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President Trump signed an govt motion yesterday geared toward decreasing prescription drug costs for Individuals. A White Home official mentioned the transfer would come with “delivering decrease costs to seniors” and constructing on Medicare’s potential to barter drug costs.
Medicare negotiations on drug costs can occur sooner for capsules than many medication which can be injected.
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- 🎧 The drug value financial savings are baked into the Biden administration legislation that gave Medicare negotiating energy, NPR’s Sydney Lupkin tells Up First. The chief motion asks the well being secretary and Congress to repair what the administration sees as a flaw within the legislation. Presently, prescription capsules like some most cancers medication are eligible for negotiation prior to extra advanced biotech medication just like the rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira. Lupkin says the proposal would degree the enjoying area, however require a change within the legislation. The motion additionally tells officers to search for methods to extend transparency into how pharmacy profit managers, who deal with drug protection for medical health 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 college. 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 apprehensive the Trump administration will transfer past reducing analysis grants. The tax exemption menace affirm their fears. However Trump would not have the whole 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 schools’ tax exemptions. The White Home continues to assert that these actions towards universities are supposed to root out antisemitism on campus.
Decide Paula Xinis has ordered the Trump administration to offer extra particulars on whether or not it has achieved 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 change into one of many highest-profile lawsuits towards Trump’s efforts to extend deportations.
- 🎧 In a listening to yesterday, Xinis granted Abrego Garcia’s legal professionals’ request for the federal government crew to bear a course of known as expedited discovery. This implies authorities officers from Homeland Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the state might be deposed below oath. The decide 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 decide is rising annoyed with the administration’s solutions on what it is doing in response to court docket orders.
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its plans to get rid of 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 through which the Home and Senate can both approve the rescission or enable the cash to be restored.
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A girl seems at books in a library in 2024.
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Prose To The Folks, a guide 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 guide’s editor, explains that she sees these bookstores as being transformative, akin to Black schools. However, she notes that they’ve usually been understudied. Mitchell hopes readers might 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., hearken to a number of featured bookstore house owners inform the tales of their outlets. 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 affix the Grannies Worldwide Soccer Event; you simply should be below 50 years previous. GIFT believes you might be 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 sector. Of the taking part groups — from rural Kenya to suburban France — many gamers grew up in worlds the place soccer was for boys. As adults, they usually swallowed their ambitions to create space for many who depend upon them. Now, you possibly can see it on their faces whereas competing: They’re making up for misplaced time.
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That is the primary confirmed stay commentary of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its pure habitat. The crew on Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Analysis Vessel Falkor captured footage of the almost one foot squid at a depth of 1,968 ft, utilizing their remotely operated automobile “SuBastian” on March 9, throughout an Ocean Census flagship expedition looking for new marine life.
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- 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 ft beneath the floor within the South Atlantic Ocean.
- How secure 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 hen.”
- Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asking the federal authorities to ban folks 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.
