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--:-- Shea Stevens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Trump administration has announced deals with pharmaceutical giants Norvo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to lower the costs for popular anti-obesity drugs.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: NPR's Sydney Lupkin has more.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: Norvo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's blockbuster obesity and type 2 diabetes drugs are the centerpiece of agreements announced by the White House.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: The drugs, Ozempic, Wegovi, Zepound, and Manjaro, will be available to the government at lower prices and to Medicare beneficiaries for a $50 copay.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: The deals expand Medicare and Medicaid access for some but not all patients with obesity, and the arrangements would expand discounts available to patients buying the drugs through trumprx.gov, a website that is expected to launch before the end of the year.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: The companies also promise that if experimental obesity pills they are developing win FDA approval, they will cost per month for their starting doses.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Sydney Lupkin NPR News.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Supreme Court has given President Trump the okay to require passport applicants to list their sex at birth without any accommodation for transgender individuals.
--:-- Nina Totenberg: As NPR's Nina Totenberg reports, the decision overturns a lower court ruling that blocked implementation of the passport plan.
--:-- Nina Totenberg: In an unsigned opinion, the six-member conservative court majority was unusually blunt, declaring that the Trump administration was suffering a form of irreparable injury by not being allowed to carry out a policy with foreign affairs implications.
--:-- Nina Totenberg: In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, speaking for the court's three liberals, accused the majority of once again paving the way for immediate infliction of injury without adequate or really any justification.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The Congressional Budget Office says it's been hit by a cyber attack, partially disclosing government data to foreign actors.
--:-- Shea Stevens: A spokesperson for the agency says steps have been taken to contain the situation, including adding new security controls.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Israel has carried out new airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least one person despite a U broker ceasefire reached last year.
--:-- Shouad Rizkallah: At around noon local time Israeli warplanes struck a village in southern Lebanon.
--:-- Shouad Rizkallah: The Israeli military said it was targeting what it called quote saboteurs in Hezbollah construction unit.
--:-- Shouad Rizkallah: Later, the Israeli military issued evacuation warnings to residents in five other villages in the south, before striking what it said was Hezbollah's, quote, military infrastructure.
--:-- Shouad Rizkallah: Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese state, which has vowed to disarm the militant group, have been responding to the year-long Israeli attacks, which have killed upward of 100 civilians, according to the UN.
--:-- Shouad Rizkallah: In a public letter to the Lebanese government, Hezbollah said it stands beside the army to defend Lebanese sovereignty.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Shouad Rizkallah, NPR News.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: For the second time in less than three months, Ukrainian drones have attacked a major oil refinery in southwest Russia, according to Ukraine's army's general staff.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The facility is the largest producer of fuel and lubricants in Russia's southern federal district and accounts for about 5 percent of the country's total refining capacity.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Officials in Moscow have not confirmed the report, although a local governor says drones started a fire at an unspecified facility in the same region.
--:-- Shea Stevens: 2025 is on track to be the second or third hottest year on record.
--:-- Alejandra Burunda: The finding from the World Meteorological Organization annual climate review comes as international climate negotiations begin in Brazil.
--:-- Alejandra Burunda: WMO says the planet is about 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter than it was during the pre-industrial era.
--:-- Alejandra Burunda: And all that planetary heating means it's almost more surprising when a year doesn't come with the tagline, the hottest year ever.
--:-- Alejandra Burunda: So it doesn't look like 2025 will end up with that superlative. That's probably due to natural cycles and Earth's weather systems that dragged global temperatures down slightly this year.
--:-- Alejandra Burunda: But overall, the pattern of global warming is clear.
--:-- Alejandra Burunda: That's according to WMO Deputy Secretary General Co-Barrett.
--:-- Alejandra Burunda: Each fraction of a degree matters for communities facing floods, droughts, and heat extremes.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The report comes as the United Nations Annual Climate Summit starts next week.
--:-- Shea Stevens: No high-level officials from the United States will attend the meeting.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Alejandra Burunda, NPR News.
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