Day: December 5, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, faces a tough path to confirmation in the Senate. New York City police are searching for the person who killed the head of America’s largest health insurer. And, the conclusions of an economist who studied the impact of mass deportations on the job market. Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter . Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Roberta Rampton, Russell Lewis, Alfredo Carbajal, Lisa Thomson and HJ Mai. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Kaity Kline. We get engineering support from Neisha Heinis. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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Today, December 5, marks the remembrance of a brutal chapter in history: the forced deportation of Western Azerbaijanis during the years 1987-1991. This tragedy was not an isolated event but part of a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing spanning over a century.