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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Affordable Care act tax credits that were expanded during the pandemic are set to expire in the roughly two weeks as NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports. Competing plans to address health care costs failed to advance in the Senate.
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Deirdre Walsh
On Thursday, Senate Democrats proposed extending existing health care subsidies for three years. Four Republicans backed that bill, but it failed to get the 60 votes to advance. A Republican bill to give consumers up to $1,500 to use in health savings accounts also failed to advance. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed the GOP for blocking action weeks before people will face spikes in health care costs.
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Chuck Schumer
Now. Republicans have all but guaranteed that tens of millions of people will see their premiums double or triple or more next year.
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Deirdre Walsh
House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing the House will vote on some health care bill, but there is no agreement on the details. Swing district House Republicans are working to force a vote to extend the ACA subsidies for one or two years. Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol Republicans.
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Shea Stevens
In Indiana's Senate have rejected White House pressure to create more GOP districts. As Ben Thorpe of member station WFYI reports, they voted down a new congressional map that was created to give the GOP an advantage in next year's midterm elections.
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Ben Thorpe
There were protesters against redistricting that you could hear from inside the Senate chamber today. And looming over everything was this pressure from the Trump administration. Here's one of the Republicans who opposed the new voting map, State Senator Spencer.
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State Senator Spencer
Deary, and as long as I have breath, I will use my voice to resist a federal government that attempts to bully, direct and control this state or any state. Giving the federal government more power is not conservative.
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Ben Thorpe
Opponents also noted that states usually redistrict early in the decade after the census comes in. Republicans just passed the current map in 2021.
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Shea Stevens
Ben Thorpe, in Indianapolis, the World Health Organization is again asserting that there is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that the Trump administration says otherwise.
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Jonathan Lambert
This fall, the U.S. centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its website to say that a link between vaccines and autism can't be ruled out. That reversal in guidance has been taken further by President Trump, who has repeatedly suggested vaccines can cause autism. Now WHO is releasing its own review of the evidence. Its medical experts analyzed more than 30 studies conducted over the past 15 years. Here's who Director General Tedros Adonam Ghebreyesus.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
This is the fourth such review of the evidence. All reached the same conclusion. Vaccines do not cause autism.
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Jonathan Lambert
The WHO says that over the past 50 years, childhood immunizations have saved at least 154 million lives.
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Shea Stevens
This is NPR. A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department's latest attempt to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James. Two federal grand juries had already rejected the case, citing the illegal appointment of the prosecutor who filed the charges. The Walt Disney Company has signed a $1 billion deal that allows its characters to appear on OpenAI's video platform Sora. Under the agreement, NPR's Andrew Limbong reports that Disney becomes a major OpenAI customer.
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Andrew Limbong
Starting 2026, users will be able to use Sora to gin up their own videos using Mickey Mouse, Ariel, Captain America, Luke Skywalker, and 200 other characters from Disney, Star wars and Marvel worlds, according to a joint statement put out by the two companies. The agreement does not include any talent, likenesses or voices. As a part of the deal, Disney will be using OpenAI technology to build products and tools, and a few of the videos created on Sora will be available to stream on Disney. Andrew Limbang, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
According to the United nations, more than 800,000 people in Gaza are facing the risk of flooding in already deluged camps. A winter storm has drenched the camps where Palestinians sought refuge after their homes were destroyed during the war with Israel. Several buildings have collapsed in the territory, and aid groups say there are too few supplies for shelter. Meanwhile, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees says cold weather, overcrowding and unsanitary conditions all increase the risk of illness and infection in the camps. U.S. futures are mixed in after hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR News.
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