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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes how important it is that citizens perceive political leaders to be healthy.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that Mexico has entered a new political era with today's inauguration of President Vicente Fox. His election in July was a huge defeat for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as PRI, which had dominated Mexican politics since 1929. Fox, a business executive in his previous life, has named a cabinet packed with other businessmen. They began to take up their responsibilities as the day began. Fox, an avowed Roman Catholic, began HIS day by praying at the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint. Later, he took the oath of office in the country's first peaceful transfer of power to an opposition party.

President Biden and former President Trump will debate each other. The earliest general-election debate in history will take place in June.

Twenty-five former presidents of the D.C. Bar say the lawyers for President Trump have "have willingly agreed to become the instruments of a wholesale attack on the integrity of the democratic process."

The impeachment trial is over. But other investigations are still ongoing.

President Biden is in Lima, Peru, where he's meeting with leaders from the Asia-Pacific region, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. It's expected to be their final meeting.

Ukraine is concerned about what the Trump administration's efforts to improve relations with Russia will mean for its relations with Washington. Poroshenko wanted to meet with Trump before Putin did.

The Israeli prime minister said his country has a "profound disagreement" with the White House on nuclear talks with Iran, and it is his duty to speak up on an issue that affects Israel's survival.

Hear politicians in their own words speaking about Hurricane Helene recovery and the peaceful transfer of power.