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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Bayer. Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven. This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward. Innovations that save lives and feed the world. Science Delivers.com. |
| 0:18.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump signed an executive order today |
| 0:24.8 | classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports, Trump has called |
| 0:31.5 | the opioid crisis a public health emergency. President Trump said there's no doubt that adversaries |
| 0:36.7 | are trafficking fentanyl into |
| 0:38.2 | the U.S. in order to kill Americans. Speaking in the Oval Office, he said the drug kills more |
| 0:43.9 | Americans than any war. No bomb does what this is doing. 200 to 300,000 people die every year |
| 0:51.7 | that we know of. |
| 1:01.0 | So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. |
| 1:07.6 | According to the CDC, the U.S. has roughly 100,000 drug overdose deaths in a year. |
| 1:10.8 | Fentanyl has been blamed for tens of thousands of those. Trump also said his |
| 1:12.3 | administration is considering reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule 3 drug, |
| 1:18.7 | which he said would allow more research to be conducted. Franco, Ordojouz, NPR News, the White |
| 1:25.2 | House. A panel of federal judges in Los Angeles is hearing testimony this week in a case challenging |
| 1:30.8 | the new congressional maps approved by California voters in November. |
| 1:35.0 | Marisa Lagos of member station KQED reports the California Republican Party brought the lawsuit |
| 1:40.2 | joined by the U.S. Justice Department. |
| 1:42.1 | The lawsuit claims that Proposition 50 illegally drew new districts to favor Latino voters ahead of the U.S. Justice Department. The lawsuit claims that Proposition 50 illegally drew new |
| 1:45.7 | districts to favor Latino voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The ballot measure, which won |
| 1:51.9 | nearly 65 percent of the vote, changed California's congressional maps to give Democrats a leg up. |
| 1:58.1 | It was written after President Donald Trump asked Texas Republicans to |
| 2:01.6 | redraw their maps to benefit the GOP. The Supreme Court has held that states can draw maps that |
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