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Duahli Sai Kautau
LIVE from NPR News in New York City, I'm Duahli Sai Kautau. Ahead of back to back talks with the new Department of Government efficiency heads Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Mus. Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that few details will be released about the Capitol Hill meetings, but that the focus is on making government leaner and more focused on its objectives.
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Mike Johnson
There's an enormous amount of waste, fraud and abuse in the government, and I think everyone knows that intuitively. And so the efforts here, both with our subcommittees that are being created here and with the Doge effort itself, will be to explore that, to investigate it and lay it bare for the American people to see.
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Duahli Sai Kautau
He said the big government Democrats are in charge until January, saying they are spending money recklessly and he wants to claw that back. Under Donald Trump's second administration, French President Emmanuel Macron said he will name a new prime minister in the coming days. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. He spoke a day after the prime minister and the government were ousted in a no confidence vote.
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Emmanuel Macron
Macron gave a sort of we can do it pep talk to the nation. He said extremists on the right and left got together to overthrow the government in defiance of the republic. They were not thinking of you or the well being of the country, he said, but of their own political futures. He said he was not to blame for the country's fragmented political situation and that he would complete his term. Macron challenged the French to use the same energy and spirit of cooperation that produced the Olympic Games and renovated Notre Dame Cathedral in just five years to make their own nation stronger, more innovative and productive. The world admired us, he said. Let's show them what we can do. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
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Duahli Sai Kautau
International health authorities are monitoring a mysterious illness circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo. NPR's Gabrielle Emmanuel reports. In southwestern Congo, Congo, there have been almost 400 cases and 79 deaths.
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Gabrielle Emmanuel
The symptoms include fever, headache, cough and sometimes breathing difficulties. Most of those affected are children. The cases were first detected in late October, but the national government was not informed until December 1st. Now Congolese and international teams have gone to the remote area to investigate. Jean Kaseya heads the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Jean Kaseya
Is it an infectious disease? Is this a bacterial infection? Is it a fungal infection There are so many things we don't know.
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Gabrielle Emmanuel
Testing results from so called Disease X are expected in the next day or two. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
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Duahli Sai Kautau
The New York City Police Department has released new photos of a white male wanted for questioning in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. You are listening to NPR News from New York. At an emergency meeting in South Korea's national assembly, the head of that country's ruling People's Power Party, Han Dong Hoon, called for the immediate suspension of President Yoon Suk Yeol to protect the Republic of Korea and its people and to avoid what he said are extreme actions similar to martial law. This as protesters continue to hold hourly strikes, calling for a thorough investigation of Yoon. Opposition parties have set a parliamentary impeachment motion vote for this Saturday. A new study finds people in the habit of eating dark chocolate may have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports. The study adds to the evidence that compounds that compounds found in cocoa can have health benefits.
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Chi Sun
People who ate about an ounce of dark chocolate a day over many years were about 21% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. But study author Chi sun of the TH Chan School of Public Health at Harvard says there was no reduction in risk among those who ate milk chocolate.
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Allison Aubrey
We know it contains a lot of sugar, citric fat and has lower contents of cocoa.
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Chi Sun
Prior research has shown that the polyphenols in cacao may help lower blood pressure and help improve insulin sensitivity. The researchers say eating small amounts can bring another benefit, too, the joy that comes from eating a nice piece of chocolate. Alison Aubrey, NPR News.
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Duahli Sai Kautau
Former U.S. senator David Perdue of Georgia is President Elect Donald Trump's pick to be ambassador to China. I'm Dawahli Sai Kautau, NPR News, in New York.
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