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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Texas House Republicans have passed a plan to redraw congressional
maps in their favor. The state House reconvened today after
protests from Democrats that saw them leave this state to
break quorum and delay a vote. The bill now heads
to the GOP controlled state Senate, where it's sure to pass.
Severe weather is coming to North Carolina's outer banks as

(00:30):
Hurricane Aaron moves through the Atlantic Ocean. Governor Josh Stein
said things could get bad.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
We are anticipating coastal flooding from massive waves, tropical storm
force winds, and title and storm surge for much of
the state shoreline.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
A state of emergency has been declared as the storm's
outer bands are expected to bring storm surge flooding. Vice
President JD. Vance is giving details on the visit Ukrainian
President Selenski took to the White House this week. Vance
said on Fox News Wednesday that he started things off
with an icebreaker, telling Zelensky as long as he behaved,

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Vance would not say anything. He continued by saying Ukrainians
want security guarantees. While the Russians want a certain amount
of territory. Washington State is joining sixteen other states and
the District of Columbia in asking the Food and Drug
Administration to drop restrictions on the abortion drug myth of prestone.

(01:28):
Brad Ford reports.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
The restrictions include providers being required to be a registered
prescriber of the drug, pharmacies need special certification to dispense it,
and patients have to sign a form to prove that
they are voluntarily terminating a pregnancy. The FDA approved myth
of pristone in two thousand and has been used by
more than seven and a half million women in the US.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
A federal appeals court is allowing the Trump administration to
eliminate deportation protections for over sixty thousand migrants. Last month,
a lower court blocked the administration from nying temporary protected
status for people from Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua. I'm Brian Shook.
President Trump's approval rating is holding steady at its lowest

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level of his second term. Chris Keragio has the details.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
According to a new Reuters IPSIS survey, forty percent of
respondents back Trump's handling of his job which marks a
seven point drop from the start of his second term.
Findings are in line with other polling as an average
from Decision Desk HQ shows Trump with a forty six
point five percent approval rating compared to the fifty six
percent approval rating he scored at the start of his

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new term. President Trump's decline in approval comes as he
has faced multiple controversies, including Jeffrey Epstein's case files, use
of federal force in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, and
the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
The prices of some popular weight loss drugs are being
slashed for cash paying patients. Sarah Lee Kessler has the story.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is offering ozempk and Mogovi for
half price four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month
for those who pay for the drugs out of pocket.
Eli Lilly, the maker of Munjaro and zep Found, has
been doing the same for months. The cash payoffer will
expand access to eligible type two diabetes patients who don't

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have insurance coverage for the weekly injections. The move comes
as drug makers face pressure from the Trump Administration to
lower drug costs in the US. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
An Oregon man is accused of orchestrating several massive cyber
attacks since twenty twenty one. Federal authorities announced charges Tuesday
against twenty two year old Ethan Foltz. They accuse him
of developing a botnet, a network of devices used to
conduct cyber attacks. Folts allegedly loan this network to customers

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who used it to carry out cyber attacks on tech companies,
a social media platform, and even a US government network.
I'm Brian Shook.