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Live from NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has just left the White House where she met with President Trump. Trump has resisted supporting Machado to lead Venezuela in place of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Instead, he he has backed Maduro's deputy, Delsey Rodriguez, who was expected to deliver her first State of the Union speech to her country today. On this final day of open enrollment in the U.S. trump announced an outline for new health care legislation. NPR's Selena Simmons Steffen reports. The plan would not immediately help people facing sky high premiums.
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On healthcare.gov what Trump is calling the great health care plan does not have any new or large scale policy ideas in it. It expresses support for price transparency and health saving counts and drug pricing that considers the cost of medicines in other countries, all long standing Republican health policy ideas. In a press call, senior White House officials explained there is no current bill that accomplishes these goals. Rather, the administration is calling on Congress to create a new bill. What this plan would not do is extend the enhanced premium subsidies for Affordable Care act plans. Millions of people's premium costs are double what they were last year. A bipartisan group of senators is working on a deal to increase subsidies to 2025 levels. Selena Simmons Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
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Well, the U.S. says a second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza is beginning. The White House says it includes Gaza's demilitarization and a new Palestinian administration to take over from hamas. More from NPR's Anas Baba in Gaza City.
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On Gaza's streets, there is a feeling that the war hasn't actually ended and that the ceasefire is merely on paper. More than 450 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the past three months since President Trump declared the war over. Abu Abdurrahman, like many Palestinians in Gaza today, is living in a makeshift tent with his wife and kids after their home was destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. He says their hopes for the first phase of the deal haven't materialized yet. His family is freezing this winter with no proper shelter. He says he hopes the next phase will lead to Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, more aid and the start of reconstruction. Anas Baba and Pyrenewes, Gaza.
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European forces, including from G7 countries, Germany and France, have arrived in Greenland, an autonomous region within the Kingdom of Denmark that President Trump covets. The White House says the increased European military presence will not deter Trump's claims in the Arctic. At last check on Wall street, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 329 points, more than half a percent at 49,478. From Washington, this is NPR News. The Senate's delayed today's vote on a cryptocurrency bill. NPR's Maria Aspen reports. A delay comes after the CEO of a major crypto company publicly criticized the legislation.
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Traditional banks have long dominated finance, while younger crypt companies also have powerful supporters in Washington, including President Trump. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who runs the largest US Crypto exchange, posted on X that his company, quote, can't support the bill as written. Then Republican Senator Tim Scott, who chairs the Banking Committee, announced that the vote was postponed as bipartisan negotiations continue. Maria Aspen, NPR News.
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Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people in an alleged point shaving scheme in college basketball. The indictment says conspirators bribe players from 17 Division 1 teams to change the outcomes of dozens of games. Here's NPR's Becky Sullivan.
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The indictment names 20 college basketball players and six people who allegedly conspired to fix the games. Prosecutors say the scheme involved teams that were favored to lose a game or the first half of a game. Defendants are accused of bribing players with 10 to $30,000 apiece to deliberately underperform so that their team would lo more than the spread set by betting markets. Then they'd bet on the team to lose and reap the winnings. In all, prosecutors say the conspirators attempted to fix at least 29 NCAA games involving teams like Georgetown, Butler and St. John's in a statement, NCAA President Charlie Baker said investigations are complete or ongoing of the teams involved, along with 40 players, 11 players so far have been banned from competition.
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That's Becky Sullivan reporting. It's npr.
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