Trump picks Wall Street CEO Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary

By Maria Aspan

Published November 19, 2024 at 5:13 PM EST

Lutnick, a billionaire investor who has been overseeing Trump's transition, will oversee a sweeping federal bureaucracy and have a role in enforcing Trump's promised tariffs.

Maria Aspan

Maria Aspan is the financial correspondent for NPR. She reports on the world of finance broadly, and how it affects all of our lives.

Trump to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Selena Simmons-Duffin

President-elect Trump continues to pick his new administration. He will nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz — known for The Dr. Oz Show on daytime TV — to head the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid.
Gisele Pelicot, victim in mass rape trial in France, gives last day of testimony

Eleanor Beardsley

The victim at the center of a mass rape trial in France gave her closing statement in a French court. She denounced French society as macho and patriarchal, called it a society that trivializes rape.
Guidebook author Arthur Frommer has died at 95

Elizabeth Blair

Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized travel with his 1957 guidebook Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, has died at 95, his daughter confirmed Monday.