This NPR News segment covers a dangerous heat wave affecting the U.S. East Coast during the Fourth of July holiday, a major political upset in Colorado, a new Medicare program offering affordable obesity drugs, the lifting of U.S. export restrictions on advanced AI models from Anthropic,
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