--:-- Tracy Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. Today's Monday, November 11th.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Donald Trump, who promised a broad crackdown on immigration while running for president, has now named a border czar to carry out his policies.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The president-elect made the announcement in a social media post last night just before midnight, saying Thomas Homan will be in charge of the country's borders.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Homan has worked in law enforcement for over 30 years, including as a Border Patrol agent, and he served as a senior immigration official in Trump's last administration.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: President Trump is going to end the Biden-Harris open border madness.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: At this summer's Republican National Convention, Homan vigorously endorsed Trump's calls for mass deportations.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of federal law. You better start packing now.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Homan also defended some of Trump's most controversial immigration policies from his first term, including the separation of thousands of migrant families at the border.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The policy details for Trump's next administration aren't yet clear, But Homan suggested in an interview on 60 Minutes that the government could resume large-scale raids on worksites to arrest unauthorized workers.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: I don't use the term raids, but you're probably talking about worksite enforcement operations, which this administration pretty much stopped.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Workplace enforcement, that's a roundup. And that's going to be necessary.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Meanwhile, over the weekend, Arizona was called for Trump, giving him a victory in all seven swing states.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: President Biden has invited Trump to the White House this week for a meeting a traditional part of the handover of power
--:-- Tracy Mumford: But there an issue holding up the transition process Trump has not yet submitted a legally required ethics pledge that states he will avoid conflicts of interest while in office.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Congress added that requirement in 2019, in part because of ethics concerns during Trump's first administration.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: One watchdog group identified more than 3,400 conflicts of interest during that time.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Trump's transition team was supposed to submit the ethics plan by October 1st, and until they do, the Biden administration legally cannot share classified intelligence or give Trump's team early access to the federal agencies they'll soon control.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Without that prep, Trump's team will basically be forced to come in cold when they take over in January, which experts say could leave the country vulnerable as the new administration comes in.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: When world leaders arrive today for COP29, the top thing on everyone's mind is the election of Donald J. Trump in the United States.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: What it means is that the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide in history will soon no longer participate in the fight against climate change.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Times climate reporter Lisa Friedman is covering COP29, the global climate talks that kick off today in Azerbaijan.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: She says that the U.S. is basically set to make a 180, as Trump, who's called climate change a hoax and promised to make it easier to burn coal, prepares to take office.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Right now, with the beginning of these negotiations, countries are hoping to unlock billions or even trillions of dollars to help transition the world to clean energy and protect the most vulnerable countries from the ravages of climate change.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Because the Biden administration is essentially a lame duck those discussions are now viewed as harder to achieve an agreement on So that the short term But in the long term and not even that long if the United States is not working at a national level to cut emissions and encouraging other countries to do the same, there's a real question of whether the world can avoid busting through what's considered the safe limits of climate change.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Scientists are telling us that for every fraction of a degree of warming, the severity of dangers will rise. Flooding, droughts, heat waves, wildfires.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Look at this past year alone. There was massive flooding in Brazil. Disastrous flooding in Spain. In the United States, we had back-to-back hurricanes, Helene and Milton.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: If emissions don't go down, disasters like these will continue and will get worse.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: In Russia, 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, are preparing to launch a major offensive against Ukrainian forces.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Their goal? To take back the Russian territory that Ukraine managed to seize earlier this year.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: The attack is expected to begin in the next few days.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: The Ukrainians had hoped that their push into Russia this summer would force Moscow to pull troops away from the front lines to defend its own territory.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Instead, U.S. officials tell The Times that Russia's been able to prepare the coming assault without weakening its other positions, in part thanks to the thousands of North Korean soldiers who've been called up.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: North Korea's army hasn't been involved in ground combat in decades, but Russia's given them machine guns, anti-tank missiles, and other weapons, and trained them in basic infantry tactics and trench clearing.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: If they manage to push the Ukrainians back it's not clear if the North Korean troops will stop at the border or if the North Korean government has authorized them to fight in Ukraine itself
--:-- Lisa Friedman: And finally. And what more could you want? A couple of young 20-somethings just battling it out.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: This weekend, the Women's Tennis Association finals played out in the capital of Saudi Arabia in a sold-out match.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Coco Gauff conquers Riyadh to be champion of the WTA finals.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: But the location of the tournament came with controversy.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: The women were playing in a country where progress on women's rights is still stop and go.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Saudi women have been pouring into the workforce in record numbers recently, and they got the right to drive a few years ago.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: But they still need the permission of a male guardian to marry, and prominent women's rights activists have been jailed.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: In recent years, critics have accused Saudi Arabia of trying to sports wash its human rights record, investing billions of dollars in golf, soccer, boxing, car racing, and now tennis as a distraction.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: The kingdom struck a deal to host the WTA finals, in part by promising some $15 million in overall prize money, the highest winnings in the history of women's tennis.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: Coco Gauff, who ultimately won, weighed the pros and cons of playing in Saudi Arabia before she arrived, saying she had reservations about the country's record on women's rights, as well as LGBTQ rights.
--:-- Lisa Friedman: But she said she also looked forward to promoting the sport to young girls in a new place.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Those are the headlines.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Today on The Daily, how Democrats are now arguing over the party's direction after the sweeping losses of last week.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
