Brown Shooting and MIT Murder Suspect Dead, HHS Takes on Child ＂Trans＂ Procedures： AM Update 12⧸19
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The suspect in the Brown University shooting was found dead, as authorities connect him to a second murder taking place days later, a few miles away and miles away. This is not medicine, it s malpractice. We re done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits. HHS officials announce a set of proposals in an effort to prevent so-called gender-affirming care for minors. The inflation report beats expectations as the White House touts a strengthening economy. All that and more coming up in a moment on your AM Update.
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It's Friday, December 19th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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Tonight, our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier.
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The suspect in the Brown University shooting found dead
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as authorities connect him to a second murder taking place days later and miles away.
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We're done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits.
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HHS officials announcing a set of proposals in an effort to prevent so-called gender-affirming care
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for minors. Retired NASCAR driver and humanitarian Greg Biffle tragically killed in a plane crash
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with his family. The inflation report beats expectations as the White House touts a strengthening
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economy. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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gone. They found him. Late yesterday, authorities locating the man suspected of the Brown University
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shooting. 48-year-old former Brown University physics PhD candidate Claudio Manuel Neves Valente,
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dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Salem, New Hampshire, at a storage unit about 90 miles away
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from the university. Authorities say Valente was a Portuguese national, and his last known address
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was in Miami, Florida. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerona saying Valente originally came into
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the United States on a student visa back in 2000, receiving lawful permanent resident status in
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September 2017. Providence, Rhode Island police chief Oscar Perez describing the police work leading to
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the storage unit. The police were trying to find a man, reportedly homeless, seen on videotape,
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who had apparently seen the suspect prior to the shooting. That man, it turns out, took down the
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suspect's license plate and later provided it to police. Listen. All the new images that we received of this
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person of interest were shared with the media continuously over the past six days. We looked at
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financial records, we looked at video footages, and in the specific incident, it was actually a video that
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provided us with a description of a vehicle. That was corroborated to a tip that was received to the tip
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center. Then Flock and the LPR was able to provide us with this description of this vehicle. That vehicle
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was picked up by Flock, which led us to a car rental place in Massachusetts. Through that, the agents and
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their work as well were able to get us footage of this individual, as well as a copy of the agreement,
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which provided his real name. The video of that subject matched the description of that person
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of interest that this police department was desperate to put handcuffs on. An individual was
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identified as Claudio Neves Valenti. Brown University President Christina Paxson saying Valenti was enrolled
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at the university from fall 2000 to spring 2001 to study in the physics PhD program. Valenti taking a
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leave of absence in spring 2001, then formally withdrawing in July 2003. More here from Paxson.
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During his time at Brown, Nueves Valenti was enrolled only in physics classes. The majority of physics
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classes at Brown have always been held within the Barris and Hawley classrooms and labs. He has no
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current active affiliation with the university or campus presence.
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The press briefing beginning shortly after confirmation of Valenti's death, leaving authorities
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with limited information about the shooter. FBI special agent in charge of Boston Ted Dox saying
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much of the investigative work remains in determining a motive and that the body was discovered near a
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satchel, two firearms, and evidence matching the crime scene. Chief Perez saying investigators are not
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yet sure how long Valenti had been dead when they arrived at the storage unit. Authorities saying they
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believe he acted alone. Yesterday afternoon, reports surfacing of a link between the Brown University
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shooting and the murder of MIT physics professor Nuno Lorero, age 47, a husband and father of three,
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who was shot at his Brookline, Massachusetts apartment building Monday night. U.S. Attorney for the
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District of Massachusetts, Leah Foley, in a separate press conference saying the suspect and the
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professor attended the same academic program in Portugal years ago. There is no indication,
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Foley added, that the gunman knew any of the victims at Brown University. Foley detailing how authorities
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were able to connect the cases. So investigators identified the vehicle that he had rented in Boston
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and then drove to Rhode Island. And he was seen, the vehicle was seen outside of Brown and there was
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security footage that showed a person who resembled him. There was online, there was financial
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investigations that were going on in the background that linked him not only to that car, but also to
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the hotels that he had rented and the cars, the car that he had used to not only drive to Rhode Island,
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but then back to Boston. And then there was the security footage that captured him within a half mile
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of the professor's residence in Brookline. And there is a video footage of him entering an apartment building
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in the location of the professor's apartment. And then later that evening, he is seen about an hour later
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entering the storage unit, wearing the same clothes that he had been seen wearing right after the murder.
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Foley saying Valenti went to significant lengths to avoid detection, switching license plates and
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potentially using European SIM cards in his phone to avoid geolocation. She also said she was not aware
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of Valenti having any criminal record in the United States. Investigators promising more information to be
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revealed in the days to come. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday
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unveiling six proposals to prevent so-called gender-affirming care for minors. HHS opting to
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refer to these treatments more accurately as sex-rejecting procedures. Secretary Kennedy on the
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administration's goals with these policy changes. Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect
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children. Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures
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that violate their sacred Hippocratic oath by endangering the very lives that they are sworn to
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safeguard. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, peddled the lie
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that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender
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dysphoria. This is not medicine. It is malpractice. We're done with junk science driven by ideological
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pursuits, not the well-being of children. Under the HHS proposals, hospitals performing these procedures
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on children under 18 would be banned from participating in Medicare, a government insurance program for the
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elderly and disabled, and also Medicaid, which is a need-based government insurance program. HHS says
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nearly all hospitals in America participate in these programs. The proposals would not have any effect
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on hospitals and clinics that do not participate in these taxpayer-funded programs. Chloe Cole, a girl
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who underwent this life-altering treatment as a minor before coming to terms with the reality that she
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could not be a boy, at the conference yesterday describing the lifelong impacts that a few short
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years of this treatment will have on her. For me, it started with being lied to about who I was.
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By adults outside of my family, my doctors, rather than guiding me, they affirmed my childish misgivings
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about my developing body. At 13 years old, I was administered puberty blockers and testosterone in high
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doses. And when I was only 15, they removed my breasts. But that mastectomy ensured that I am never going to be
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able to nourish whatever children I may have. And this happened before I was even mature enough to understand that one
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day I would aspire to become a mother. Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program would be
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prohibited from funding sex-rejecting procedures for patients under 18 and 19 years old, respectively.
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Secretary Kennedy also signing a declaration stating these procedures do not meet professionally
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recognized standards of health care. Additionally, the FDA is sending warnings to 12 manufacturers and
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retailers over marketing breast binders to little girls who are distressed by puberty and want to
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suppress natural growth to appear more male. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary with more
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information on the harms these things can inflict. Breast binders are a class one medical device with
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legitimate medical users, such as being used by women after breast cancer surgery. And these binders
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are not benign. Long-term usage has been associated with pain, compromised lung function from
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atelectasis collapse, and even difficulty breastfeeding later in life. The warning letters will formally
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notify the companies of their significant regulatory violations and require prompt corrective action.
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HHS will also move to reverse the Biden-era inclusion of gender dysphoria as a disability.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on these sinister political
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forces driving this twisted ideology. We are in a weird place in America where we have mixed politics
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and medicine. And you know what you get when you mix politics and medicine? Politics. There is no
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medicine left. We witness that with bizarre statements, predatory actions, and many other activities that I think
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have forced children to the tip of the spear where they have brunt the burden of this toxic combination.
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We've been told that permanently altering bodies of children, and the children are told this as well,
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will bring them lasting peace. But few have achieved the inner peace promised by these charlatans
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and the talking heads, the media personalities, the social media posts. All these have created a
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dishonest narrative. And of course, many of these children are left with the most tragic parts of all the
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treatments that they've succumbed themselves to. The American Civil Liberties Union saying it will take the
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administration to court. What else is new? Secretary Kennedy saying he is confident the administration will
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succeed. The number of lawsuits with my name on it right now is almost beyond counting. So we have, you know, we got
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everything that we do here. We have an excellent, excellent general counsel. We know what we do. What
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we're doing is legal. And if people sue us, they're welcome to, but we're going to win the losses.
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The administration's confidence likely buoyed by the fact that the high court in June upheld a Tennessee
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law that prohibits medical professionals from prescribing or administering puberty blockers and hormones
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to minors seeking to, quote, transition. The justices in that case declining to declare transgender
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individuals a constitutionally protected class that would trigger heightened judicial scrutiny of any law
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affecting them. Coming up, a celebrated former NASCAR driver and his family killed in a plane crash in
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North Carolina. And as the White House promotes a rebounding economy, the inflation report surpasses
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expectations. As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in
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government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle,
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his wife Christina, and two children, 14-year-old Emma and five-year-old Ryder, killed in a plane crash
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just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. Three other people aboard the plane also killed in the
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accident. The Cessna C-550 jet crashing while landing at Statesville Regional Airport. Shortly
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after 10 a.m., flight trackers showing the Florida-bound plane taking off, then quickly circling back to the
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airport. Christina Biffle's mother, Kathy Grossu, revealing on Thursday that those on board appeared to
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know the plane was in trouble. Telling People magazine her daughter sent her a three-word text
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just before the crash. We're in trouble. Video of the crash site showing the small jet plane
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fully engulfed in flames. Authorities have not yet identified the cause of the crash.
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North Carolina State Highway Patrol spokesman Christopher Knox delivering an update on the investigation.
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The FAA has been on the scene this afternoon and working through their initial phases of an
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investigation. We spoke with the NTSB. They will be arriving early in the morning, and then they will
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pick up the investigation taken from there. The State Highway Patrol will remain throughout the night
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and as long as it's needed to preserve the evidence in this case. As you can see, or as you might have
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heard, that the evidence does span throughout airport property and off-airport property, so we'll be
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working to secure that evidence and being in place as long as those federal authorities need us.
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But as follow-up details specific to why the crash happened and those details that are compiled
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a part of that investigation, that will come from the NTSB in the days and weeks and months that
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follow. So that's all the details really that I have for you. That's all we're able to put out this
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time. Biffle winning 19 races at the Cup Series level across his career, including the Trucks Series
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Championship in 2000 and the Xfinity Series title in 2002. In 2023, Biffle named one of NASCAR's 75
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greatest drivers. In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last September, Biffle flying his personal
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helicopter to deliver aid and rescue stranded victims. Congressman Richard Hudson of North Carolina,
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I'm devastated by the loss of Greg, Christina, and their children, and my heart is with all who
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loved them. They were friends who lived their lives focused on helping others. The Biffles flew
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hundreds of rescue missions in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. The last time I spoke with
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Christina, just a couple of weeks ago, she reached out to ask how she could help with relief efforts in
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Jamaica. That's who the Biffles were. Our prayers are with their family, friends, and everyone grieving this
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unimaginable loss. After 11 months, our border is secure. Inflation has stopped. Wages are up. Prices
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are down. Our nation is strong. America is respected. And our country is back stronger than ever before.
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We're poised for an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen. Just a few hours after
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President Trump's primetime address on Wednesday, the November Consumer Price Index, or CPI, the government's
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key measure of inflation, showing prices rising at just 2.7 percent year over year, dropping to its lowest
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level in months. November's report reflects inflation cooling from September's 3 percent reading and beating
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analysts' expectations of an increase to 3.1 percent. Harvard economist Ken Rogoff reacting yesterday morning
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on CNN. I mean, I was surprised it was a better number than anyone was expecting. Look, inflation's
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been very high. It's stayed high. It has not been coming down. But, you know, people were expecting it
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to be above 3 percent. It was well below 3 percent. I mean, I think the president will take this as good
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news. The investors will think that interest rates will get cut more. So, you know, it was it was a
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positive news. There's no other way to spin it. November's report marking the lowest inflation
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reading since July, following months of gradual increases after the administration's April
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Liberation Day tariffs announcement. While the overall rate of inflation is decreasing, some
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everyday consumer prices remain high, including beef, coffee, electricity, and used cars. The October
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report was skipped entirely due to the government shutdown, markets rising slightly on news of the report
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after a recent slump. Let's hope this trend continues.
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And that'll do it for your AM update. We'll be back after the Christmas break with new live
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programming on Monday, January 5th. In the meantime, join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show,
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live on SiriusXM's The MK Channel, 111 at noon east, on youtube.com slash megynkelly,
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and on all podcast platforms. And have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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