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Chapter 1: What are the key points from President Trump's upcoming State of the Union address?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is preparing to deliver a high-stakes State of the Union address in a high-stakes year, months ahead of the midterm elections. The latest poll suggests a majority of Americans believe the country is worse off than a year ago. A key part is backlash over Trump's global tariffs policy, which was largely struck down by the
NPR's Mara Liason reports.
The State of the Unions are any president's biggest opportunities to speak to the public. And the big question for me is how much time Trump will spend in his State of the Union address excoriating the Supreme Court justices. Who will be sitting right in front of him? Will he repeat his insults, call them lapdogs and fools? Or how much time he will be talking about affordability?
That's something he has struggled to do consistently for months.
NPR's Mara Lyson reporting. A major nor'easter is underway. The National Weather Service says this morning's latest satellite imagery showed very heavy snowfall rates of 2 to 3 inches an hour. Wind gusts anywhere from 40 to 70 miles per hour. Conditions make for More treacherous whiteout conditions and power outages. More than 40 million people across the northeastern U.S.
are under blizzard warnings. Governor of New Jersey tells WABC-TV not all roads are passable. Extended the travel ban until noon today because we were seeing... Very dangerous situations on the road, tree branches down and coming down, utility lines down, as well as whiteout conditions.
Governor Cheryl, PowerOutage.us reports more than half a million people from Virginia to New York have no electricity. According to the aviation site FlightAware, more than 5,000 flights in and out of the U.S. were canceled today. An additional 2,000 were delayed. The United Kingdom's former ambassador to Washington has been arrested in an investigation related to the Epstein files.
Peter Mandelson is a veteran politician from Prime Minister Keir Starmer's ruling Labour Party. NPR's Lauren Frayer has this from London.
Footage shows Peter Mandelson being led out of his North London home by plainclothes officers. In a statement, police say he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. That's the same language they used to describe the arrest of King Charles' brother Andrew four days earlier. Both men are accused of sharing confidential government information with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Chapter 2: What impact is the major nor'easter having on the northeastern U.S.?
like insulin and GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Others are, at best, unproven because they haven't been studied in humans for their efficacy and safety. That concerns Paul Knopfler, a cell and molecular biologist at UC Davis School of Medicine.
Most of the research has just been done on, like, in rodents or, you know, in a plastic dish in the lab.
If you still want to try peptides, Knopfler says you should talk to your doctor first and don't just buy them off the internet. They could be fake or contain ingredients that are toxic to your body. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Bowden.
Quick look at Wall Street again. The Nasdaq is down 1.4 percent or 319 points. The S&P is now off 81, more than 1 percent. The Dow is down 812 points. It's NPR.