Good morning. Today, how the Pentagon is evaluating those drug war strikes in the Caribbean

as part of its internal review. We'll break it down with a military jag.

Also, today the machine in the dark, the future of cyber attacks.

It's always going to be this cat and mouse game.

That's what cybersecurity has been for decades.

Only with AI, the damage can happen much faster.

And music critic Arsinio Orteza is back with two more Christmas picks.

We went into the studio with the intention of making a Christmas album and

churned out quite a bit of music. It's Tuesday, December 9th. This is The World and Everything

in it from listeners-supported World Radio. I'm Mary R Reichard. And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.

Time for the news. Here's Kent Covington. President Trump is giving farmers some $12 billion in aid to

help as they struggle to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs. The move comes after the

president raised tariffs on China as part of a broader trade war.

This relief will provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get this year's harvest to market

and look ahead to next year's crops and it'll help them continue their efforts to lower food prices.

China has since agreed to buy more U.S. soybeans, but sales

so far have been slow. Most farmers have backed Trump politically, but some of the industry have

voiced concerns over tariff policies. Trump, however, says tariffs will help pay for the new program.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins said farmers will get the money by the end of February.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a major case testing how much power a president has to fire leaders of independent federal agencies.

The dispute centers on President Trump's removal of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause,

a move that challenges

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