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Ryland Barton
Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. In recent weeks, President Trump has carried out a series of strikes on boats in the Caribbean, saying he's targeting Venezuelan drug cartels. He also says the South American nation has, quote, emptied its prison into the U.S. now he says he's expanding the campaign from sea to land. As NPR's Tom Bowman explains, experts are questioning the legality of the attacks.
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Tom Bowman
I have talked to a number of lawyers, former jags, law professors. They all have serious concerns about the legal rationale that's provided here. They say that it's full of holes, that it's essentially the president determining on his own by diktat that we are in an armed conflict and that that gives him the right to conduct these arms strikes and, in essence, to kill people on boats in the Caribbean.
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Ryland Barton
NPR's Ryan Lucas reporting. The Trump administration has struck a third drug company, struck a deal with a third drug company as part of its push to lower drug prices in America. This one focuses on drugs used in in vitro fertilization. NPR's Sidney Lupkin reports.
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Sidney Lupkin
President Trump announced drugmaker EMD Sirono has agreed to lower prices for its fertility drugs like Gonal F, sold directly to patients not using their insurance. All told, the company's IVF drugs will be offered at an 84% discount. But the deal doesn't include EMD Sirono's other drugs for things like cancer and multiple sclerosis. The announcement is part of the president's push to bring US Drug prices in line with those paid in other countries, an effort he calls most favored nation pricing. And it follows his campaign promise to make IVF more affordable. A typical IVF cycle can cost as much as $30,000, and while drugs are part of that, they aren't the majority of the total cost. For its part, EMD Sirono will get expedited FDA review of a new drug and relief from certain tariffs. Sidney Lupkin, NPR News, NPR.
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Ryland Barton
Founding mother Susan Stamberg has died at the age of 87. Colleagues saw her as a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself. NPR's David Folkenflick pays tribute.
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David Folkenflick
Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women. Stamberg said NPR's first program director, Bill Simmering, was brave to put her behind the microphone.
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Susan Stamberg
And he said two magical words to me very early on. He said, be yourself. And what he meant was, we want to hear voices on our ear that we would hear across our dinner tables at night or at the local grocery store.
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David Folkenflick
She hosted All Things Considered in Weekend Edition and then became a special correspondent. She found joy in the creativity of culture, the spark of science, even the humanity in politics to this day. Susan Stamberg's recorded voice announces each floor on the elevators at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. third floor newsroom David Folkenflick, NPR News.
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Ryland Barton
Stocks slumped after a turbulent day of trading today. This is NPR News. President Trump has been showcasing plans for a major new monument that he wants to add to Washington, D.C. as NPR's Anastasia Tsioukis reports, it's a grand, classically styled arch topped with eagles and a gilded winged statue.
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Anastasia Tsioukis
At two events this week, President Trump showed off models of the proposed arch. The plan's neoclassical design is similar to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and echoes the D.C. architecture favored by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Online, it's already being called the Arc. To Trump, journalists asked the president who the proposed arch would be built for. He replied, me. It's also being discussed as a celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary. The arch would sit in a traffic circle between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial and could potentially dwarf the Lincoln Monument in scale. Anastasia Tsiolkis, NPR News, New York.
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Ryland Barton
The EU is laying out a plan to ensure that Europe can defend itself against an outside attack by the end of the decade amid concerns of Russian aggression. The plan includes a system to track and disable drones following a series of troubling airspace violations across Europe over the last month. And the last surviving member of the first Mount Everest expedition team, Concha Sherpa, has died at 92. He was part of the 1953 team that helped New Zealander Edmund Hillary reach the summit last year. He expressed concerns about overcrowding on Everest and urged respect for the mountain. Born in 1933, he began mountaineering at age 19 and was active until age 50. This is NPR News from Washington.
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