Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent actions did Homeland Security take regarding drug trafficking?
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is linking the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela to the Trump administration's counter-drug efforts. During a House Homeland Security Committee, Nome lauded the unusual move to take control of a merchant ship.
It was a successful operation directed by the president to ensure that we're pushing back on a regime that is systematically covering and flooding our country with deadly drugs and killing our next generation of Americans.
President Trump told reporters yesterday the tanker was seized for a very good reason. Venezuela's government has called the seizure an act of international piracy. Affordable Care Act tax credits expanded during the pandemic are on track to expire at the end of the month. NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports competing plans from both parties to address health care costs failed to advance in the Senate.
Senate Democrats proposed extending existing health care subsidies for three years. Four Republicans backed that bill, but it failed to get the 60 votes to advance. A Republican bill to give consumers up to $1,500 to use in health savings accounts also failed to advance.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed the GOP for blocking action weeks before people will face spikes in health care costs.
Now Republicans have all but guaranteed that tens of millions of people will see their premiums double or triple or more next year.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing the House will vote on some health care bill, but there is no agreement on the details. Swing District House Republicans are working to force a vote to extend the ACA subsidies for one or two years. Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol.
At least 20 rivers in western Washington state are flooding. In Skagit County, about an hour north of Seattle, 100,000 people have evacuated their homes. From KUOW, Joshua McNichols spoke to people at a shelter in the town of Mount Vernon.
Leslie Schlusner says her trailer park home is usually safe, but police told her she was in danger.
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Chapter 3: How are health care costs being addressed in the Senate?
The palm-like plants, called cycads, live in the tropics. They make pollen and seeds in long, pinecone-like structures, and the plant can heat these cones up. In the journal Science, researchers report that the nocturnal beetles that pollinate these plants... have antennae that are specially designed to sense heat.
And experiments with a fake cone that heated up showed that the beetles would home in on the source of the infrared radiation. The researchers say that long before colorful flowers emerged to attract later insects like bees and butterflies, plants were using an infrared glow to attract poor-sighted pollinators that were active at night. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.
Disney is investing a billion dollars in open AI to bring characters like Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker to the AI company's Sora video tool. Fans can generate and share videos featuring over 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters. Disney also sent Google a cease and desist letter for using Disney content without permission to train its AI models. This is NPR News.