americans would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule proposed by the Biden administration. The proposal, which would not be finalized until after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, could cost taxpayers as much as $35 billion over the next decade. By Amanda Seitz. SENT: 570 words, photos.

NO-FAULT-DIVORCE-REPEAL — Warnings have been popping up on social media urging women who might be considering divorce to “pull the trigger” while they still can ever since President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance won the election. While Trump hasn’t championed overhauling the country’s divorce laws, Vance did lament that divorce is too easily accessible, as have conservative podcasters and others. By Kimberelee Kruesi. SENT: 1,030 words, photo.

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BRITAIN-GLASTONBURY-ROD-STEWART — Rock star Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury Festival next year. SENT: 250 words, photo.

WALMART-DEI-ROLLBACK — Walmart becomes latest - and biggest - company to roll back its DEI policies. SENT: 660 words, photo.

MUSIC-DRAKE-UMG-LAWSUIT — Drake alleges Universal falsely inflated popularity of Kendrick Lamar diss track "Not Like Us." SENT: 460 words, photo.

SOUTH KOREA-MILITARY DODGING — South Korean man convicted for deliberately gaining weight to evade military service. SENT: 380 words, photo.

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ELECTION-2024-ARIZONA-CANVASS — Top officials in Arizona have certified the state’s election results, including voters’ approval of a measure that expands abortion access from the current 15-week limit to the point of fetal viability. Reproductive rights groups are now setting sights on other abortion laws on the books that they say are too restrictive. SENT: 620 words, photos.

TRANSGENDER-HEALTH-MISSOURI — A Missouri court has upheld a new state law that bans some gender-affirming health care for minors. The state’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey says the ruling makes Missouri the first state to successfully defend such a policy in trial court. SENT: 560 words, photos.

MENENDEZ-BROTHERS-WHAT-TO-KNOW — A judge has delayed until January his decision on whether to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion 35 years ago. Still he let the brothers’ aunts take the stand. They both have testified on the brothers’ behalf as they seek to have their 1989 convictions reexamined in the shotgun murders of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez. Attorneys argue the convictions should be reexamined because of new evidence of alleged sexual abuse by the brothers’ father. SENT: 840 words, photos.

YOUNG-THUG-TRIAL — Prosecutors said the last two defendants in a long-running gang and racketeering trial committed murder on behalf of an Atlanta street gang co-founded by rapper Young Thug. SENT: 790 words, photos.

FBI-AGENT-SEX-ASSAULT-CHARGES — An FBI agent who was acquitted of attempted murder for shooting a man on a train nearly four years ago was arrested in Maryland on charges that he sexually assaulted two women, according to police and court records. SENT: 460 words.

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PHILIPPINES-MARCOS-DUTERTE — Philippine authorities handed a subpoena to Vice President Sara Duterte’s office, inviting her to answer investigators’ questions after she publicly threatened to have the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker assassinated if she were killed in an unspecified plot herself. SENT: 350 words, photo, video. With PHILIPPINES-FEUDING-LEADERS — Philippine president and vice president clash in a feud that’s testing an Asian democracy — SENT.

MYANMAR-FIGHTING — A powerful rebel group has seized a key trading town in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese border, taking control of a lucrative rare earth mining hub in another setback for the military-led government, according to witnesses. SENT: 780 words, photos.

BANGLADESH-HINDU-LEADER — Police in Bangladesh’s capital have arrested a prominent Hindu leader who has been leading rallies demanding security for Hindus in the overwhelmingly Muslim nation since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid a mass uprising in August. SENT: 550 words, photos.

BRAZIL-BOLSONARO-AUDIOS — Fifty three audios from late 2022 reveal high-ranking members of Brazil’s army discussing efforts to pressure then-President Jair Bolsonaro to carry out a coup and remain in power. The audios, obtained by the Federal Police and accessed by The Associated Press, provide a rare chance to hear military members expressing in their own voices their desire to keep leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from taking office. SENT: 720 words, photos.

HONG-KONG-LGBT-RULING — Hong Kong’s top court has upheld earlier rulings that favored the granting of subsidized housing benefits and equal inheritance rights to same-sex couples, in a landmark victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. SENT: 650 words, photos.

INDONESIA-FLASH-FLOODS — Indonesian rescuers have recovered 20 bodies and are looking for two villagers who remain missing after flash floods on Sumatra island caused mud and rocks to tumble down mountainsides. SENT: 180 words, photos.

GERMANY-MERKEL’S-MEMOIRS — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin’s “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit. SENT: 900 words, photos.

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BUSINESS

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ELECTRIC-VEHICLES-TAX-CREDITS — If President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his threat to kill federal tax credits for electric vehicle purchases, it’s likely that fewer buyers will choose EVs. Yet tax credits or not, auto companies show no intention of retreating from a transition away from gas-burning cars and trucks, especially given the enormous investment they have already made: Since 2021, the industry has spent at least $160 billion on planning, designing and building electric vehicles. SENT: 1,180 words, photos.

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HOCKEY-CANADA-SEXUAL-ASSAULT — Lawyers in the sexual assault case of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team began what are expected to be several weeks of legal arguments, ahead of next year’s trial. SENT: 270 words, photos.

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The traditional 45 meter high Dortmund Christmas tree, one of the world's largest, is illuminated for the first time this year at the Christmas market in Dortmund, Germany, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

President Joe Biden, left, serves food at a Friendsgiving event with service members and their families in the Staten Island borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 25 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Defendant Susan Lorincz, left, who fatally shot a Black neighbor through her front door during an ongoing dispute, weeps during her sentencing hearing Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, in Ocala, Fla. (Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette via AP, Pool)

An activist shouts slogan as she leads a rally to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Kolkata, India, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Women attend a rally to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Turkish police officers detain a woman during a protest marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A rabbi delivers an eulogy next to the coffin containing the remains of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in Kfar Chabad, Israel, Monday Nov. 25, 2024. Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, was killed last week in Dubai where he ran a kosher grocery store. Israelis have flocked for commerce and tourism since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in the 2020 Abraham Accords.(AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Thick smoke, flames and debris erupt from an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The European Union’s top diplomat said Tuesday there were “no excuses” for Israel to refuse to implement a ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, saying all its security concerns had been addressed in the U.S.-French-brokered deal.

Josep Borrell, the outgoing EU foreign policy chief, called for increased pressure on Israel to blunt extremists in the government who are refusing to accept the deal. Speaking on the sidelines of a Group of Seven meeting in Italy, Borrell warned that if a ceasefire is not implemented, “Lebanon will fall apart.”

Israeli officials said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security Cabinet was set to convene Tuesday to discuss a proposed ceasefire. Among the issues that remain is an Israeli demand to reserve the right to act should Hezbollah violate its obligations under the emerging deal.

Borrell said the U.S. would chair a ceasefire implementation committee, but France would participate at the request of Lebanon.

“On the proposal agreement brokered by the U.S. and France, Israel has all security concerns (addressed),” Borrell told reporters in Fiuggi, Italy. “There is not an excuse for not implementing a ceasefire. Otherwise, Lebanon will fall apart.”

Hezbollah began attacking Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after Hamas’ attack on southern Israel, setting off more than a year of fighting. That escalated into all-out war in September with massive Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and an Israeli ground invasion of the country’s south. Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets into Israeli military bases, cities and towns, including some 250 projectiles on Sunday.

In the Gaza Strip, more than 44,000 people have been killed and more than 104,000 wounded in the 13-month war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military says its ground troops have reached parts of Lebanon’s Litani River — a focal point of the emerging ceasefire.

In a statement Tuesday, the army said it had reached the Wadi Slouqi area in southern Lebanon and clashed with Hezbollah forces.

Under a proposed ceasefire, Hezbollah would be required to move its forces north of the Litani, which in some places is some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the Israeli border.

The military says the clashes with Hezbollah took place on the eastern end of the Litani, just a few kilometers (miles) from the border. It is one of the deepest places Israeli forces have reached in a nearly two-month ground operation.

The military says soldiers destroyed rocket launchers and missiles and engaged in “close-quarters combat” with Hezbollah forces.

The announcement came hours before Israel’s security Cabinet is expected to approve a ceasefire that would end nearly 14 months of fighting.

BEIRUT — Israeli jets Tuesday struck at least six buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs Tuesday, including one that slammed near the country’s only airport.

Large plumes of smoke could be seen around the airport near the Mediterranean coast, which has continued to function despite its location beside the densely populated suburbs where many of Hezbollah’s operations are based.

The strikes come hours before Israel’s cabinet was scheduled to meet to discuss a proposal to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The proposal calls for an initial two-month ceasefire during which Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon and Hezbollah would end its armed presence along the southern border south of the Litani River.

There were no immediate reports of casualties from Tuesday’s airstrikes.

FIUGGI, Italy — EU top diplomat Josep Borrell, whose term ends Dec. 1, said he proposed to the G7 and Arab ministers who joined in talks on Monday that the U.N. Security Council take up a resolution specifically demanding humanitarian assistance reach Palestinians in Gaza, saying deliveries have been completely impeded.

“The two-state solution will come later. Everything will come later. But we are talking about weeks or days,” for desperate Palestinians, he said. “Hunger has been used as an arm against people who are completely abandoned.”

It was a reference to the main accusation levelled by the International Criminal Court in its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister.

Borrell said the signatories to the court, including six of the seven G7 members, are obliged under international law to respect and implement the court’s decisions.

Host Italy put the ICC warrants on the G7 agenda at the last minute, but there was no consensus on the wording of how the G7 would respond given the U.S., Israel’s closest ally, has called the warrants “outrageous.”

Italy, too, has said it respects the court but expressed concern that the warrants were politically motivated and ill-advised given Netanyahu is necessary for any deal to end the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.

“Like it or not, the International Criminal Court is a court as powerful as any national court,” Borrell said. “And if the Europeans don’t support International Criminal Court then there would not be any hope for justice,” he said.

Borrell, whose term ends Dec. 1, said he proposed to the G7 and Arab ministers who joined in talks on Monday that the U.N. Security Council take up a resolution specifically demanding humanitarian assistance reach Palestinians in Gaza, saying deliveries have been completely impeded.

“The two-state solution will come later. Everything will come later. But we are talking about weeks or days,” for desperate Palestinians, he said. “Hunger has been used as an arm against people who are completely abandoned.”

It was a reference to the main accusation levelled by the International Criminal Court in its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister.

Borrell said the signatories to the court, including six of the seven G7 members, are obliged under international law to respect and implement the court’s decisions.

Host Italy put the ICC warrants on the G7 agenda at the last minute, but there was no consensus on the wording of how the G7 would respond given the U.S., Israel’s closest ally, has called the warrants “outrageous.”

Italy, too, has said it respects the court but expressed concern that the warrants were politically motivated and ill-advised given Netanyahu is necessary for any deal to end the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.

“Like it or not, the International Criminal Court is a court as powerful as any national court,” Borrell said. “And if the Europeans don’t support International Criminal Court then there would not be any hope for justice,” he said. (edited)

Smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. Monday Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Injured children during an overnight Israeli army strike are assisted upon their arrival at the hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A girl injured during an overnight Israeli army strike is assisted upon her arrival at the hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, left, talks to European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell after a family photo at the G7 of foreign Ministers in Fiuggi, some 70 kilometers south-east of Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)

From left : US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud attend a working session at the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Fiuggi, Italy, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (Andreas Solaro/Pool Photo via AP)

From left : US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud and UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem al-Hashimy pose for a picture during a working session at the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Fiuggi, Italy, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (Andreas Solaro/Pool Photo via AP)

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, right, and and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell prepare for a family photo at the G7 of foreign Ministers in Anagni, some 70 kilometers south-east of Rome, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)