The Latest on Donald Trump's transition to the presidency (all times EST):
1 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected a charter school advocate and GOP donor from Michigan to be education secretary.
Betsy DeVos becomes the second woman chosen to fill a spot in Trump's Cabinet. Earlier Wednesday, Trump named South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations earlier in the day.
Both selections require Senate confirmation.
I am honored to work with the President-elect on his vision to make American education great again. The status quo in ed is not acceptable.
— Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVos) November 23, 2016
Together, we can work to make transformational change to ensure every student has the opportunity to fulfill his or her highest potential.
— Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVos) November 23, 2016
Trump calls DeVos "a brilliant and passionate education advocate."
DeVos heads the advocacy group American Federation for Children. She's known for supporting charter schools and vouchers.
Before Trump's announcement, some conservatives were complaining about DeVos' ties to the political establishment. They also warned that she previously supported Common Core standards that Trump railed against during the campaign.
The 58-year-old DeVos is a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman. Her husband, Dick, is an heir to the Amway fortune and a former company president.
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12:20 p.m.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence has visited a community kitchen in Indianapolis — and he's promising an 80-year-old volunteer a ride on the government plane he uses.
Pence and his wife, Karen, have toured the Second Helpings kitchen, where they thanked a few dozen volunteers before chopping up some vegetables.
When volunteer John Spitznogle asked Pence about getting a ride on Air Force One, Pence responded he would line one up aboard the vice president's plane.
The Pences plan to spend Thanksgiving Day in Mississippi, where their son, Michael, is in Marine Corps pilot training.
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11:40 a.m.
Turkey's president is accusing anti-Donald Trump protesters in Western nations of not respecting democracy or the result of the U.S. election.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn) also suggests that any leader who doesn't serve the West's interests is denounced as a despot.
He made the comments in Ankara, Turkey, at meeting of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.
Erdogan said: "In America they started calling Trump a dictator. In various countries of the Europe they spilled into the streets and started saying 'dictator.' Why aren't you respecting the results of the ballot box?"
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10:30 a.m.
Britain's U.N. Ambassador says he looks forward to working closely with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, newly selected to represent the United States at the world body.
Matthew Rycroft praised Haley's record as governor of South Carolina and predicted the relationship between the two countries "will continue to go from strength to strength." Haley must be confirmed for the job by the Senate.
Rycroft told reporters Wednesday that "we literally sit side-by-side in the Security Council and we will continue to be shoulder to shoulder."
Britain and the U.S. are among the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the 15-seat council, along with China, France and Russia.
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9:30 a.m.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she is accepting President-elect Donald Trump's selection of her to be ambassador to the United Nations out of a "sense of duty."
Haley says in a statement Wednesday she will remain in her current job until she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The Republican governor says she is satisfied that she will leave South Carolina on a "very strong footing."
Haley became South Carolina's first female and first minority governor when she took office in 2011.
She says she will "be forever grateful" that South Carolinians "took a chance on a little-known, 38-year old, minority, female governor."
She has two years remaining in her tenure. South Carolina limits its governors to two terms.
Haley spent much of the campaign season criticizing Trump. But on Monday she said none of that came up at their meeting last week in New York.
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8:45 a.m.
President-elect Donald Trump says he intends to nominate Republican Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The job requires Senate approval. If that happens, Haley would become the first female — and first nonwhite — Cabinet-level official in his administration. She's the daughter of Indian immigrants.
Trump says in a statement that Haley is "a proven dealmaker and we look forward to making plenty of deals." Trump says Haley "will be a great leader representing us on the world stage."
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