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What did President Trump say about meeting the Iranian delegation at the UN?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump says US officials met today with an Iranian delegation on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, even as he threatened to annihilate Iran. NPR's Michelle Kalman reports Trump also held talks with Ukraine's president, hoping to find a way to end that war.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says President Trump wants to end the war and has questioned Ukraine's strikes on Russian energy facilities. Zelensky says he told Trump that Ukraine would stop such attacks when Russia ends its bombardment of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
We are ready for energy ceasefire, it doesn't matter. If they will not if they don't want us to attack uh their diesel and refineries and etcetera, so we are ready if they will not attack our energy system, our electricity, heating
system. But he's preparing for another tough winter. Zelensky is asking Trump to raise this with Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this week, since China has influence with Russia. Michelle Kelaman and PR News the United Nations.
How is President Zelensky proposing an energy cease‑fire with Russia?
Вice President J D Vance announced a plan today to remove more than three quarters of a million affordable care act enrollees from public health care exchanges. The administration alleges these individuals were fraudulently enrolled or do not exist. NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin has more.
Today, Vice President Vance said that fraudster brokers were signing up quote phantom people into these plans. Here's Vance.
You have a system where on the one hand brokers are paid money to feed patients into the system, while on the other hand, the government isn't even checking whether the people enrolled are actually eligible for the program. What do you have, of course, rampant, rampant fraud?
So he put the blame on brokers for committing the fraud and announced moves to punish them, like stopping new brokers from registering for the upcoming open enrollment and changing enrollment processes. He said the government would save more than two billion dollars in subsidies they would have been sending to insurance companies for those enrollments.
NPR Selena Simmons Duffin reporting as of earlier this year, about nineteen point two million Americans in are enrolled in ACA marketplace plans.
Why is Vice President JD Vance targeting ACA marketplace fraud and what changes are proposed?
Alcohol use by Americans declined slightly in twenty twenty four overall. A new study finds that varies by generation. Among older people, alcohol use continued to increase, NPR's Yuki Naguchi reports.
Alcohol consumption, including heavy use, increased dramatically during the pandemic and remains slightly elevated for the U.S. population overall. But the study, which looked at consumption between 2018 and 2024, found younger generations, Gen Z and millennials, alone have steadily decreased consumption since the pandemic. In contrast, among Generation X and those born earlier, alcohol. Alcohol consumption continued to increase. Consumption for men has returned to near pre pandemic levels, but less so for women.
NPR's Yuki Naguchi reporting US stock market closed mix today, it's NPR.
What does the new study reveal about shifting alcohol consumption trends across U.S. generations?
Hurricane Polo is gaining strength as it moves acl along Mexico's southwestern coast as a category five. The National Hurricane Center reports polo is an extremely dangerous storm with winds of 165 miles an hour. Mexican authorities have suspended classes in several coastal areas as polo brushed along the coastline. A 17-year-old girl has accused Braden Peters, a social media influencer who goes by the online name clavicular of rape. NPR's Chloe Veldman reports a representative for Peters said his client denies the allegations.
Twenty-year-old Braden Peters is known for looks maxing, a digital subculture focused on maximizing male physical appearance. According to court records filed in Massachusetts, the teenager began communicating with Peters on Instagram, where he paid her to appear on his livestreams to help increase her profile on social media. Peters then arranged for the miner to come to his home, where, on may twenty third, she alleges he got her drunk on vodka and had sex with her without her consent.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What did President Trump say about meeting the Iranian delegation at the UN?
0:00–1:05
2
How is President Zelensky proposing an energy cease‑fire with Russia?
1:05–2:08
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Why is Vice President JD Vance targeting ACA marketplace fraud and what changes are proposed?
2:08–3:01
4
What does the new study reveal about shifting alcohol consumption trends across U.S. generations?
3:01–4:12
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How are Hurricane Polo and the Saudi Arabian Gulf Cup affecting the latest Middle‑East news roundup?
4:12–4:57