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How is President Trump proposing to lower health‑insurance premiums?

Deborah Valentine 0:03
Affordable health care. 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 0:32
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 did the U.S. military’s Operation Hawkeye Strike target 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.

Why did the President meet the Iowa National Guard members returning from Syria?

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
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 1:59
This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52-episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.

What are the details of the illegal migrant murder case 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. Fox's Alexandria Hoff has the latest from Washington.
Alexandria Hoff 2:25
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 2:50
safely into ICE custody. Fairfax County Police share that on Wednesday an order was issued after the suspect's 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 Brown University shooter to the MIT professor murder?

Alexandria Hoff 3:06
That order then expired.
Deborah Valentine 3:07
The undocumented migrant has been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County and is a suspected MS thirteen gang member. Investigators is still searching for the motive behind the Brown University mass shooting.
Chanley Painter 3:21
The FBI and ATF say ballistic and DNA evidence all tie the now dead suspect to the mass shooting at Brown University and to the murder of an MIT professor. The official autopsies suggest the suspect, Claudio Nevez Valente, fatally shot himself Tuesday, two days before officials found his body inside of a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, Thursday night. homeless man, simply known as John in the affidavit, who apparently was living in the basement of the Brown Engineering Building for providing a pivotal tip that led the police to the suspect.
Deborah Valentine 3:57
Fox's Chanley Painter reporting. Officials believe the suspect studied with the MIT professor and later attended Brown the Trump administration suspending the visa lottery program through which the suspect was allowed to enter the United States. I'm Deborah Valentine. This is Fox.

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