John Rewich
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NPR News: 11-26-2024 7PM EST
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says 22 percent of people with Medicare had a diagnosis of obesity in 2022. John Cauley is a professor of economics and public policy at Cornell University. He says it's an expensive proposal but can end up being more cost-effective in the long run.
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NPR News: 11-26-2024 7PM EST
The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the proposal would add $25 billion in Medicare costs and $11 billion for Medicaid over the next 10 years. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
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NPR News: 04-09-2025 10AM EDT
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NPR News: 01-07-2025 8PM EST
President Carter's term as president ended in 1981. And for the remainder of his life, the longest post-presidency of any American president ever was He focused on making the lives of his fellow men better.
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NPR News: 02-05-2025 3PM EST
On Tuesday, the Postal Service announced an indefinite suspension of processing of incoming packages from China and Hong Kong. That came after President Trump's latest tariffs on China went into effect, and after he banned a tariff exemption for small packages that had become popular with e-commerce platforms. But the Postal Service reversed course today.
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NPR News: 02-05-2025 3PM EST
It says USPS and Customs and Border Protection are working closely together to, quote, China's foreign ministry earlier urged the U.S. to stop politicizing economics and trade, and said China would continue to take necessary measures to safeguard its company's rights and interests. John Rewich, NPR News, Beijing.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 7PM EDT
The study relied on health records of people in their 70s and 80s who lived in Wales in the UK. It found that those who received a shingles vaccine were about 20% less likely than people who didn't to be diagnosed with dementia during a seven-year period. The finding adds to the evidence that viruses that affect the nervous system can increase the risk of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 7PM EDT
Shingles is caused by a herpes virus that can remain dormant in nerve cells for decades before re-emerging when age or illness weakens the immune system. The same herpes virus also causes chickenpox. Researchers don't know why the vaccine appears to reduce the risk of dementia. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 5PM EDT
China says the exercises were staged as a warning to Taiwan's leader and others on the self-governed island who it says are seeking independence. Beijing considers Taiwan an inseparable part of China. Taiwan's President Lai Ching-de called China a foreign hostile force last month. China's military says the exercises practiced precision strikes, area denial, and blockades.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 5PM EDT
It's the latest in a growing campaign of drills and other Chinese military activity around Taiwan, seen as intimidating the island. The Chinese military also separately conducted live-fire strike drills in the East China Sea between Taiwan and Japan.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 5PM EDT
The State Department said China's military exercises and rhetoric exacerbate tensions and put the region's security and the world's prosperity at risk. John Rewich, NPR News, Beijing.
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NPR News: 12-31-2024 6PM EST
The hope with these maps is to provide that information to people that care about managing species that could cause impacts in their area so that they can pinpoint where to potentially look for them once they arrive and address the issue before it becomes a high-cost management problem.
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NPR News: 05-20-2025 7PM EDT
The test detects sticky amyloid plaques in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer's. Last week, it became the first test of its kind to receive clearance from the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Howard Fillett, chief science officer of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, says the move gives primary care doctors a better way to evaluate patients with memory problems.
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NPR News: 05-20-2025 7PM EDT
I think the blood test is going to really revolutionize the way people with Alzheimer's are cared for and diagnosed. It's a really big breakthrough. Fillett says right now, primary care doctors correctly diagnose about 60% of patients with Alzheimer's. Adding the blood tests promises to boost that to more than 90%. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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NPR News: 12-10-2024 6PM EST
National security advisor Jake Sullivan is going to Israel to talk with U.S. allies about what can be done to stabilize the situation in Syria. where rebels overthrew the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the U.S. wants to make sure that the aspirations of the Syrian people for self-governance are met.
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NPR News: 12-10-2024 6PM EST
And for that reason, he said, U.S. strikes on ISIS camps in Syria will continue. Kirby said that so far, all the opposition groups who toppled Assad, including Islamist insurgents, are saying the right things. But he said, quote, we have to watch what they actually do. Mara Liason, NPR News, the White House.
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NPR News: 02-03-2025 8PM EST
The implanted device delivers electrical pulses to the vagus nerve, which connects the brain with internal organs and the immune system. Dr. Kevin Tracy of Northwell Health in New York says the pulses trigger a reflex that puts the brakes on inflammation in joints.
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NPR News: 02-03-2025 8PM EST
A study of 242 patients with rheumatoid arthritis found that the device, made by Setpoint Medical, was able to reduce pain and inflammation and slow the damage in affected joints. The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the device and is likely to make a decision by the end of the year. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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NPR News: 06-03-2025 7AM EDT
Pearl Street is a welcoming environment for all residents and visitors. We will make sure to keep it doubly safe and maintain it as Boulder's living room and a place to come enjoy community life.
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NPR News: 12-02-2024 8PM EST
Sir Elton John wrote the original score for the musical The Devil Wears Prada, which just opened in London. At a gala for the show, John took a moment on stage to address his medical situation. Here he is as heard on a video posted to YouTube.
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NPR News: 12-02-2024 8PM EST
He also thanked his husband for supporting him during this time. On a recent interview with Good Morning America, John said that his loss of vision has affected his ability to get in the studio and record music. Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.
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NPR News: 03-20-2025 4PM EDT
One of the greatest correlates to seeing what makes life great is whether or not you live in a society that has community and where people feel safe.
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NPR News: 01-02-2025 5PM EST
We're going to continue to relentlessly pursue ISIS and other terrorist organizations where they are. and they'll find no safe harbor here.
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NPR News: 05-25-2025 11AM EDT
The bill would require Texas public school classrooms to display the King James Bible version of the Ten Commandments. During debate over the measure, Democratic Representative John Bryant argued the bill discriminates against the nearly one-third of Texans who are neither Christian nor Jewish.
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NPR News: 05-25-2025 11AM EDT
The bill is scheduled for a final vote Sunday. It's expected to pass and be signed by Governor Greg Abbott. A similar law passed by Louisiana last year is on hold pending a review by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston.
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NPR News: 05-25-2025 10AM EDT
Up for grabs are 285 seats to the National Assembly and 24 state houses. They include a controversial new position, governor of Ezequibo. That's an oil-rich region of neighboring Guyana that Venezuela's authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, has threatened to annex. the opposition is divided over what to do.
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NPR News: 05-25-2025 10AM EDT
Its leader, Maria Corina Machado, points to evidence that Maduro stole last year's presidential election and claims voting today would legitimize his power grab. In a video posted on X, she said, this isn't an election, it's a farce. That's why on Sunday, I'm asking you to stay home. But other opposition politicians say boycotting the election could backfire by giving Maduro even more power.
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NPR News: 04-20-2025 4PM EDT
Senator Kennedy told NBC News Abrego Garcia never should have been sent to El Salvador.
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NPR News: 04-20-2025 4PM EDT
Look, this was a screw-up in my opinion. The administration won't admit it.
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NPR News: 04-20-2025 4PM EDT
Kennedy also said Abrego Garcia should have received a hearing before his wrongful deportation to a Salvadorian prison. But when asked whether he believes Trump is in defiance of a court order to facilitate the man's return, Kennedy said, I don't believe that President Trump will defy a federal judge's order.
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NPR News: 04-20-2025 4PM EDT
And Kennedy called Trump's proposal of sending Americans to El Salvador not, quote, appropriate or moral. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
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NPR News: 01-11-2025 7PM EST
We are actually listening in real time to first responder radio traffic. And that's how we get such granular intelligence that is not normally found anywhere else on the Internet.
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NPR News: 11-09-2024 9PM EST
The leaders of China's parliament approved a bill that raises the ceiling for special bond issuance by local governments. They also approved further financing for debt swaps at the local level. In all, the measures will allow local governments to issue a combined 10 trillion yuan, or about $1.4 trillion, in fresh bonds in the coming years.
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NPR News: 11-09-2024 9PM EST
The money will be used to pay down off-balance sheet debt that's been crippling local governments around the country and hurting the national economy. The debt swaps are expected to save local governments around $84 billion in interest over the coming five years. It's the latest in a series of steps to shore up the economy in the face of mounting challenges,
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NPR News: 11-09-2024 9PM EST
and now increased uncertainty with the coming of a second Trump administration. John Rewich, NPR News, Shanghai.
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NPR News: 02-09-2025 6PM EST
The Baltic countries' decision to switch from Russian to European power had long been planned, but took on new urgency in the wake of the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Government officials said cutting the cord with Moscow was now a matter of national security. arguing any connection to Russian energy left their nations open to blackmail or sabotage.
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NPR News: 02-09-2025 6PM EST
The move comes amid a spate of mysterious attacks on regional infrastructure that have further raised tensions with Moscow. In a ceremony in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, European dignitaries hailed the successful power switch as ushering in a new era of freedom, with locals later given chunks of souvenir wire from the now-dead Russian transmission lines. Charles Mainz, NPR News.
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NPR News: 12-27-2024 8PM EST
I mean, just over Christmas days, launching waves of missiles and drones against Ukrainian infrastructure. This is not a man who anyone should take seriously when it comes to saying he's ready for a negotiated settlement. He has proven quite the contrary in almost every single possible way.
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NPR News: 01-11-2025 6PM EST
These winds, combined with dry air and dry vegetation, will keep the fire threat in Los Angeles County high.
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NPR News: 11-24-2024 8PM EST
In the past couple of weeks alone, a man who police said was upset about his divorce drove a car through a crowd, killing 35 people, and a college student stabbed eight people to death on campus when he failed to graduate. There have been other high-profile incidents in recent months, too, raising concerns that so-called revenge-against-society attacks are on the rise as the economy sputters.
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NPR News: 11-24-2024 8PM EST
Several government agencies from the top on down have met to discuss public safety in recent days, though reports in state media don't mention the attacks specifically. The Ministry of Justice called for detailed investigations of conflicts linked to things like inheritance, wage arrears, and marriages.
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NPR News: 11-24-2024 8PM EST
In the city of Wuxi, where the deadly campus attack happened, Communist Party leaders called for better school safety and probes into social risks and hidden dangers. John Rewich, NPR News, Shanghai.
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NPR News: 03-24-2025 5PM EDT
You showed me how a bizarre Catholic man who presents well but is deeply troubled on the inside... could navigate the entertainment industry.
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NPR News: 03-10-2025 5PM EDT
The system uses a brain-computer interface and artificial intelligence to bypass the damaged part of a patient's spine. That allows signals from the motor area of the brain to control the muscles in a person's hand. Keith Thomas, who is paralyzed from the chest down from a diving accident, says it also sends signals to his brain from sensors on his hand.
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NPR News: 03-10-2025 5PM EDT
They hooked me up to the machine and I'm like... The system also stimulates the spinal cord when signals are going in either direction. This strengthens the remaining natural connections between the brain and body, even when a person isn't connected to the computer interface. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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NPR News: 03-10-2025 3PM EDT
The system uses a brain-computer interface and artificial intelligence to bypass the damaged part of a patient's spine. That allows signals from the motor area of the brain to control the muscles in a person's hand. Keith Thomas, who is paralyzed from the chest down from a diving accident, says it also sends signals to his brain from sensors on his hand.
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NPR News: 03-10-2025 3PM EDT
They hook me up to the machine and I'm like... The system also stimulates the spinal cord when signals are going in either direction. This strengthens the remaining natural connections between the brain and body, even when a person isn't connected to the computer interface. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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NPR News: 04-07-2025 4PM EDT
I keep learning again and again that hope is the right response to the human condition. And I have to learn this over and over again because despair is an incredibly powerful force in my life.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 5PM EDT
The lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Louisville says radar for the storm showed strong tornadic and debris signatures. The Washington County Sheriff's Office says a young child was found after a search and rescue mission and taken to an area hospital. the child's condition has not been released.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 5PM EDT
Two weeks ago, deadly tornadoes swept through the southern part of the state, one of them killing 19 people in Laurel and Pulaski counties, about a two-hour drive from Washington County. In the past few years, Kentucky has experienced several natural disasters, including historic floods and the 2021 tornado that killed 57 people. For NPR News, I'm John McGarry.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 3PM EDT
Israel's military has issued a new displacement order. It encompasses all of northern Gaza and large parts of Gaza City. The order directs Palestinians to move into a sliver of territory along the Mediterranean coast. And Pierre Zayabatrawi reports it also includes a key hospital.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 3PM EDT
U.S. stocks are mixed this hour. The Dow is now up 56 points at 42,272. From Washington, this is NPR News. In Kentucky's Washington County, the Sheriff's Office has been advising residents to stay home if they can and allow emergency workers to deal with damage from a deadly storm. This morning, the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 3PM EDT
Governor Andy Beshear noted reports of at least one twister, a confirmed EF2. A seventh grader has been crowned the Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion. The B celebrating its 100th year, by the way. NPR's Amy Held reports the winner is a contestant who got another chance to compete for the championship.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 3PM EDT
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. This is Elon Musk's last day as a special government employee. Billionaire joined President Trump in the Oval Office a short time ago to take reporters' questions about his transition away from oversight of Doge, the entity of government-wide funding cuts and layoffs. But Trump's keeping the door open for Musk to continue a consulting role.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 3PM EDT
After a years-long battle for control over her own music, the superstar Taylor Swift has announced today she is finally in charge of the mass recordings of her first six albums. It's NPR News.
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NPR News: 05-30-2025 3PM EDT
Musk's tenure had been overshadowed by criticism, including conflict of interest concerns and concerns about the extent of his influence over President Trump's decisions. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says his staff must do additional vetting for any visa applicant applying to go to Harvard. That means not just students, but also faculty, guest speakers, and tourists.
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NPR News: 12-27-2024 6PM EST
The opposition party, which controls the parliament, says that Han refused to appoint three justices to fill vacancies on the constitutional court. And that's the court which will rule on President Yun's impeachment. Han says he didn't appoint them because that's up to the president to do.
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NPR News: 12-27-2024 6PM EST
But the opposition points out that he did veto bills to appoint special counsels to investigate President Yun and his wife. And he didn't oppose martial law. So basically, he's protecting Yun.
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NPR News: 04-25-2025 6PM EDT
And he's going to be punished for his staggering fraud, the abuses he put on our electoral process. for mocking our democratic institutions, and most importantly, for betraying and defrauding his supporters, his voters, his donors, federal agencies, state agencies.
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NPR News: 12-12-2024 8PM EST
Ancient specimens tend to be in rough shape. So Arev Sumer, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute... was fortunate to analyze the genomes of a set of well-preserved early human remains from Europe. She and her colleagues determined how many generations had passed since Neanderthals and the predecessors of these individuals interbred.
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NPR News: 12-12-2024 8PM EST
meaning that our ancestors ultimately fanned out across the world on the more recent side of what researchers have believed, adding a little more clarity to the complex story of human origins. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
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NPR News: 12-12-2024 8PM EST
We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.
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NPR News: 04-11-2025 5PM EDT
persists in taking substantive actions that infringe upon China's interests, China will, quote, respond resolutely and stand firm to the end. John Ruich, NPR News, Beijing.
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NPR News: 04-11-2025 5PM EDT
China announced that it's increasing tariffs on U.S. imports to 125 percent from 84 percent. The finance ministry says it'll take effect on Saturday. This step matches Trump's latest escalation as the trade war between the world's top two economies worsens. But the finance ministry signaled that Beijing was done with matching tariffs. In a statement on its website, it said U.S.
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NPR News: 04-11-2025 5PM EDT
goods exported to China are no longer market viable. and said if the U.S. continues to increase tariffs on Chinese imports, China will not respond. The Commerce Ministry issued a statement at the same time with the same message about further tariffs, but it warned that if the U.S.
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NPR News: 06-06-2025 1PM EDT
I can just say he was disappointed. I mean, he said that himself, and I was as well. But look, I believe in redemption. I hope we can resolve it and get everybody together again. That's really important for all of us.
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NPR News: 04-04-2025 6PM EDT
China's tariffs take effect on April 10th. The Ministry of Commerce is adding 16 U.S. entities to an export control list and 11 to a so-called unreliable entities list, effectively blacklisting them. It also said it's imposing export controls on a handful of rare earth minerals, making it harder for American companies to buy them.
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NPR News: 04-04-2025 6PM EDT
And China's customs department is suspending farm product import qualifications for several American companies. John Rewich, NPR News, Beijing.
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NPR News: 04-04-2025 6PM EDT
In coordinated statements, government ministries laid out the details of China's retaliation, which sharply escalates the trade war between the world's two biggest economies. The finance ministry will impose a 34 percent tariff on all U.S. imports. That's the same rate that the Trump administration imposed on China during Wednesday's so-called Liberation Day global tariff blitz.