--:-- Ira Glass: This is Ira Glass of This American Life. Do you know our show? Okay, well, either way, I'm going to tell you about it. We make stories that hopefully pull you in at the beginning with funny moments and feelings and people in surprising situations, and then you just want to find out what is going to happen and cannot stop listening. That's right. I'm talking about stories that make you miss appointments. This American Life, wherever you get your podcasts.
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--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The 2020 election interference case against President Trump and allies in Georgia has a new prosecutor. Peter Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, is taking over from Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis. Willis was disqualified because of an appearance of impropriety stemming from an intimate relationship with a lead investigative prosecutor.
--:-- James Farrell: Schools in the Charlotte, North Carolina area are reassuring families after news that Border Patrol agents will soon be arriving in the city. I'm James Farrell of Member Station WFAE.
--:-- Liz Monterey: CMS board member Liz Monterey says she's concerned about children from immigrant families missing school. It's devastating. I'm a daughter of immigrants, and I'm very protective of our students and our kids. I'm worried about absenteeism and learning loss.
--:-- James Farrell: CMS says it follows federal and state laws that guarantee all children the right to public education regardless of immigration status. Latinos make up the second-largest group of CMS students.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: For NPR News, I'm James Farrell in Charlotte.
--:-- Rob Stein: A National Institutes of Health employee who has been criticized, or has criticized, rather, Trump administration health policies, has been put on leave. The NIH put Jenna Norton on indefinite paid administrative leave on her first day back to work from the government shutdown.
--:-- Administration Official: Instead of focusing on their actual job to promote gold standard science, radical leftist Jenna Norton chooses to constantly criticize this administration, even when she's supposed to be working.
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--:-- Skylar Rossi: The Trump administration has been discussing this week how to reduce prices on household items such as coffee. I'm Skylar Rossi of Harvest Public Media.
--:-- John Cates: Broadway Roasting Company in Kansas City, Missouri, roasts coffee from all over the world. I'm the co-owner, John Cates. We've been in business for 30 years, and we've never seen anything like this before, where you raise your price and it's for no reason other than to stay in business.
--:-- Skylar Rossi: The cost of a pound of ground coffee at the grocery store has climbed to a record $9.14 in September. America gets much of its coffee from Brazil, which currently has a 50 percent tariff.
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--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The CEO, credited with expanding Walmart's economic and technological footprint over the last decade, is leaving the company. Today, Walmart announced that Doug McMillan, who is 59, plans to retire early next year.
--:-- John Furner: As of February, I, John Furner, the 51-year-old head of Walmart's U.S. operations, will take the reins of the retail giant.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Both executives have been with Walmart their entire careers. McMillan may not be leaving the company anytime soon. He is expected to remain on the board.
--:-- Sydney Lepkin: A new survey shows one in eight adults in the U.S. is currently taking the drug Ozempic, Vigovi, or similar weight loss medications. I'm Sydney Lepkin, reporting for NPR News.
--:-- Ashley Kurtzinger: According to the nonpartisan research organization KFF, the number of adults taking GLP-1 drugs, which include Ozempic, Vigovi, Zefbound, and Mounjaro, is going up. It went from 6% a year and a half ago to 12% now.
--:-- Sydney Lepkin: People are taking the drugs for chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease, as well as for weight loss. Although most people taking these drugs say they have some insurance coverage for them, more than half say the drugs are difficult to afford.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: KFF conducted the poll between October 27th and November 2nd. For NPR News, I'm Sydney Lepkin.
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--:-- Lakshmi Singh: This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, the latest on Democrats in some blue states redistricting. A lot is still uncertain, but the picture moving into the midterms for Democrats isn't looking as bad as it once did. Plus, the government shutdown is over. What's Congress focused on next? That and more daily political coverage on the NPR Politics Podcast. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
