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Jeanine Herbst (0:14)
Live from NPR News, I'm Jeanine Herbst. At the White House. Today, President Trump says more drug companies, some of the biggest drug makers, have agreed to lower drug prices for Americans.
President Trump (0:26)
They've agreed to offer many of their flagship drugs, really all of their flagship drugs, at heavily discounted, most favored nation's prices. In other words, whatever the drug sells for over the world, in the world, whatever the lowest number is, if it's Germany, if it's in UK anywhere, we will match that price.
Jeanine Herbst (0:51)
Trump says the companies include Santa Fe, Novartis, Behringer, Gilliard, Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech, gsk, Merck and Amgen. He says other countries will pay more for US Drugs, and he says if they don't, he will implement more tariffs. Today's the deadline for the Justice Department to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Last month, President Trump signed a law ordering the records to be released. But Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch tells Fox News that they will only release a partial batch of files today, hundreds of thousands of them and more over the next couple of weeks. He says that's to give them more time to redact names and identifying information about the victims. And here Stephen Fowler has more on.
Stephen Fowler (1:35)
The files, hundreds of gigabytes of digital and physical evidence that the FBI has grand jury files and other things that have already been made public otherwise. It's also worth pointing out the law gives this deadline of 30 days after Trump signed it as a deadline, but there is no enforcement mechanism or penalties or consequences written into the law for this time not being met or any improper redaction of information.
Jeanine Herbst (2:00)
NPR's Stephen Fowler reporting. Online video sharing app TikTok has reached a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors, including the big tech company Oracle, run by billionaire Larry Ellison, who's a longtime ally of President Trump. NPR's Bobby Allen has more.
Bobby Allen (2:18)
After more than five years of intense debate, TikTok's US operations have been sold to a consortium of investors. That group includes software and data center company Oracle, private equity firm Silverlake and mgc, an investment company backed by the United Arab Emirates. Under the terms of the deal, which were confirmed by NPR, current ByteDance investors will keep about a third of the entity and Beijing based bytedance will hold a minority stake. Backers don't expect American users of TikTok to notice any major changes. China Hawks and Washington have been worried about Beijing using TikTok to influence the political views of the 170 million Americans on the app. Yet under the deal, ByteDance will still own the app's algorithm with audits by the new American led entity. Bobby Allen, NPR News.