NPR News: 12-11-2025 2PM EST
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. The Senate failed to advance two competing partisan plans to address health care costs for people who purchase coverage on the Affordable Care Act markets. Both parties are under pressure to address health care costs before the expiration of pandemic-era federal subsidies meant to lower the cost of premiums on ACA plans. NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin explains what this means to beneficiaries.
What are the latest updates on health care costs and ACA subsidies?
24 million people were enrolled in these Obamacare plans this year, and almost all of them got these generous federal subsidies that came in during the pandemic to help keep their premium costs really affordable, like $10 a month for many people. Those enhanced subsidies expire in a matter of weeks. So many people are looking at way higher premium costs.
NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin. The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy Wednesday seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. President Trump announced the move. The Trump administration charges the tanker was being used... to transport oil to Iran despite related sanctions. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video on the ex-social media platform showing a helicopter landing on the deck of the tanker. Cold wind and rain are lashing tents and soaking displaced families across Gaza as sewage floods the streets. NPR's Aya Batraoui reports on a severe winter storm making landfall.
UN aid groups say they're rushing to distribute more winter clothes to families. They say 850,000 people are in areas at risk of flooding and warn children are at risk of hypothermia and falling ill. NPR's Anas Baba visited a displaced camp soaked in rain in Gaza City. Families here say they only have one set of winter clothes and no way to dry them. Nahla Al-Majdoub says she can't even find a tent. Nahla says the plastic tarp she and her eight kids shelter under collapsed from the rain on their heads last night. Israel says aid is flowing into Gaza, with trucks carrying winter blankets, tents and plastic sheeting. But the Norwegian Refugee Council says Israel is impeding the entry of supplies and has rejected 4,000 pallets of shelter materials since the ceasefire.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai, with reporting by Anas Baba in Gaza.
Federal Judge Paula Zinnis has granted Kilmar Abrego-Garcia's request to be released from ICE custody. The native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland has become a symbol of the Trump administration's immigration policies after he was mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador in March, contrary to a judge's order. The government later returned him to the U.S., but immediately charged him with human smuggling in Tennessee. Zinnes said the government had no final removal order to deport Abrego Garcia and also tried to deport him to various countries in Africa, even as he was willing to leave the U.S. and go to Costa Rica. The Dow's up 621. This is NPR. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is under pressure from President Trump to hold elections.
Zelensky's term expired last year, but today he told a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing Group of Nations it would be impossible to hold elections during wartime. There must be a ceasefire, he says. Time magazine has named its annual person of the year or more likely people of the year. The honor this time is going to the, quote, architects of AI. NPR's Andrew Limbaugh has details.
It's the big name CEOs who are on the cover. You're Sam Altman's, Jensen Wong's and Lisa Su's of the world. But the accompanying article goes into how these tech giants worked with investors and investors. heads of state, including the Trump administration, to turn AI into the, quote, most consequential tool in great power competition since the advent of nuclear weapons. The past year saw an influx of people turning to AI for everything, from help with homework to business research to companionship. And as if to highlight the point, Time discloses in its article that the magazine has a licensing agreement that allows OpenAI access to Time's archives.
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