Good morning. We're covering key figures in the next Trump administration and the opening of the global climate summit, COP29, in Azerbaijan. Plus: How to cope with missing out on grandchildren.
Plans emerged for Trump's second administrationIn the days after his election victory, President-elect Donald Trump has already settled on some of the top figures of his administration. He is expected to announce Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his secretary of state, people familiar with his thinking said yesterday. Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner and Trump adviser, is taking over policy planning for the transition and is expected to be named deputy chief of staff, according to people briefed on the matter. Miller is expected to work closely with Thomas Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whom the president-elect named on Sunday as his "border czar." Trump has already said that he would nominate Lee Zeldin, a former congressman from New York, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a position that is expected to be central to Trump's plans to dismantle landmark climate regulations. Elise Stefanik, a congresswoman from New York and staunch supporter of Israel, will be his ambassador to the U.N., he said. (Read about other key Trump insiders.) Related: Trump will begin his next presidency by reinstating several executive orders that President Biden revoked, Susie Wiles, the next White House chief of staff, privately told Republican donors yesterday. In other U.S. political news:
Could Iran make a deal with Trump?Iran has a charged history with Donald Trump: As president, he pulled out of the 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and world powers, imposed tough economic sanctions and ordered the killing of its top general. Iran, in turn, plotted to assassinate Trump before the November election, according to federal prosecutors. Yet many former officials and pundits in Iran have openly called for the government to engage with Trump in recent days. And many in the government of Iran's new, more moderate president, Masoud Pezeshkian, are listening. They say that Trump loves to make deals where others have failed, and that his outsize dominance in the Republican Party could give any potential agreement more staying power. From the region:
U.N. climate talks opened in AzerbaijanWorld leaders yesterday opened the global climate summit, COP29, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, amid a bleak reality: The U.S., the country responsible for pumping the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is expected to soon drop out of the fight against climate change. During the two-week talks, financial support for developing countries is expected to be a focus, but the U.S. is likely to abandon its plans to give aid. President-elect Donald Trump also intends to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, the 2015 international pact to protect the planet. Context: The talks are being hosted by an autocratic government whose economy relies almost entirely on fossil fuels. So why is COP29 being held in Baku?
Dave Kim, an editor at The Times Book Review, spent August in the Alps after his son fell in love with the Swiss children's novel "Heidi." "I never expected it to be a hit," Dave writes. "I certainly didn't expect to find myself weeks later in an Alpine enclave called Heidiland, wandering with my 8-year-old superfan through the knot of trails and villages that inspired the story." Lives lived: Hama Amadou, a politician who alternated stints in high office in Niger with time in prison and exile, died at 74.
The grief of never having grandchildrenA growing number of Americans say they are unlikely to have children. Now their parents are grappling with what that means for them. Would-be grandparents may experience a deep sense of longing and loss when their children opt out of parenthood, even if they understand that their children do not "owe" them a family legacy, said Claire Bidwell Smith, a therapist based in Los Angeles. It doesn't help that American society tends to paint grandchildren as a reward for aging. We hope you've enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
Cook: This one-pot chicken and rice dish is delicious and easy. Read: The winner of the Booker Prize will be announced today. Which of these six novels should win? Watch: "Dune: Prophecy" takes place 10,000 years before the action in the first two "Dune" movies. Wear: Burgundy. You know you want to. Travel: Spend 36 hours in San Francisco. Play the Spelling Bee. And here are today's Mini Crossword and Wordle. You can find all our puzzles here. That's it for today's briefing. See you tomorrow. — Natasha Reach Natasha and the team at briefing@nytimes.com.
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