Supreme Court Medicaid Ruling, Diddy Trial Nears Verdict, Apple’s EU Overhaul, and BBQ Prices Rise
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is an L.A. Times Studios podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Hi, I'm Angelica Cornado at L.A. Times Studios. Here are some of today's headlines from the Los Angeles Times. |
| 0:17.8 | Prosecutors have rested their case in Sean Diddy Combs' federal trial after six weeks of graphic testimony from 34 witnesses. |
| 0:25.6 | Richard Winton reports that Combs' legal team did not call on a single witness, including the hip-hop mogul himself, who's facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges. |
| 0:35.6 | Former sex crimes prosecutor Dmitri Gorin says the defense team's decision is normal |
| 0:41.3 | because the burden of proof rests on the prosecutors. |
| 0:44.3 | He says defendants may believe that there is, quote, reasonable doubt based on the prosecutor's case. |
| 0:50.3 | Prosecutors say Combs allegedly ran a criminal enterprise that abused women, engaged in sex trafficking, and obstructed justice, |
| 0:58.0 | adding that he was a powerful man whose inner circle and business made him dangerous. After closing arguments, the jury will retire for deliberation, where they must reach a verdict. |
| 1:09.5 | The Supreme Court has just ruled that states can block women that are on Medicaid |
| 1:14.0 | from using Planned Parenthood clinics for their health care. |
| 1:17.7 | Reporter David G. Savage writes the court's majority voted 6'3 to overturn a longstanding |
| 1:23.6 | rule that allowed Medicaid patients to choose any health care provider. |
| 1:28.5 | Justice Neil Gorsuch said the Medicaid Act does not guarantee patients the right to pick their provider. |
| 1:34.3 | Conservative states have tried to defund Planned Parenthood for providing women with abortions, |
| 1:39.0 | but its clinics provide people with other services like cancer screenings, pregnancy testing, and birth control prescriptions. |
| 1:46.0 | Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says the decision is, quote, yet another shameful ruling that |
| 1:51.2 | inserts the government directly between a patient and their doctor. |
| 1:57.0 | Apple is overhauling its app store in Europe to avoid more antitrust fines. |
| 2:01.6 | Reporters Samuel Stolton and Josh Cisco say the tech giant made the decision after getting hit with a $580 million penalty |
| 2:09.6 | for violating the European Union's Digital Markets Act. |
| 2:12.6 | Its new plan will make it easier and cheaper for third-party developers to promote payment |
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