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Inflation is down, but consumers still struggle. And, Medicare to lower drug prices

8:05am August 15, 2024

Inflation in the U.S. dropped to its lowest level in over three years last month. Here's why consumers are still struggling. And, Medicare to reveal lower drug prices after months of negotiations.

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HHS team negotiated with drug companies to save on Medicare drug prices

7:32am August 15, 2024

by Steve Inskeep

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra about the results of negotiations to lower Medicare prices for 10 blockbuster drugs.

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Talks to negotiate a cease-fire deal in Gaza are set to resume Thursday

6:54am August 15, 2024

by Steve Inskeep

Can another round of U.S.-brokered cease-fire talks lead to an end to the war in Gaza? That's where tens of thousands of people have been killed and families have been repeatedly displaced.

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FCC adopts an alert system for missing Indigenous people

5:02am August 15, 2024

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

Medicare negotiated drug prices for the first time. Here’s what it got

5:00am August 15, 2024

The White House announced new Medicare drug prices for 10 medicines popular with beneficiaries. It's the first time the federal program has negotiated lower prices with the pharmaceutical industry.

With a new orchestral album, Louis Cole pulls magic out of the air

5:00am August 15, 2024

Louis Cole is a prolific musician known primarily as a drummer, but whose music over the past decade has fallen in the nexus of jazz, funk and rock. Now he's in a whole new space.

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Trump gutted federal employee unions. They believe he'd do it again

5:00am August 15, 2024

Federal employee unions are fervently supporting Kamala Harris for president, in part because they like her pro-labor policies, but just as much because they fear a second Trump term.

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Biden reignites Cancer Moonshot to mobilize a national initiative to end cancer

4:42am August 15, 2024

by Leila Fadel

President Biden traveled to New Orleans this week to announce a $150 million investment in technologies to improve cancer surgeries. We check in on the progress of Cancer Moonshot.

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The Democratic Party has new energy but it's not trickling down to a race in Montana

4:40am August 15, 2024

by Kirk Siegler

One of Republicans' best chances to pick up a U.S. Senate seat is in Montana, where the change at the top of the Democratic ticket is challenging for incumbent Jon Tester.

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Morning news brief

4:15am August 15, 2024

by Leila Fadel

Inflation falls to its lowest level in more than three years. A new round of talks to end the war in Gaza is set to begin in Doha. There’s some violence on the streets in the Bangladeshi capital.

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