The Trump Transition’s Secret Funding, and a Campus Crackdown

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<p>Plus, payouts for finding pandemic fraud.  </p><p> </p><p>Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyt-audio/id1549293936"><strong>download</strong></a> the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/audio"><strong>sign up</strong></a> for our weekly newsletter.<br /> </p><p>Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. </p><p><strong>On Today’s Episode:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/us/politics/trump-cabinet-america-first.html" target="_blank"><strong>Trump’s Cabinet: Many Ideologies Behind the Veil of ‘America First,’</strong></a> <i>by David E. Sanger</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/us/politics/donald-trump-2024-campaign-transition.html" target="_blank"><strong>Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money</strong></a>, <i>by Ken Bensinger and David A. Fahrenthold</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/world/middleeast/lebanon-dahiya-hezbollah-israel-airstrikes.html" target="_blank"><strong>On the Outskirts of Beirut, a Crowd Watches the War, and Waits for Its End</strong></a>, <i>by Christina Goldbaum</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/us/university-crackdowns-protests-israel-hamas-war.html" target="_blank"><strong>How Universities Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism</strong></a>, <i>by Isabelle Taft</i></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/us/politics/pandemic-fraud-lawsuits.html" target="_blank"><strong>They Investigated Pandemic Fraud, Then Earned Thousands</strong></a>, <i>by Madeleine Ngo</i></p> <p><p>Subscribe today at <a href="http://nytimes.com/podcasts">nytimes.com/podcasts</a> or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher">https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher</a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.</p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>