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News Wrap: 9 Drug Companies Cut Drug Prices for Medicaid

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🔥 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: news wrap 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: In our news cover on Friday, nine pharmaceutical companies agreed to lower prices on many of the drugs they sell to Medicaid and sell directly to consumers through the site TrumpRx, Russian President Putin says he remains committed to achieving goals in Ukraine if Kiev does not agree to their demands for peace, and Australia announces a gun buyback plan after the Bondi Beach mass shooting. Jeff Bennett: And in other headlines of the day: Nine drug companies agreed…

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The Justice Department began releasing the Epstein files, with many of them heavily redacted

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Jeff Bennett: Welcome to the News Hour.Late this afternoon, the Department of Justice began releasing thousands of pages of files and communications related to the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The new documents include photos, call logs, court files and more, many of which have been heavily redacted.Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, joins us now.So, Liz, you and our team have been reading these documents. What stands out so far? Liz Landers: Well, there are thousands of documents released today. That's…

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Erika Kirk supports J.D. Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid at the Turning Point USA conference

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🚀 Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: erika kirk,JD Vance,Turning Point USA 📌 Main takeaway: PHOENIX (AP) — Erica Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and the organization's new leader, endorsed a potential presidential bid by Vice President J.D. Vance on opening night of the young conservative group's annual conference. He watches: Vance joins University of Mississippi's Erica Kirk for the Turning Point USA event After telling the cheering crowd that Tipping Point would help keep Congress in Republican hands next year, she said, "We're going to get my husband's friend…

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Rep. Stefanik has ended her campaign for Governor of New York and will not seek re-election to the House of Representatives

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Elise Stefanik,New York,Vote 2026 ✅ Main takeaway: ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she will suspend her campaign for New York governor and not seek re-election to Congress, abruptly withdrawing from what was expected to be a bruising Republican primary and ending a promising term in the House. Stefanik, a Republican ally of President Donald Trump, said in a statement that she was confident about her chances in the primary against Bruce Blackman, a Republican county official in the New York City suburbs.…

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A federal judge is considering Trump’s claim of immunity from civil suits over the Capitol attack

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✨ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Capitol insurrection,Donald Trump news,January 6,presidential immunity 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge Friday to issue a ruling granting Trump presidential immunity from civil claims that he incited the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results. US District Judge Amit Mehta did not rule from the bench after hearing arguments from Trump's lawyers and lawyers for Democratic members of Congress who filed a lawsuit against the Republican president…

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The White House website is mysteriously gushing over a personal finance YouTube creator

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,personal finance,youtube ✅ Main takeaway: The White House says it's looking into how a creator's YouTube live stream could take over the White House's website. The comment from participating in the live broadcast about the investment appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on the website Whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House typically broadcasts a live video of the president speaking. It is unclear whether the White House website was hacked or whether the video was accidentally linked by someone in the government. Matt Farley,…

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WATCH LIVE: Rubio holds year-end press conference on Venezuela, Ukraine war and Gaza

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🔥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,marco rubio,State Department,Ukraine war 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to take questions from reporters Friday in the State Department briefing room, where key topics are expected to surround peace efforts between Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, and the Trump administration's increasing military pressure on Venezuela. Watch Rubio's news conference live in the video player above. Rubio's year-end appearance comes amid key meetings on Gaza, Russia and Ukraine in Miami on Friday and Saturday after a turbulent year in US…

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Trump suspends the green card lottery program that allows suspects in the shootings at Brown University and MIT to enter the United States

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: brown university,green card,immigration,Rhode Island ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: US President Donald Trump on Thursday suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social media platform X that, at Trump's direction, she is ordering USCIS to pause the program. He watches: The suspect in the shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT…

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‘Lolita’, passports and the most famous figures in Epstein’s latest photo release

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: bill gates,David Brooks,jeffrey epstein,noam chomsky,Sergey Brin,Steve Bannon,woody allen 💡 Key idea: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released another batch of photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Thursday, the eve of a deadline set by the Justice Department to release all of its files related to his case. About 70 photos come from Epstein's computer and email accounts, shedding more light on his lifestyle and social circles. The photos, among 95,000 handed over by Epstein's estate last week, were presented to the committee without context. In…

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Trump Media merges with nuclear fusion company that wants to power artificial intelligence

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💥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,fusion,Trump Media,Truth Social 💡 Key idea: Trump Media & Technology will merge with a merging energy company in an all-stock deal that the companies said Thursday would be worth more than $6 billion. Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman who resigned in 2021 to become CEO of Trump Media, will be co-CEO of the new company with TAE Technologies CEO Michelle Binderbauer. Read more: What to know about Truth Social, Trump's social media platform The combined company says it plans to find a site and begin…

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