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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The Trump administration has announced deals with pharmaceutical giants Norvo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to lower the costs for popular anti-obesity drugs. NPR Sidney Lubkin has more. Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's blockbuster obesity and type two diabetes drugs are the centerpiece of agreements announced by the White House. The drugs, Ozympic, Wagovi, Zepound, and Manjaro will be available. to the government at lower prices and to Medicare beneficiaries for a $50 copay.

The deals expand Medicare and Medicaid access for some, but not all patients with obesity, and the arrangements would expand discounts available to patients buying the drugs through TrumpRX.gov, a website that is expected to launch before the end of the year. The companies also promise that if experimental obesity pills they are developing win FDA approval, they will cost $149 per month for their starting doses. Sydney Lopkin, NPR News. The U.S. Supreme Court has given President Trump the OK to require passport applicants to list their sex at birth without any accommodation for transgender individuals. As NPR's Nina Totenberg reports, the decision overturns a lower court ruling that blocked implementation of the passport plan.

In an unsigned opinion, the six-member conservative court majority was unusually blunt, declaring that the Trump administration was suffering a form of. of irreparable injury by not being allowed to carry out a policy with foreign affairs implications. In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, speaking for the court's three liberals, accused the majority of once again paving the way for immediate infliction of injury without adequate or really any justification. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. The Congressional Budget Office says it's been hit by a cyber attack, partially disclosing government data to foreign actors. A spokesperson for the agency says steps have been taken to contain the situation,

including adding new security controls. Israel has carried out new airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least one person despite a U.S. broker's ceasefire reached last year. And P.R. Jawad Rasala has details. At around noon local time, Israeli warplanes struck a village in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said it was targeting what it called, quote, saboteurs in Hezbollah's construction unit. Later, the Israeli military issued evacuation warnings to residents in five other villages in the south,

before striking what it said was Hezbollah's, quote, military infrastructure. Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese state, which has vowed to disarm the militant group, have been responding to the year-long Israeli attacks, which have killed upward of 100 civilians, according to the UN. In a public letter to the Lebanese government, Hezbollah said it stands beside the army to defend Lebanese sovereignty. Shwaadrislavala, NPR News. You're listening to NPR. For the second time, in less than three months,

Ukrainian drones have attacked a major oil refinery in southwest Russia, according to Ukraine's army's general staff. The facility is the largest producer of fuel and lubricants in Russia's southern federal district and accounts for about 5% of the country's total refining capacity. Officials in Moscow have not confirmed the report, Although a local governor says drone started a fire at an unspecified facility in the same region. 2025 is on track to be the second or third hottest year on record.

The finding from the World Meteorological Organization's annual climate review comes as international climate negotiations begin in Brazil. NPR's Alejandra Burunda has more. WMO says the planet is about 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter than it was during the pre-industrial era. And all that planetary heating means it's almost more surprising when a year doesn't come with the tagline, the hottest year ever. So it doesn't look like 2025 will end up with that superlative. That's probably due to natural cycles and Earth's weather systems that dragged global temperatures down slightly this year. But overall, the pattern of global warming is clear.

That's according to WMO Deputy Secretary General Cobert. Each fraction of a degree matters for communities facing floods, droughts, and heat extremes. The report comes as the United Nations annual climate summit starts next week. No high-level officials from the United States will attend the meeting. Alejandro Burunda, NPR News. U.S. futures are higher in after-hours trading. This is NPR.

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