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| 0:00.0 | After more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas, a ceasefire deal has been announced in Gaza. |
| 0:06.8 | State of the world brings you the latest news as the deal is tested and hostages are released. |
| 0:12.1 | Our reporters in the Middle East will provide details, context, and reaction from the region and around the world. |
| 0:18.3 | Listen to the State of the World podcast from NPR. |
| 0:23.4 | Live from NPR news, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Supreme Court's upholding a federal law to ban |
| 0:29.6 | TikTok as of Sunday if the short form video sharing app used by 170 million people in the U.S. |
| 0:36.8 | alone fails to divest itself of Chinese ownership. the U.S. alone, fails to divest itself of Chinese ownership. |
| 0:40.3 | The U.S. says it is concerned the Chinese government could exploit TikTok to gain sensitive information from American users. |
| 0:48.5 | Hours before the court decision, President-elect Donald Trump, said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping talked by phone about TikTok, |
| 0:55.9 | as well as illegal fentanyl trafficking and the ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute. |
| 1:01.3 | The Biden administration has announced more medications that will be targeted for lower prices under Medicare. |
| 1:07.9 | NPR Sidney Lepkin reports negotiating drug prices in Medicare is a new power that was |
| 1:13.1 | created by Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. The federal government and the pharmaceuticals industry |
| 1:18.1 | are about to go head to head once again. In its last full weekday in office, the Biden administration |
| 1:23.7 | has named the next 15 drugs up for price negotiation in Medicare. |
| 1:28.2 | Ozempic is on the list. The type 2 diabetes blockbuster drug is joined by its obesity drug |
| 1:33.2 | cousin, Wagovi, as well as drugs for various cancers, asthma, psoriasis, and bipolar disorder. |
| 1:39.8 | The government can't pick just any drugs in Medicare. There are certain rules laid out in the |
| 1:43.5 | Inflation Reduction Act that say which drugs are eligible. The negotiations will take place in the |
| 1:48.5 | coming months. Sydney Lefkin and PR News. |
| 1:52.0 | European Union regulators are expanding their probe into the workings of X, the social media |
| 1:57.1 | platform owned by Elon Musk. From Brussels. Terry Schultz reports the new questions |
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