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This NPR News Now episode delivers a rapid-fire update on pressing national and global issues, including President Trump's controversial $90 Medicare payment pledge, G7 oil reserves release to stabilize diesel markets, Meta’s massive data center expansion in Louisiana creating local jobs,
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