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For example, COVID-19. The WHO was instrumental in sharing data among countries. It also convinced China to release the genetic sequence of the virus in 2020 that paved the way for scientists here in the U.S. to develop a vaccine. So why is Trump taking this stand against the organization?
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The World Health Organization has disputed claims that it was deferential to China. But Diamond says a lot of the damage is already done. Because of Trump's criticism, Diamond writes, WHO has become a punching bag for China hawks. One of Trump's lines is China doesn't pay its fair share.
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The United States contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to the WHO, roughly 20 percent of its entire budget, while China contributes about 40 million. Lots of public health experts agree that some kind of change is needed.
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But many have expressed grave concerns about the U.S. leaving altogether.
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In recent days, Trump has indicated he would consider rejoining the WHO if reforms happen. Diamond told us what he thinks that might take.
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As all of this plays out, senators in Washington are preparing to question Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee to lead Health and Human Services, who would play a key role in executing his domestic health agenda. That confirmation hearing begins tomorrow.
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Now to Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinian people have started to make the long and difficult journey back home after many months of trying to outrun Israeli airstrikes. Many are returning to rubble. Most of Gaza has been destroyed by Israel's intensive bombing campaign. NPR visited Rafah in southern Gaza for the first time in eight months. Producer Anas Baba described the scene for NPR.
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Baba himself is one of many people returning to his home in Gaza City. Here's how he described what it felt like to be walking among massive crowds of Palestinians doing the same on NPR.
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President Trump has said Palestinians should leave Gaza altogether, and he called on Jordan and Egypt to accept Palestinians as refugees so the world can, quote, just clean out that whole thing. But many Palestinians have always been determined to stay, to never give up fighting for their homeland. Here's how one Palestinian man reacted to Trump's comments when asked about them by the BBC.
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But first, Donald Trump is rapidly changing America's public health priorities at home and abroad. Already, Trump has temporarily blocked officials at Health and Human Services, the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH from communicating with the public until at least February 1st.
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It's unclear if the president's comments signaled a formal change in U.S. policy. No recent president has supported or suggested long-term departures of Palestinians from Gaza. But that idea has been suggested before by far-right members of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's government. Meanwhile, leaders of Egypt and Jordan have flatly rejected Trump's proposal.
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It was also rejected by the Palestinian Authority. Beyond rebuilding, Palestinians remain in desperate need of aid and supplies. Starting this week, Israel says it plans to enforce a decision to close down the Gaza operations for UNRWA, which is the primary aid agency for Palestinians.
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This decision came after the United Nations fired nine UNRWA staff members for possible involvement in the October 7th attack on Israel. The agency has protested Israel's decision to shutter the Gaza headquarters in East Jerusalem. And The Guardian reports, as part of that standoff, the United Nations did not create a contingency plan for how to keep aid flowing to Gaza in UNRWA's absence.
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That could be a huge problem because to avoid a breach of the ceasefire agreement, at least 600 truckloads of humanitarian aid must enter Gaza every day for the next four or so weeks. Let's turn now to look at how New York City is preparing for the possibility of immigration raids and mass deportations, which President Trump made a cornerstone of his campaign.
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New York is a city of immigrants, home to a wide mix of people from the Caribbean to the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and more. Since 2022, more than 200,000 migrants have arrived in the city, some sent by Republican governors along the U.S.-Mexico border. More than 40,000 are children. In recent years, to accommodate this surge in arrivals, several local hotels have converted into shelters.
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Gwen Hogan, a reporter for local outlet The City, has been reporting on these shelters since Trump took office, and she has met families who are terrified of being separated.
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, January 28th. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, what Palestinians are finding as they return to Gaza, how New York, a city of immigrants, is preparing for Trump's deportation crackdown, and why a new Chinese AI is disrupting American tech and financial markets.
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His administration scrubbed information about abortion from federal health websites and shut down a site created by the Biden administration dedicated to reproductive rights and resources.
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Last week, the Trump administration cleared the way for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct raids at places that were once considered out of bounds, like churches, hospitals and schools. Hogan spoke to some parents who are afraid to send their kids to school. One father told her he sent his kids with copies of their asylum applications in their backpacks.
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Hogan told us how city officials have been preparing the community for encounters with ICE agents.
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Adams is a Democrat, but he has been cozying up to Trump in recent weeks, meeting with him, attending the inauguration. Adams was indicted in September for federal bribery, fraud and campaign finance charges, all of which he denies. And there is widespread speculation that Adams could be seeking a pardon from Trump. There's also public opinion to contend with.
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While many New Yorkers lean liberal and want to be accommodating to the mass number of migrants arriving, others have real concerns about resources being stretched too thin. At one recent town hall in Corona, Queens, a community with a large immigrant population, someone asked Mayor Adams what his message is to all of these parents who are afraid to send their kids to school. He said,
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He's also halted the HIV AIDS prevention program PEPFAR, which distributes HIV medications in poorer countries, even going so far as to tell organizations on the ground not to distribute the medications even if they've already been purchased. And Trump says he'll pull the United States out of the World Health Organization. The AP reports that U.S.
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Adams said he thinks all kids should go to school, and he said the city would protect documented and undocumented students. In a local TV interview, Adams said he had been told that potential raids would only target people accused of criminal behavior.
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Beyond that, Adams has made no public show of support or opposition to Trump's promises to target a population that makes up a significant part of the fabric of New York City. Here are a few other stories we're watching today.
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Tech stocks took a big hit Monday after Chinese startup DeepSeek released its latest AI models it claims are just as good and in some cases better than leading American technology. DeepSeek claims it's cheaper to operate, too. The company's DeepSeek V3 is now more popular than ChatGPT in Apple's App Store. The announcements triggered a huge sell-off of chipmaker NVIDIA.
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The company saw shares plummet as much as 18 percent, according to NBC News. But American users quickly also saw the extent of Chinese censorship. The Washington Post reports that one user captured DeepSeek deleting a response in real time about Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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And the app was unable to answer questions about the Chinese government's brutal crackdown of protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Now to a workplace trend that we have been following, rising interest in making the four-day workweek a reality. It's only Tuesday, but if you were in the UK, your workweek could be halfway over by now.
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The Guardian reports 1,000 workers there are getting an extra day off with no loss of pay as part of the latest pilot program run by the non-profit group Four Day Week Campaign. 200 businesses in the UK have already made four-day weeks permanent, according to the campaign. Trial results will be presented to the UK's new Labour government over the summer in the hopes that it'll lead to reforms.
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And finally, you may have heard an ad for something called AG1 while listening to your favourite podcast.
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The uber-popular diet supplement has become ubiquitous among the influencer and celebrity set, and it's now headed for vending machines and grocery stores all across the country. Fortune looks into the company's health claims. Some nutritional scientists say its so-called science-driven formula lacks rigor and that it's nothing more than an expensive multivitamin.
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But AG1's CEO tells Fortune the company conducts rigorous clinical studies and welcomes criticism. The powder costs about $100 a month. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we've got a narrated article coming up next.
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Time takes a look at the struggle to diagnose long COVID patients and how some have been pressured to seek psychiatric treatment for little understood medical ailments. If you're listening in the podcast app, follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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public health officials were instructed to stop working with the WHO effective immediately.
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That's Washington Post White House reporter Dan Diamond.