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Yesterday, President Trump met the Republicans of the Chamber in CapitoleUserping them to put themselves behind his massive tax and immigration bill or to risk an increase in tax. The invoice has around 1.5 billion of dollars of expense discounts, with a large part of those coming from modifications to Medicaid.

• 🎧 Overnight, a key committee met to define the parameters to debate the bill on the prosecution and always meetDEIDRE WALSH NPR tells First. Around 1 a.m., the chairman of the committee said they were approaching an agreement. Managers should increase the ceiling on state and local tax deductions in order to respond to the concerns of certain moderate legislators. Referring to Medicaid, Trump said during his visit to the Capitol, there would be no cuts and the plan targets waste, fraud and abuse. But as Walsh reports, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 8.6 million people could lose health coverage. A new CBO analysis also finds that the poorest 10% of Americans would lose resources, while the highest 10% would see a bump in their income.

Today, the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, should meet Trump in the White House To try to reset relations between the two countries. Earlier this year, the Trump administration reduced aid in South Africa and expelled its ambassador. In addition, the American administration has repeatedly criticized Pretoria for what it wrongly claims is the systematic persecution of white Afrikaner farmers – and the South African part has tried several times to correct Washington.

• 🎧 Journalist Kate Bartlett says that Ramaphosa, a qualified negotiator who worked alongside Nelson Mandela to end apartheid, could call on Trump’s transaction side and American efforts to counter China in Africa. The South Africans watch closely to see if Ramaphosa is treated with the same disdaining as the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was confronted during his visit to the Oval Office earlier this year, said Bartlett.

A new NPR analysis revealed that the Government Ministry of Efficiency has tried to reduce At least 40 agencies and groups in recent weeks. The analysis revealed that DOGE has targeted contracts and expenses according to political disagreements, rather than only waste, fraud or abuse.

• 🎧 Doge has tried to reach out to places that are not government agenciesLike the private non -profit institute Vera of Justice and the Independent Corporation for Public Broadcasting, said Stephen Fowler of NPR. These agencies said no to DOGE requests. There have been more than a dozen legal proceedings filed linked to Doge’s efforts in these small organizations that say that it is not legal. Many agencies have been created by Congress, almost all of funding and functions set out by law, in certain cases explicitly limiting the power of the president.

Deep

An employee has a full -size LMR prototype battery cell at General Motors Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. GM prototyped about 300 full LMR cells because it worked with the LG energy solution to break the code on chemistry.

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Lithium-ion batteries were invented in the United States, but years ago, China began to open the way in their mass production as part of its thrust for electric vehicles. Now a competition emerges to determine which country will dominate the future of EV batteries. Here is why this competition becomes more complicated:

• 🔋 Chinese car manufacturers announce more recent and better batteries, especially in vehicles promising 5 -minute “Flash load” time. US companies have not announced anything, focusing on cost reduction.
• 🔋 China plans to install 4,000 fast charging stations, none of which will be in the United States, where Chinese electric vehicles face the risks of heavy prices and technological restrictions.
• 🔋 Companies around the world try to build batteries depending on sodium batteries or “solid state”. These technologies could be safer, cheaper and offer higher energy storage.
• 🔋 The Trump administration began the process of relaunching incentives, infrastructures and requirements encouraging electric vehicles.

Discover other factors that take place in the big battery race between the two countries here.

Life advice

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What you eat before going to bed can affect the way you sleep at night. Sleep researchers share with Rescue kit The impact of diet, caffeine and alcohol on sleep health. Here are their do and not to do in science:

• 😴 Find foods like almonds, salmon and brown rice that are rich in tryptophan, an amino acid converted into serotonin and melatonin in the brain.
• 😴 Exchange processed foods for more fruits and vegetables. They are rich in fiber and nutrients like serotonin and melatonin, which can help you sleep more deeply.
• 😴 Avoid caffeine late during the day. It blocks adenosine, a chemical that makes you feel asleep at night.

For more advice on eating habits that can help you sleep better at night, listen to this episode of NPR Rescue kit. Subscribe to Rescue kit Newsletter for expert advice on love, money, relationships and more.

3 things to know before leaving

Apart from the suspicions of the book, social media is the number one customers for the book to read.

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1. The future of the promotion of books moves while writers are looking at social media while some authors promise to take a break in writing spinning books, commonly seen on the back of books. Several authors discuss change in the literary community.
2. Today, an auction house in Chicago will sell items that were on the body of Abraham Lincoln at night when he was murdered, his first known writing and other relics in his life. (via WBE)
3. Actor George Wendt, 76, who played Norm Peterson in the TV sitcom Acclamationsdied peacefully in his sleep at home yesterday.

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