Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump plans to speak to public worries about high prices and affordability when he holds a campaign-style rally in a swing congressional district of Pennsylvania today. One big concern among voters surrounds Affordable Care Act subsidies due to expire in a few weeks.
The health policy news source KFF reports millions of people who have coverage through the ACA marketplace, stand to see their out-of-pocket premium payments more than double next year. President Trump was asked about health care in an interview with Politico's Dasha Burns.
I'd like to get better health care. I'd like to have people buy their own health care, get much better health care. And what I want to do, for example, I want to give the money to the people, not to the insurance companies.
So right now people are buying their holiday presents. They're planning for... Look, don't be dramatic. No, no.
Don't be dramatic. They're putting their budgets for next year, Mr. President.
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Chapter 2: What are President Trump's plans regarding health care and affordability?
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Trump argues ACA or Obamacare was set up to make insurance companies rich. When asked if he plans to tell Congress to extend the subsidies while he works out an alternative, Trump said he would have to see. The ACLU and other rights groups are suing for the immediate release of the still-secret Justice Department memo justifying the administration's lethal strikes against suspected drug boats.
NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.
The ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed their lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan. They want the administration to make public the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel's memo and other documents related to the Trump administration's lethal targeting of suspected drug boats.
The lawsuit says disclosing these records is, quote, critically important to ensuring informed public debate about the U.S. military's unprecedented strikes, which the suit says are a clear violation of domestic and international law. The administration says the strikes are legal and aim to combat the illicit drug trade. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
Google is the target of a second European Union investigation in less than a month. Officials are looking at how the tech giant uses other people's online content to train its artificial intelligence models. Terry Schultz has more from Brussels.
The European Commission says it suspects Google of creating its AI-generated summaries with content generated by others, such as publishers or YouTube users, who are not compensated nor offered the option to refuse. European Commission spokesperson Ariana Podesta says this could mean Google is taking unfair advantage of its dominant position as a search engine.
By imposing unfair terms to the publishers of this content or by granting itself some privileged access to the information. Google has already rejected the complaint by independent publishers, which led to the investigation.
Last month, the commission opened an antitrust probe into indications Google is unfairly demoting news and publishing websites in search results when they include content from commercial partners. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels. This is NPR.
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