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Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, information from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Nick Reiner, the son of director Rob Reiner, has been arrested. Los Angeles authorities are investigating after two bodies were found in Rob Reiner's home yesterday. News reports cite a Reiner family statement. It says that Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, are dead. Australian leaders have agreed to tighten gun laws in response to the shooting attack yesterday on a high. Monica event at Sydney's Bondi Beach. At least 15 people there were killed and dozens of others wounded. Australian police shot and killed one suspect and wounded the second. Christina Cucolia reports. It's been described as the biggest overhaul of Australian gun laws since reforms that followed a mass shooting in Tasmania in the 1990s. At a meeting led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese one day

after the Bondi Beach attack, state and territory leaders agreed to take immediate action. the number of firearms a person can own is among the options being considered, another is to make Australian citizenship a condition for holding a gun licence. The national government says it will prioritize potential customs restrictions on firearms and other weapons-type imports. For NPR News, I'm Christina Kokola in Melbourne. House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled his plan to replace subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. The subsidies run out at the end of this year, and Congress has not rather passed a new plan. California Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley says he would support the Speaker's plan, but expects that it will fail. Instead, he wants to extend the current

ACA subsidies. Kylie says leaders of both parties knew this deadline was coming. The reality of the situation is, and you can have critiques about where we are when it comes to health care policy, and I have my own about the spiraling costs that continue to grow and grow and grow. But 22 million people shouldn't be forced to pay the price for that. Shouldn't be forced to pay the price for congressional inaction. We're talking about small business owners and their employees, independent contractors, gig workers, early retirees who will be forced to pray a price that many simply can't afford. He spoke to NPR's morning edition. It's been raining almost nonstop for the past five days in Washington State triggering heavy flooding. Some parts of the state will see more rain

all this coming week. From member station KUOW, Scott Greenstone reports the ground is saturated. In Seattle's suburbs, heavy winds of around 50 miles per hour are expected. Reed Wolcott is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Soils are extremely loose. It does not take 50-mile-an-hour winds to knock over trees. Landslide risk is high in many areas. Mudslides have already hit the tiny town of Tjikin on the shores of Lake Chelan. For NPR News, I'm Scott Greenstone in Seattle. On Wall Street, the Dow was down more than 15.

50 points. This is NPR. FBI director Cash Patel says his agency has disrupted an alleged terror threat set for New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. He says four people connected to L.A. have been arrested in connection with the plot. Patel says a fifth person has been detained in New Orleans. Voters in Chile yesterday elected an ultra-conservative for president. They rejected the current far-left government's candidate. Chilean press. President-elect Jose Antonio Kast is promising a hard line against rising crime and illegal immigration. And Pierre's Kerry Kahn has more. 59-year-old Jose Antonio Kass's ultra-conservative stances, especially on women's issues and his support of the Pinochet dictatorship, were too hard line in his two previous presidential bids.

This time, he focused more on concerns over crime and rising migration, especially from Venezuela. In a meandering hour-long acceptance speech, he told a huge. huge crowd in Santiago that change was coming, but said it would take time. Like other recently elected conservatives in Latin America, cast pledged a crackdown on crime with more police and prisons. He says the more than 300,000 migrants estimated to live in Chile without legal status have until his inauguration in March to self-deport, or he'll send police to find them. Carrie Kahn, NPR News. Workers at the famed Louvre Museum in Paris have voted to strike. The museum is closed due to today's walkout. The workers are pointing to working conditions

and are demanding renovations. The strike vote comes after thieves stole priceless gems and a daylight robbery. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.