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Ryland Barton
In Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The White House says President Trump will use his State of the Union address tonight to argue he and the Republicans in control of Congress are best suited to continue tackling the public's concerns about the cost of living. But according to the latest NPR PBS News Marist poll, most voters say the country is worse off than a year ago and the State of the Union is not strong. Deanna Killen is a Republican from Texas. Honestly, I didn't think we could much worse than what it's been. But yeah, I don't feel we're improving at all. I feel like we're going in the opposite direction. And according to the group's poll from earlier this month, 65% of people in the US say immigration enforcement has gone too far after federal agents killed two protesters in Minnesota. Karen Borman is a Democrat in New York. I'm glad the southern border is closed, but I don't agree with the deportation policy of his. Several Democrats in Congress have said they'll skip Trump's speech in protest. U.S. customs agents are collecting new global tariffs of 10%, not the 15% tariffs the president had announced over the weekend. Farmers are scrambling to make sense of the tariffs just ahead of planting and harvesting some of spring's first crops. Northwest Public Broadcasting's Anna King reports.
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Anna King
In this field north of Pasco, Washington, are recently mown down asparagus ferns. The ground will be tilled up soon, ready for spring. Tariffs could really shift the domestic asparagus market.
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Ryland Barton
It has the potential to help the domestic industry in the short term, but it is disruptive to the marketplace.
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Anna King
That's Ellen Schreiber, who heads up the Washington Asparagus Commission. He says farmers might not have to ship crops far away if they're not competing with Peru and Mexico. But it's still not yet clear if the tariffs will stick. For NPR News, I'm Anna King.
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Ryland Barton
The House of Representatives today narrowly rejected a bipartisan aviation safety bill written after a mid air collision near Washington, D.C. that claimed 67 lives. NPR's Joel Rose reports. The vote came a day after the Pentagon abandoned, abruptly withdrew support for the bill.
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Joel Rose
The ROTOR act, as the bill is known, would require wider use of a safety system known as ADS B, which can transmit an aircraft's location. The Senate approved the bill unanimously in December. It also has wide support from families of the crash victims. But the Pentagon has reservations. After supporting the ROTOR act last year, the Pentagon said Monday that it could create unresolved budgetary burdens and operational security risks under House procedures. The ROTOR act needed a two thirds majority to pass, but came up just short. More than 130 Republicans voted against it, including several powerful committee chairmen who are pushing their own bipartisan safety bill. Joel Rose, NPR news, Washington.
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Ryland Barton
The U.S. stock market rose today. The S&P 500 and Dow both climbed more than three quarters of a percent, and the NASDAQ gained 1%. This is NPR News. French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of the Louvre Museum's president. Laurence Descartes had been under fire in the wake of an embarrassing heist of the French crown jewels. Thieves took less than eight minutes to steal more than $100 million worth of the Napoleonic era jewels. The company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy says it will cut their prices by hundreds of dollars. NPR's Sidney Lupkin has more on the popular obesity and diabetes drugs.
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Sidney Lupkin
The Danish drug company Novo Nordisk now charges more than $1,000 a month for its blockbuster drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. That's the list price, the one that plays a role in which drugs insurers choose to cover and what the patient ultimately pays out of pocket at the pharmacy counter. Starting seven, the list price for the drugs will drop to $675 for a month's supply. That's also when lower negotiated prices for Medicare kick in. The company already offers discounts for patients paying cash, but those prices aren't changing for now. Novo Nordisk's pricing announcement follows disappointing study results for its experimental new obesity drug, which caused its shares to drop 16% on Monday. Sidi Lupkin, NPR News.
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Ryland Barton
The tiny Norwegian soccer team of Bodo Glimt has pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history by knocking out Italian giant Inter Milan. The team from north of the Arctic Circle has produced one shock after another following wins against legendary teams like Manchester City and Atletico Madrid last month. Man City players refunded fans who traveled north to watch their team fall to the unlikely foe, calling the loss embarrassing. This is NPR News.
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