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Several of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks and appointees are the targets of new violent threats.

A spokesperson for Trump's transition team says warnings of bomb threats and harassment happened last night and this morning.

NPR's Frank Ordonez has details.

A Trump spokesperson, Caroline Levitt, said in a statement

that law enforcement, quote, acted quickly, and that President-elect Trump and the transition team

were grateful for their efforts to ensure the safety of those targeted. The FBI told NPR

it takes all potential threats seriously, and it's aware of, quote, numerous bomb threats and swatting

incidents against Trump nominees. Leavitt did not say who was targeted, but Congresswoman Elise Stefanik,

who has been nominated to serve as Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, said in her own statement

that she was the target of a bomb threat. The New York Republican said she was driving home

to Saratoga County with her husband and their three-year-old son when they were told of a threat

at their residence. Franco, Ordonez, NPR News. Trump is selecting General Keith Kellogg to serve

as assistant to the president and special envoy for Ukraine and Russia,

according to the latest post on his truth social account.

Trump's criticism of the ongoing USA to Ukraine has stoke concerns that when he takes

office, he might press Ukraine to relinquish land to Russia to end the war.

A new ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be holding as thousands of

residents make their way back to southern Lebanon. NPR's Lauren Frere is inside in Lebanon.

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