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--:-- Windsor Johnston: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Stocks on Wall Street are trading sharply lower this morning, extending Thursday's massive sell-off.
--:-- Scott Horsley: NPR's Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 500 points in early trading.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Investors are rethinking some of their earlier excitement over the artificial intelligence boom.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Both the Dow and the S&P 500 index dropped nearly one and three quarters percent on Thursday, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell two and a third percent.
--:-- Scott Horsley: There's also less confidence that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again at its next meeting in December.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Walmart shares opened down after the retail giant announced that CEO Doug McMillan will retire early next year after more than a decade in the job.
--:-- Scott Horsley: McMillan will continue to serve as an advisor at Walmart, while the head of the company's U.S. business, John Ferner, takes over as CEO.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Walmart sets to report quarterly earnings next week.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Now that the government shutdown is over lawmakers are bracing for the political fallout.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are returning to their jobs after missing paychecks, and agencies are scrambling to restart everything from safety inspections to backlogged benefit claims.
--:-- Adam Gray: I'm California Congressman Adam Gray. He says the shutdown went on far too long.
--:-- Adam Gray: It became pretty clear during this government shutdown, the longest U.S. hit, that the president and the Republican majority were, you know, really comfortable putting the most vulnerable Americans at risk with the SNAP program and some of these other important funding programs.
--:-- Adam Gray: So it just felt immoral, frankly, to continue with it.
--:-- Adam Gray: Gray says both parties will have to answer for the uncertainty the shutdown caused, especially for families who couldn't afford to wait for lawmakers to resolve their differences.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: The Department of Justice is joining a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's new congressional maps, which favor Democrats.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: The lawsuit came after voters approved Proposition 50 to draw new lines ahead of next year's midterm elections
--:-- Guy Maserati: Guy Maserati from member station KQED reports.
--:-- Guy Maserati: The Trump administration is teaming up with the California Republican Party to ask a federal judge to block the new congressional map from taking effect.
--:-- Guy Maserati: They argue the Proposition 50 district lines were drawn to unfairly benefit Latino voters, violating the equal protection and voting rights of other Californians.
--:-- Guy Maserati: Governor Gavin Newsom frames Prop 50 as an effort to counter moves by Republicans in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and possibly others.
--:-- Guy Maserati: Democrats in Virginia have also countered, and other states are considering it.
--:-- Guy Maserati: In a statement, a spokesperson for Newsom says Republicans, quote, lost at the ballot box and soon they will also lose in court.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: For NPR News, I'm Guy Marzarotti in San Francisco.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: This is NPR News in Washington.
--:-- Cindy Lepkin: A new survey shows one in eight adults in the U.S. is currently taking the drug Ozempic, Wegovi, or similar weight loss medications.
--:-- Cindy Lepkin: NPR's Cindy Lepkin reports that's according to the nonpartisan research organization KFF.
--:-- Cindy Lepkin: The number of adults taking GLP-1 drugs, which include Ozempic, Wagovi, Zephound, and Manjaro, is going up.
--:-- Cindy Lepkin: It went from 6% a year and a half ago to 12% now.
--:-- Cindy Lepkin: People are taking the drugs for chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease, as well as for weight loss.
--:-- Ashley Kurtzinger: Here Ashley Kurtzinger, a pollster at KFF.
--:-- Ashley Kurtzinger: What was really striking to us is that there was no one demographic group that was kind of driving the increase.
--:-- Ashley Kurtzinger: It looked like there was a pretty steady increase in use across demographic groups.
--:-- Ashley Kurtzinger: Although most people taking these drugs say they have some insurance coverage for them, more than half say the drugs are difficult to afford.
--:-- Cindy Lepkin: KFF conducted the poll between October 27th and November 2nd.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Sydney Lupkin, NPR News.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Johns Hopkins University says it will no longer charge tuition for undergraduates from families earning up to $200,000 a year.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: The new program covers students from more than 85 percent of U.S. households and includes tuition and living expenses for families making up to $100,000.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: The move follows a $1.8 billion gift from alumnus Michael Bloomberg.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Stocks continue to trade sharply lower on Wall Street at this hour.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: The Dow was down 542 points, the Nasdaq down 113, the S&P 500 also trading lower, down 40 points.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: This is NPR.
