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What protests erupted during President Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sang. President Trump is on an unprecedented second state visit to the United Kingdom. King Charles employs here a diplomacy in the pursuit of stronger ties between Britain and the US. complete with a carriage procession and guard of honor in welcoming Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to Windsor Castle today. As the royal family rolled out the red carpet for the US leader, anti-Trump protesters rolled out a symbol of the Epstein scandal that has dogged the president. Overnight an image of Trump with a late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was projected onto the outer walls of Windsor Castle. Four people have been arrested, and Pierre's Lauren Freyer has more details.
This is Windsor Castle, home of the Video of Trump and Epstein lit up the castle walls after dark.
But it's not just Trump.
Why did the former CDC director resign and allege political interference in agency science?
King Charles's brother, Prince Andrew, was also friends with Epstein. So was the UK ambassador to Washington, who last week was fired for Epstein ties. Other protesters, climate activists, burst into a Republican dinner here in Windsor yelling. If you drill, baby drill, how many will you kill? Polls show more than 60% of Britons have an unfavorable view of Trump. Protesters are marching in Windsor and in London, where balloon copies of a giant baby Trump blimp that was hoisted during a previous presidential visit are bobbing above the crowd. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Windsor, England.
Members of the Senate are hearing this hour from the ousted director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Menares. Menaras says she was forced out of her job only weeks after she started because of growing political interference in the agency's science based work, including vaccine recommendations.
What congressional hearing is planned to examine online radicalization after Charlie Kirk’s death?
I resigned because CDC leaders were reduced to rubber stamps, supporting policies not based in science and putting American lives at risk. Secretary Kennedy censored CDC science, politicized its processes, and stripped leaders of independence. I could not and good conscience remain under those conditions.
Kennedy's allies have accused Menares of spreading false information and undermining President Trump's agenda. In the wake of political violence acclaimed conservative activist Charlie Kirk's life last week, a House committee is now scheduling to the A hearing next month on what it describes as the radicalization of online forum users The CEOs being asked to testify include the head of Discord. It's the form Utah authorities say Kirk's alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, used the day of Kirk's assassination. Robinson made a brief court appearance yesterday and he is now facing aggravated murder, firearms, and obstruction charges.
How is the Federal Reserve expected to change interest rates and why does President Trump want a larger cut?
From Washington, this is NPR News. The Federal Reserve's policymakers will wrap up their meeting today widely expected to have lowered benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to a range of four percent to four and a quarter percent, a reduction would mark the first rate cut in nine months. President Trump has been pushing the Fed to significantly lower the rate as he attempts to put his own stamp on the central bank, which is set up to be independent. White House economist Steven Myron is the newest member of the Fed's governing board. Meanwhile, President Trump's trying to get Fed Governor Lisa Cook fired, and she is fighting that in court. Eli Lilly is working on a new obesity drug, but instead of an injection, it is a pill.
New data offer a glimpse into how well it works, NPR Sydney Lepkin with details.
Patients taking the highest dose of Eli Lilly's experimental obesity pill lost an average of eleven point two percent of their body weight.
How effective is Eli Lilly’s new oral obesity medication according to recent trial results?
That's according to a new study of more than three thousand patients with obesity taking orphoglypron for almost a year and a half. It was published in the New England Journal of Medicine Tuesday. Funded by Eli Lilly, the study also suggested the drug had similar adverse events to other obesity drugs on the market. Eli Lilly announced results of a related study in August.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What protests erupted during President Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom?
0:01–0:58
2
Why did the former CDC director resign and allege political interference in agency science?
0:58–1:53
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What congressional hearing is planned to examine online radicalization after Charlie Kirk’s death?
1:53–2:55
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How is the Federal Reserve expected to change interest rates and why does President Trump want a larger cut?
2:55–3:55
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How effective is Eli Lilly’s new oral obesity medication according to recent trial results?
3:55–4:38