Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent developments occurred in Venezuela's political landscape?
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has just left the White House where she met with President Trump. Trump has resisted supporting Machado to lead Venezuela in place of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Instead, he has backed Maduro's deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, who was expected to deliver her first State of the Union speech to her country today.
On this final day of open enrollment in the U.S., Trump announced an outline for new health care legislation. NPR's Selena Simmons-Stefan reports the plan would not immediately help people facing sky-high premiums on healthcare.gov.
What Trump is calling the Great Health Care Plan does not have any new or large-scale policy ideas in it. It expresses support for price transparency and health savings accounts and drug pricing that considers the cost of medicines in other countries, all longstanding Republican health policy ideas.
In a press call, senior White House officials explained there is no current bill that accomplishes these goals. Rather, the administration is calling on Congress to create a new bill. What this plan would not do is extend the enhanced premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans. Millions of people's premium costs are double what they were last year.
A bipartisan group of senators is working on a deal to increase subsidies to 2025 levels. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
Well, the U.S. says a second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza is beginning. The White House says it includes Gaza's demilitarization and a new Palestinian administration to take over from Hamas. More from NPR's Anas Baba in Gaza City.
On Gaza's streets, there is a feeling that the war hasn't actually ended and that the ceasefire is merely on paper. More than 450 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the past three months since President Trump declared the war over.
Abu Abdulrahman, like many Palestinians in Gaza today, is living in a makeshift tent with his wife and kids after their home was destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. He says their hopes for the first phase of the deal haven't materialized yet.
We hope that the aid will be given.
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Chapter 3: How is the U.S. administration addressing healthcare legislation?
in the Arctic. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 329 points, more than half a percent, at 49,478. From Washington, this is NPR News. The Senate's delayed today's vote on a cryptocurrency bill. NPR's Maria Aspin reports a delay comes after the CEO of a major crypto company publicly criticized the legislation.
Traditional banks have long dominated finance, while younger crypto companies also have powerful supporters in Washington, including President Trump. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who runs the largest U.S. crypto exchange, posted on X that his company, quote, can't support the bill as written.
Then Republican Senator Tim Scott, who chairs the banking committee, announced that the vote was postponed as bipartisan negotiations continue. Maria Aspen, NPR News.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people in an alleged point-shaving scheme in college basketball. The indictment says conspirators bribed players from 17 Division I teams to change the outcomes of dozens of games.
Here's NPR's Becky Sullivan. The indictment names 20 college basketball players and six people who allegedly conspired to fix the games. Prosecutors say the scheme involved teams that were favored to lose a game or the first half of a game.
Defendants are accused of bribing players with $10,000 to $30,000 apiece to deliberately underperform so that their team would lose by more than the spread set by betting markets. Then they'd bet on the team to lose and reap the winnings. In all, prosecutors say the conspirators attempted to fix at least 29 NCAA games involving teams like Georgetown, Butler, and St. John's.
In a statement, NCAA President Charlie Baker said investigations are complete or ongoing of the teams involved, along with 40 players. Eleven players so far have been banned from competition. That's Becky Sullivan reporting. It's NPR.
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