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What recent healthcare proposals were rejected by the Senate?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. The Senate has rejected separate proposals from Republicans and Democrats to address federal health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. The GOP plan would have eliminated the subsidies in favor of health savings accounts funded for two more years. The Democrats' proposal would have extended the subsidies. Here's Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Democrats' so-called plan... is a three-year extension of the status quo. No reforms, no revisions, no rethinking of the way that Obamacare works. Without action by Congress, those covered under the Affordable Care Act will see sharply higher premiums and costs beginning in January. Indiana's state Senate has voted against redrawing the state's congressional map.
The effort was pushed by President Trump to help Republicans in next year's congressional midterm elections. NPR's Tamara Keith has more.
Trump has said he is worried about what would happen if Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in next year's midterms. So he's been trying to get GOP-run states to tilt the playing field in his party's favor. Trump had intensely lobbied Indiana lawmakers. promising to campaign against them if they didn't support the gerrymandered maps. Groups backing Trump rallied in Indianapolis, but it didn't work, and now Trump is distancing himself.
I wasn't working on it very hard. It would have been nice. I think we would have picked up two seats if we did that.
And then Trump repeated his threats to primary state lawmakers who voted against the plan. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
States including Texas and Missouri changed their congressional maps in hopes of helping the GOP next year. Democratic lawmakers in California responded to Texas by redrawing that state's map in an effort to help Democrats in the congressional midterms. The redistricting was approved by California voters in November. The 22-year-old man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah in September has made his first in-person court appearance. Martha Harris with member station KUER reports from Provo.
Tyler Robinson's family sat in the front row of the gallery. His mother wiped away tears as he was brought in court in handcuffs. The hearing dealt with the ongoing fight about public and media access in this high-profile case. Attorneys for news organizations are asking to be able to argue against any future restrictions to access. Defense attorney Stacey Visser said she had concerns about giving the media that status.
We don't want the chaos that is out in the media. in this courtroom.
The defense also wants to ban cameras entirely in the courtroom. For NPR News, I'm Martha Harris in Provo, Utah.
This is NPR News from Washington. Flood watches and warnings remain in effect in western Washington state after days of heavy rains from an atmospheric river. Washington is under a state of emergency. Tens of thousands of people are under evacuation orders. Governor Bob Ferguson describes the flooding as historic. Roads and bridges have been covered by water. Some residents were left stranded on rooftops. Rivers are at record levels. A landslide blocked a section of Interstate 90 east of Seattle. A drug being developed by Eli Lilly could help patients lose more weight than similar drugs already on the market. As NPR's Sydney Lupkin reports, the drug is still in the experimental stages.
Eli Lilly is the company behind blockbuster obesity drug Zepbound.
How is Trump influencing congressional redistricting in Indiana?
Now it's working on a next-generation medicine. Eli Lilly's experimental new drug is called retitrutide. It's still being studied and hasn't yet been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for approval, but new study results show that patients taking the highest dose of the drug lost an average of 72 pounds over 68 weeks, according to the company. Patients in the trial had knee arthritis, and researchers found that the drug also markedly reduced patients' knee pain. Side effects for retitrutide included nausea, constipation, and vomiting.
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