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How is President Trump proposing to lower health‑care premiums and change ACA subsidies?

Deborah Valentine 0:03
Health care costs. I'm Deborah Valentine, Fox News. President Trump wants insurance companies to drop their prices as part of a plan to prevent premium increases next year.
Jared Halpern 0:13
President Trump says he wants a meeting either next week or the week after with top health insurance companies to deliver a message.
Donald Trump 0:20
And they have to make less a lot less. And maybe we can have reasonable health care without without having to. Cut them out and let it all go arise.
Jared Halpern 0:31
The President is pitching that plan as an alternative to soon to expire Affordable Care Act subsidies. Congress has not extended those for more than twenty million Americans.

What details did Fox News give about the U.S. military’s Operation Hawkeye Strike against ISIS in Syria?

Jared Halpern 0:41
President Trump has argued funding should go directly to taxpayers and not insurance companies that he argues own democratic lawmakers. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News.
Deborah Valentine 0:53
The US military launches retaliatory strikes on ISIS targets in Syria. Fox's Jennifer Griffin has the latest.
Jennifer Griffin 1:00
U.S. Central Command launched a massive strike on dozens of ISIS targets in an operation called Operation Hawkeye Strike. Iowa is the Hawkeye State. The strikes took place at multiple locations across Syria. The targets include ISIS infrastructure and weapons storage sites.

How did the U.S. honor returning Iowa National Guard members after the Syria mission?

Jennifer Griffin 1:16
Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth tweeted, quote, This is not the beginning of a war. It is a declaration of vengeance. The United States of America under President Trump. Trump's leadership will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people. Sergeant William Nate Howard, twenty-nine of Marshalltown, and Sergeant Edgar Torres Tovar, twenty-five of Des Moines, and their civilian interpreter, Ayed Mansoor Sakat of Michigan, returned home in a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where they were met by the president.
Deborah Valentine 1:45
The US strikes on ISIS targets in Syria follow the killing of three members of the Iowa National Guard on December thirteenth in Syria. America's listening to Fox News.
Ainsley Earhart 2:00
This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52-episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.

What are the circumstances surrounding the illegal migrant charged with murder in Virginia?

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Deborah Valentine 2:16
Officials in Virginia say that an illegal migrant is in custody after allegedly killing a man. Critics say that it happened because of Democratic Party politics. Fox's Alexandria Hoff has the latest from Washington.
Alexandria Hoff 2:28
Twenty-three year old Marvin Morales Ortez, a Salvadorian national, has been charged with second degree murder for the shooting death of 40-year-old Marvin Ernesto Morales. Their relationship is unclear.
Alexandria Hoff 2:55
Fairfax County Police share that on Wednesday an order was issued after the suspects release to take him back into custody for mental health reasons. But quote, patrol officers responded to the address of record for Morales Ortez and did not locate him at his residence.

How did investigators link the New Hampshire autopsy to the Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s death?

Deborah Valentine 3:10
The undocumented migrant has been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County and is a suspected MS thirteen gang member. Investigators believe the man accused of two deadly attacks in New England died days before his body was discovered.
Kristen Goodwin 3:24
An autopsy report released Friday suggests Claudio Neves Valente shot and killed himself Tuesday, two days before officials found his body inside of a storage facility in New Hampshire. Police in Providence, Rhode Island identifying the forty-eight-year-old Portuguese national as the man they believe fatally shot two students and wounded nine others at Brown University last week. They believe he also shot and killed MIT professor Nuno Lorero in his Boston area home Monday. Investigators say the former PhD student at Brown had no known connection to the victims at the university, but that he and the MIT professor had attended the same school in Portugal in the nineteen nineties and both studied physics.
Kristen Goodwin 4:03
Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
Deborah Valentine 4:05
Wyoming Republican Senator Cynthia Loomis has announced she will not seek reelection in twenty twenty six. I'm Deborah Valentine. This is Fox.

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