WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 1-2-26 (2/3)

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Mark Mellinger. There was no break in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine this New Year's Day. Russia attacked Ukraine's Odessa Region Thursday. Odessa's regional head said several waves of drones targeted civilian infrastructure, including a two-story residential building. No casualties were reported. Meanwhile, Russia says a Ukrainian drone killed two dozen people and wounded at least 50 others in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine's Kersan region.

President Trump says he regrets getting advanced imaging on his heart and abdomen last fall. As World's Travis Kircher reports, the commander-in-chief says it caused unnecessary alarm. In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, the president says he underwent a CT scan, not an MRI, as he originally said, when he visited Walter Reed Medical Center in October. A CT scan is quicker and offers less detail than an MRI. Trump now says he regrets undergoing the scan because it raised public questions about his health. The president's doctor said he recommended Trump undergo the scan as a routine preventative screening because he was going to be at the medical center anyway and added that the results were perfectly normal.

Trump also says he takes a larger daily dose of aspirin than his doctors recommend because he's, quote, a little superstitious. The White House says Trump's usage of aspirin is partly the reason for bruising on his hands. For World, I'm Travis Kircher. Health insurance costs are going up for millions of Americans in the new year. That's because Congress last year did not renew enhanced tax credits to help low-income families afford their insurance through the federal marketplace. The Kaiser Family Foundation says premium costs for those families could rise 114%. Health insurance navigators, Zanjanez Jacobs. People simply can't afford some of the premiums that have been happening in this coming year. The Foundation also says costs for health insurance premiums will be

going up across the board affecting almost everyone. For the next few days, the Washington Monument is featuring a special light show display with narration set to huge projected images of American history. We are a people who never stop building. Never stop climbing. Never stop dreaming. The display wrapping around the monument is 20 minutes long, running at night, on the hour, every hour, through January 5th. The display is the work of Freedom 250, the group tasked with organizing the nation's 250th birthday celebrations this year. For World Radio, I'm Mark Mellinger.

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