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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen the head of a pro-Trump think tank to be as U.S.

Agricultural Secretary.

As NPR, Sarah McCammon reports, Brooke Rawlins is slated to lead the agency responsible for the nation's farm and nutrition programs.

Brooke Rawlins worked for Trump's first administration, most notably as

director of the Domestic Policy Council. After leaving the White House, Rollins was among a group of

senior advisors who set up the America First Policy Institute to promote Trump's ideas.

She's now the nonprofit group's president and CEO.

Rollins has an agriculture degree from Texas A&M and a law degree from the University of Texas.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has around 100,000 employees and oversees several large programs,

including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Farm Subsidies.

Sarah McCammon, NPR News.

Israeli airstrikes hit the heart of Lebanon's capital early this morning,

killing at least 15 people, injuring dozens of others.

Israeli reports say it was targeting a Hezbollah leader in an area of central Beirut away from the group's base of operations in the city's southern

suburbs. And here's Lauren Freyer has more from Beirut. The Israeli military often issues evacuation

orders before it strikes. But this one came without warning. At 4 a.m. local time, a series of

huge blasts that leveled an eight-story building and shook people in their beds a mile away.

Beirut still smells of explosives hours later. Local TV shows a massive crater, one building collapsed,

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