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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson.

Today is Wednesday, November 27, 2024.

This is the excerpt.

Today we look at the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Plus, what Mexico's president says about Trump's tariff threats, and Fannie and Freddie will back homes costing nearly a million dollars as prices surge.

Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah reached a ceasefire deal yesterday. The move brings a path to end a war that's killed thousands of people since it was first ignited by the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli approval paved the way for a ceasefire declaration by President Joe Biden and French

President Emmanuel Macron, who brokered the deal in a joint statement. Biden announced the ceasefire

in a speech yesterday from the White House Rose Garden. Over the next 60 days, the Lebanese army

and state security forces will deploy and take control of their own territory once again.

Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon

will not be allowed to be rebuilt.

And over the next 60 days, Israel will gradually withdraw its

remaining forces.

And civilians, civilians on both sides, will soon be able to

safely return to their communities.

Biden added that this is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities.

The agreement is not expected to have any material impact on the war in Gaza that started 14 months ago.

Officials in China, Mexico, and Canada are criticizing a pledge made by President-elect Donald Trump on social media to impose new tariffs on all three of the United States' largest trading partners on the first day of his presidency.

Trump said he would sign an executive order immediately after his inauguration, introducing a 25% tariff on all goods

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