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Gaza families are starving. Aid agencies want action. · Apple News Today

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  Gideon Resnick, Narrating: Good morning. It's Wednesday, January 17th.
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  I'm Gideon Resnick, in for Shumita Basu. This is Apple News Today.
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  On today's show, humanitarian conditions in Gaza more than 100 days into the war,
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  how a small fish could upend the power of federal agencies,
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  And why tennis balls are serving up controversy among pro players.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  First, to the Middle East, where the United States struck
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  Houthi targets in Yemen again.
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  The U.S. has been targeting the Iran-backed rebel group
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  for attacking commercial ships.
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  And the Biden administration is reportedly planning to put the Houthis
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  back on its list of designated terrorist groups.
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  Also, Iran has launched attacks inside Pakistan, Iraq, and Syria,
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  all while Israel wages war on Hamas in Gaza.
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  The new wave of violence has analysts worried
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  about the Gaza conflict spreading into a broader regional war.
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  Meanwhile, Qatar says it and France have struck a deal between Israel
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  and Hamas that would allow more medicine
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  and humanitarian aid to be delivered to the people of Gaza,
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  in exchange for medication being given to the hostages held by Hamas.
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  This deal comes as the UN has called on Israel to allow in more aid.
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  They say more than a quarter of Gaza's population is starving.
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  That's over half a million people.
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  About half of Gaza's population is children.
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  Marwan Al-Ghoul, a journalist in Gaza, told "CBS" that conditions were already,
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  quote, "Miserable before the war, and they've gotten much worse."
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  [START CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Marwan Al-Ghoul: Not enough water, not enough food, no place to sleep.
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  It's very difficult to describe.
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  [END CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: Dr. Paul Spiegel worked in Cairo with a UN agency to support
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  the public health response in Gaza.
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  And he told "CBS," survival needs are barely being met.
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  [START CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Dr. Speigel: It's completely insufficient.
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  And therefore, the ability in the humanitarian space to respond
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  is not possible.
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  The health care services, the hospitals and many health centers
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  are being actively attacked and bombed.
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  And therefore, the amount of care that is available is reducing
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  on a continuous basis.
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  [END CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: With no immediate end in sight to the war, families in Gaza are caught
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  [AMBIENT MUSIC FADES IN]
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  in the middle, trying to feed their children
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  when food is scarce and help is falling short.
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  Now let's take a quick look at some other stories
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  that are in the news.
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  Brutally cold weather is sweeping across America.
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  There are more than a dozen deaths blamed on the Arctic blast.
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  Many are in Oregon, where power outages are making it hard to deal
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  with freezing temperatures.
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  Portland's "Fox" station talked to a resident about trees knocked over
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  in the storm.
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  [START FOX ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Unidentified Speaker 2: We had three oaks come down in the backyard,
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  big ones that did damage to the roof.
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  We had two fir trees come down in the front yards that took down
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  power lines and everything.
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  [END FOX ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: Across the country, there are school closures
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  and travel disruptions, with thousands of flights canceled
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  or delayed.
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  Nashville got more snow in a day than it typically gets in a year.
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  And in Texas, the power grid operators asked people to conserve electricity
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  to avoid outages.
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  It looks as though things are holding up.
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  Grid failures in a Texas winter storm in 2021 killed hundreds of people.
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  In legal news, the man who shot and killed five people at an LGBTQ plus nightclub
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  in Colorado last year is agreeing to plead guilty to federal hate crime
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  and gun charges.
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  The federal government will not seek the death penalty in the Club Q shooting.
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  Court filings say the plea agreement will result in multiple sentences
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  totaling 190 years.
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  And the Supreme Court is not going to hear a case involving students
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  and bathroom access.
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  Last year, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of a transgender middle school
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  student who wanted to use the restroom matching his gender identity.
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  With the high court declining to step in, that ruling will stand.
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  Staying with the Supreme Court, today it's hearing arguments in a pair
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  of cases that are technically about rules around commercial fishing.
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  But the impact could go far beyond questions about catching herring.
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  The court could deliver a ruling that blows away decades of precedent,
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  and weakens the ability of federal agencies to regulate
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  the environment, financial markets, workplaces, healthcare, and more.
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  These cases were brought by fishing companies,
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  and they're backed by conservative legal groups.
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  They believe a government mandate requiring them to pay people to monitor
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  their boats is unreasonable.
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  But as Washington Post Supreme Court correspondent Ann Marimow told us,
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  these arguments are really about the fate of a landmark case that involved Chevron.
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  [START ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Ann Marimow: And that case set up a framework that judges have used now
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  since 1984 to evaluate regulations that federal agencies
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  have put into effect and whether the agencies
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  made a reasonable interpretation of statutes set by Congress.
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  And that may sound like a boring academic exercise, but it's really important.
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: The case was enormously influential.
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  It created what judges and lawyers now call Chevron deference.
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  In short, it requires courts to defer to federal agencies
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  when it comes to turning laws passed by Congress into actual regulations.
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  If Congress was not explicit about something,
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  courts have to trust how agencies interpret it,
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  as long as they're reasonable.
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  Critics of Chevron deference say that it has given federal agencies
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  too much power in recent decades and resulted in too much red tape.
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  And those critics think they have a shot at big changes
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  with this conservative Supreme Court.
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  [START ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Marimow: Chevron is being heard by a court that has really been remade
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  with the addition of three justices nominated by former President Trump,
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  whose administration put a premium on recruiting judges who were skeptical
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  of federal power and what they refer to as the administrative state.
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  They think that unaccountable bureaucrats should not have this much power
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  and that it should really be up to judges to use their independent judgment
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  when looking at these, what they consider, burdensome regulations.
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: If the fishing companies win here, Chevron deference could fall
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  or be scaled back.
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  And these aren't the only cases this term that will test the power
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  of the federal government.
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  Marimow: There's one challenging the in-house administrative judges
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  at the Securities and Exchange Commission
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  that looks to limit fraud in the financial markets.
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  And there's another case challenging the funding for the CFPB,
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  that's the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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  So this one being heard today about Chevron deference is just one
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  of a series going after really the power of the administrative state.
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: The Supreme Court's upcoming cases on abortion and Trump's election
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  eligibility may be getting more attention.
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  But these other cases, starting with today's arguments,
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  could fundamentally change how much power
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  the federal government has when it comes to regulating
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  the important issues of our time.
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  The Australian Open, the tennis world's first major
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  of the year, is underway.
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  And right now, the sport has some controversy
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  involving the highlighter yellow-greenish
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  balls, with some players saying they're causing injuries.
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  So they say the balls are inconsistent across tournaments.
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  Sometimes they're heavier or fluffier.
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  And some balls, they say they have to hit a lot harder.
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  One top player said playing with some of these balls
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  are like hitting a grapefruit,
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  forcing players into 30-shot rallies because they can't hit winning shots.
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  Different tennis ball brands are used at different tournaments,
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  and players say the lack of consistency is actually dangerous.
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  Novak Djokovic spoke about this in November during the Davis Cup.
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  [START ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Novak Djokovic: There's been a lot of discussions on the effect of the different balls,
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  basically every week, on the joints and the wrists and the shoulders
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  and the elbows.
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: He and other top players say professional tennis should standardize
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  ball designs so that all manufacturers can stick
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  to common specifications and players will know what to expect
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  at different tournaments.
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  In response, the governing bodies for men's and women's professional tennis
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  are now conducting a "strategic review" of tennis balls.
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  They say they'll aim for more consistency without disrupting
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  the money-making sponsorship deals
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  with the companies that make the balls in question.
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  For now, at least one player says he's actually planning his tournament
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  schedule for the year based on the kind of balls being used.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're already listening in the News app right now, stick around.
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  We've got a Narrated Article coming up next
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  from "The Atlantic" that aims to answer a question that American parents,
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  prospective parents,
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  and observers around the world can't seem to figure out.
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  Why is it so difficult to raise a child in the U.S., the world's richest country?
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  Congress may have a bipartisan deal that would expand the child tax credit
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  for families, but the U.S. still provides far less support for families
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  than other wealthy countries do.
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  "The Atlantic" argues having a family in America really shouldn't be so hard.
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  If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News+ Narrated
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  to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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