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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The Trump administration has announced two more deals with the pharmaceutical industry to lower drug costs. As NPR, Sidney Lubkin reports, the latest agreements are with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the makers of popular but expensive anti-obesity drugs. The centerpiece of the deals is blockbuster drugs for type 2 diabetes and obesity, so OZempik, Wagovi, Manjaro, and Zepbound. It expands coverage to some, but not all Medicare beneficiaries with obesity. They have to have additional health conditions or a body mass index over 35.

People with Medicare will be able to get them for a copay of $50 a month. State Medicaid programs will have to opt in, but the lower cost of the drugs to the government, $2.45 per patient per month, is something that I'm hearing will likely push them toward this. NPR Sidney Lubkin reporting. carriers have begun canceling flights as the FAA's restrictions take hold. The agency is reducing flight capacity by 10 percent at 40 major airports to ease staffing issues during the government shutdown. Atlanta is among the affected cities as WAB East Marlon Hyde reports. Inside

Hartfield-Jackson-Atlanta International Airport, Ellen Silva just arrived from Baltimore. She's staying until Tuesday. Silver is a professional pet sitter and is concerned that her job might be affected if her return flight is altered by the flight reductions. I would miss work and I'd have some very unhappy people that I work for because they depend on me so they can travel. And if I'm not there, they can't leave. Airlines encourage customers to check their flight status before heading to the airport. Frontier and Delta Airlines expect flights will go as planned. Customers whose flights are canceled or delayed can rebook or request a refund online. For NPR News, I'm Marlon Hyde in Atlanta. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it's taken steps to contain a cybersecurity attack.

CBO warns that the government data may have been compromised. The agency provides information on the budget and the economy to Congress. Federal investigators say they're reviewing maintenance records for the UPS cargo plane that crashed in Louisville this week. W.E.KU's Curtis Tate has details. National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Enman says the MD-11 aircraft underwent maintenance in San Antonio for several weeks. And we will move forward and we will look at every piece of maintenance that was done even from the San Antonio time all the way to the date of the flight. Inman also says data were successfully extracted from the plane's black box

and it showed the aircraft reached an altitude of 475 feet and was traveling 210 miles an hour before it crashed. The plane was fully loaded with fuel and left a fiery trail of debris half a mile long. UPS has now identified the three crew members who died. For NPR news, I'm Curtis Tate in Shelbyville, Kentucky. This is NPR. The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is joining the Abraham Accords, which formerly normalized relations between Israel and Muslim and Arab majority countries.

The move is symbolic since Kazakhstan has carried out diplomacy with Israel since 1992. Existing Abraham Accord nations are Bafrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and Morocco. On his social media site, President Trump posted a message saying that many more countries are trying to join what he calls a club of strength. The Abraham, of course, were signed during the Trump's first term. Several nations in Africa are experiencing a surge in cholera cases, an acute diarrheal infection that comes from drinking contaminated water. NPR's Gabriella Emmanuel has more. In the past few weeks, Angola has seen an almost 700% increase in cholera cases, with about 1,000. new cases last week. Kids represent a third of those cases. Cholera is both preventable and

treatable, but it requires good water infrastructure and rapid medical attention. Yat Boom of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says across the continent, cholera's return is worrying health experts. We see the number of total cases that are tripling what we've seen in 2022, and same thing for the number of deaths. He expects things could get worse, as many countries head into their rainy season. Gabriela Emmanuel, NPR News. Wall Street stocks close lower with the Dow Jones Industrial's falling 399 points.

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