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In the present day’s high tales
President Trump signed an government motion yesterday geared toward reducing prescription drug costs for Individuals. A White Home official mentioned the transfer would come with “delivering lower prices to seniors” and constructing on Medicare’s capacity to barter drug costs.
Medicare negotiations on drug costs can occur sooner for tablets than many medicine which can be injected.
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- 🎧 The drug worth financial savings are baked into the Biden administration regulation that gave Medicare negotiating energy, NPR’s Sydney Lupkin tells Up First. The manager motion asks the well being secretary and Congress to repair what the administration sees as a flaw within the regulation. Presently, prescription tablets like some most cancers medicine are eligible for negotiation earlier than extra complicated biotech medicine just like the rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira. Lupkin says the proposal would degree the enjoying discipline, however require a change within the regulation. The motion additionally tells officers to search for methods to extend transparency into how pharmacy profit managers, who deal with drug protection for medical insurance, are compensated.
Trump threatened yesterday to revoke Harvard College’s tax-exempt standing. This assertion comes a day after the administration’s determination to reduce over $2 billion in federal funding and grants to the varsity. The funding freeze was prompted by the president of Harvard’s refusal to adjust to authorities calls for, together with making adjustments to hiring and admissions insurance policies and eliminating DEI applications.
- 🎧 NPR’s Elissa Nadworny says faculty leaders inform her they’re frightened the Trump administration will transfer past slicing analysis grants. The tax exemption risk affirm their fears. However Trump does not have the entire authority to revoke a university’s tax standing, Nadworny explains. He can use the Worldwide Income Service to do it in uncommon circumstances. A invoice in Congress would give the president and Treasury secretary management over faculties’ tax exemptions. The White Home continues to assert that these actions towards universities are supposed to root out antisemitism on campus.
Choose Paula Xinis has ordered the Trump administration to offer extra particulars on whether or not it has performed sufficient to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return. He’s the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador final month. Abrego Garcia’s household has sued the federal government to convey him again to the U.S. The case has turn into one of many highest-profile lawsuits in opposition to Trump’s efforts to extend deportations.
- 🎧 In a listening to yesterday, Xinis granted Abrego Garcia’s legal professionals’ request for the federal government group to bear a course of referred to as expedited discovery. This implies authorities officers from Homeland Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the state can be deposed below oath. The choose gave either side two weeks to finish the method. NPR’s Ximena Bustillo says the takeaway from yesterday’s listening to is that one other choose is rising annoyed with the administration’s solutions on what it is doing in response to courtroom orders.
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its plans to remove almost all federal funding for public media, which incorporates NPR and PBS, in accordance with a White Home official who spoke to NPR. The memo, which the administration plans to ship to Congress on April 28, will provoke a 45-day interval by which the Home and Senate can both approve the rescission or enable the cash to be restored.
In the present day’s hear
A lady appears to be like at books in a library in 2024.
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Prose To The Individuals, a e book celebrating Black bookstores, simply hit the cabinets. It profiles over 50 bookshops which have formed the nation’s literary panorama. The gathering has been described as a highway journey companion for Black historical past buffs and bookstore fanatics. Katie Mitchell, the e book’s editor, explains that she sees these bookstores as being transformative, akin to Black faculties. However, she notes that they’ve typically been understudied. Mitchell hopes readers can be impressed to go to these bookstores at any time when they discover themselves within the respective cities. From Raleigh, N.C., to Portland, Ore., take heed to a number of featured bookstore house owners inform the tales of their retailers. Click on right here to learn the complete transcript.
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Les Reines du Foot (FRA) vs Vuka Soweto (SA)
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You do not have to be a grandma to hitch the Grannies Worldwide Soccer Match; you simply should be below 50 years previous. GIFT believes you’re by no means too previous to play soccer, and most girls enjoying in GIFT are receiving the adoration they by no means dreamed of on the sphere. Of the collaborating groups — from rural Kenya to suburban France — many gamers grew up in worlds the place soccer was for boys. As adults, they typically swallowed their ambitions to create space for many who rely on them. Now, you’ll be able to see it on their faces whereas competing: They’re making up for misplaced time.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
That is the primary confirmed stay commentary of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its pure habitat. The group on Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Analysis Vessel Falkor captured footage of the almost one foot squid at a depth of 1,968 toes, utilizing their remotely operated car “SuBastian” on March 9, throughout an Ocean Census flagship expedition looking for new marine life.
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ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute
- For the primary time in 100 years since its discovery, a colossal squid has been filmed in its pure habitat. It was noticed almost 2,000 toes beneath the floor within the South Atlantic Ocean.
- How protected is American hen? Trump desires European international locations to start out shopping for U.S. hen, however Europeans have been skeptical over American poultry, calling it “chlorinated chicken.”
- Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asking the federal authorities to ban individuals from utilizing SNAP advantages to purchase sweet and unhealthy drinks in her state. (through Little Rock Public Radio)
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
