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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Korova Coleman, Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney will be meeting President Trump at the White House today. Their visit will be the first time Trump's met with a European leader since he announced tariffs on European imports. NPR's Deepa Sivaram reports. Tariffs are expected to be a main part of the conversation between Maloney and Trump, who have an amicable relationship. Maloney, head of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, was the only leader to attend Trump's inauguration this year. But relations

with Europe have been tense after Trump announced 20 percent tariffs on European imports, which he then reduced to 10 percent to allow for negotiations to take place. Maloney last visited Trump at his Florida home in January and she's set to host Vice President JD Vance in Italy in the coming days. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, The White House. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says the Trump administration is likely in criminal contempt. The judge says the administration has purposely ignored his order to turn around planes deporting

migrants to El Salvador last month. Medications known as GLP-1 have revolutionized the way the doctors treat weight loss. That started largely with Ozempic, its Novo Nordics blockbuster diabetes drug. But most of the current options on the market are injectables. These can be intimidating for patients to use. And PR Sydney Lepkin reports a new GLP-1 pill is now on the horizon. Eli Lilly is announcing that early results from a Phase 3 clinical trial of its GLP-1 pill is now on the horizon. Eli Lilly is announcing that early results from a Phase 3 clinical trial of its GLP-1 pill show it reduced participants A1C, a measure of blood sugar control, better than placebo.

The trial lasted 40 weeks and was only for people with type 2 diabetes. According to the company, the safety and efficacy was consistent with its injectable GLP-1 drugs ZepBound and Manjaro. The once-daily pill also helped patients lose up to 16 pounds. The company plans to report the results at the American Diabetes Association Conference and publish them in a peer-reviewed medical journal later this year. Sydney Lepkin, NPR News. Stocks open mixed this morning as President Trump attacked the Federal Reserve for not

lowering interest rates. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 400 points in early trading. The European Central Bank lowered interest rates today and President Trump would like the Federal Reserve to take similar action. Of course political leaders in Europe have not launched a trade war which threatens to raise prices for their citizens. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell warned in a speech this week that Trump's new tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation. That's discouraging the Fed from cutting interest rates any further. This is not the first time Trump has criticized

the Fed for keeping borrowing costs elevated. He says Powell's termination, quote, cannot come fast enough. Powell has insisted he plans to serve out his term as Fed chairman, which runs through next spring. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. On Wall Street, the Dow is now down 424 points. The Nasdaq is up about 30 points. This is NPR. U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington State says that Head Start centers across the country have not been able to get $1 billion in federal funding they're owed.

The Democratic senator says some Head Start preschool classrooms are now closed. Murray charges the Trump administration is slow walking the money. Head Start is a child development program for the nation's poorest children. Research has shown that in many age groups, men drink more alcohol than women. A new study suggests that in one category of young women, aged 18 to 25, women are drinking more like their male peers. And peers Katie Arittle reports on the study from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers define binge drinking as five drinks in one occasion for men and four for women. Bryant Shuey is a professor of medicine at University

of Pittsburgh and one of the authors of this study. We're seeing the gap in binge drinking between females narrowing across all adults with young adult females binge drinking at a higher rate than their male counterparts for the first time. Roughly 31% of young women indicated binge drinking in the last month compared to 30% of males. Shuey points out that overall, younger people have been drinking less in recent years. This study just shows that younger men and women have similar drinking patterns. Katie Riddle, NPR News.

Two New York corrections officers have pleaded not guilty to murder charges. It's in connection with the beating death of a prisoner last month. This happened while some New York State prison guards were staging an unapproved strike. I'm Korva Kuhlman, NPR News, from Washington.