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| The Senate approved a sweeping bill that lowers drug prices and promotes clean energy. President Joe Biden will visit Kentucky today following last month's historic flooding. An emaciated Beluga whale in France's river Seine is resisting rescue efforts – and running out of time. |
| 🙋🏼♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert, and here's Monday's news. |
| 🌅 Up first: Were the boys really drugged during the Thai cave rescue? "Thirteen Lives" (in theaters now and streaming on Amazon Prime) follows the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018. Director Ron Howard and screenwriter Will Nicholson break down the movie's most surprising fictional and real-life moments. Click here to find out more. |
 | | Thira "Aum" Chutikul (left) as Commander Kiet and Viggo Mortensen (right) as Rick Stanton in "Thirteen Lives", directed by Ron Howard, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. | | Vince Valitutti / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, Vince Valitutti / Metro Goldwyn | |
Senate passes sweeping bill lowering drug prices, promoting clean energy |
| Senate Democrats approved sweeping legislation on health care, climate and taxes along a party-line vote Sunday after a 15-hour "vote-a-rama" that began at 11:30 p.m., delivering a major win for President Joe Biden and his agenda before the midterm elections. Every Democrat voted in support of the Inflation Reduction Act and every Republican against the measure. It heads to a vote in the Democratic-controlled House, where it's likely to pass as early as Friday. Read more |
| Why it matters: The bill tackles long-standing liberal priorities. |
| • | Health care: The bill would allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices – long opposed by the pharmaceutical industry – and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies three more years through 2025. | | • | Climate: The bill invests $370 billion into a range of policies aimed at reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions – making it the most substantial effort by the federal government to tackle climate change in history. | | • | ''We need a change maker'': Dems want more from Biden on abortion and climate – and worry his actions could cost them the midterms. | |
 | | Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks during a news conference about the Inflation Reduction Act outside the U.S. Capitol on August 4, 2022 in Washington, DC. | | Drew Angerer, Getty Images | |
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| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, Congressional reporter Dylan Wells has the latest on the Senate's passing of the Inflation Reduction Act. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
Sweeping Indiana abortion ban enacted, the first such law since Roe overturned |
| Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a near-total abortion ban late Friday after the law was passed in the state's General Assembly. The law, known as Senate Bill 1, bans abortion except in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies and when the life of the pregnant person is in danger. Republicans attempted to remove these exceptions, but failed. Prior to the law, Indiana abortion providers reported treating patients coming from other states with existing abortion bans. That made international news when a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio received abortion care in Indiana. The law goes into effect Sept. 15. Read more |
| • | Since Roe: Unclear abortion laws in some states prompt ER doctors to call lawyers as pregnant people suffer. | | • | Abortion in the polls: Wisconsin's primary will hinge on how candidates have voted on abortion rights. | | • | Perspective: The NCAA displays its cowardice in staying silent on Indiana's near-total abortion ban. | |
 | | Abortion-rights protesters fill the Indiana Statehouse corridors outside legislative chambers as lawmakers vote to concur on a near-total abortion ban. | | Arleigh Rodgers, AP | |
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Biden to visit flood-ravaged region in Kentucky |
| President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to travel to southeastern Kentucky on Monday to meet with families affected by flooding last month that ravaged the region. At least 37 people have died in what Gov. Andy Beshear called "one of the worst, most devastating flooding events in Kentucky's history." Houses were also swept away and school buildings ruined, with hundreds of residents losing their belongings and being displaced. The National Weather Service said Sunday that flooding remains a threat, warning of more thunderstorms through Thursday. Biden's visit comes one day after he ended his isolation, following consecutive negative coronavirus tests Saturday and Sunday. Read more |
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 | | Linda Engle Chaffins, 70, waits for a FEMA representative next to the highway in Perry County, Kentucky near Hazard on August 6, 2022. Thousands of Eastern Kentucky residents have lost their homes ater devastating rain storms have flooded the area over the past week. | | Michael Swensen, Getty Images | |
Gaza cease-fire continues after days of deadly violence |
| A cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants took effect late Sunday in a bid to end nearly three days of violence that killed dozens of Palestinians and disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis. The flare-up was the worst fighting between Israel and Gaza militant groups since Israel and Hamas fought an 11-day war last year, and adds to the destruction and misery that have plagued blockaded Gaza for years. Israeli strikes and militant rockets continued in the minutes leading up to the beginning of the truce, and Israel said it would "respond strongly" if the cease-fire was violated. Read more |
 | | A Palestinian child salvages a toy from the rubble of his house which was destroyed during the latest three days of conflict with Israel ahead of a truce, in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 8, 2022. | | SAID KHATIB, AFP via Getty Images | |
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Rescuers struggle to save Beluga whale in France's River Seine |
| French rescuers say time is running out for an emaciated, 13-foot Beluga whale that wandered into France's River Seine last week, swam upstream and resisted efforts to be guided back to sea. Authorities injected the all-white Beluga with vitamins Saturday in hopes of reviving its appetite and strength. The whale is swimming between two locks in a basin about 50 miles north of Paris. The Beluga was discovered in the river Aug. 2. Small boats failed to guide the whale back to the English Channel, about 100 miles downriver. Read more |
 | | A beluga whale swims up the River Seine near a lock in Courcelles-sur-Seine in western France on Aug. 5. | | JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP via Getty Images | |
📷 Photo of the day: Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts in Iceland just eight months after its last eruption 📷 |
| Tourists and spectators flocked to the scene as lava flowed from the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland on Sunday following an eruption that has been ongoing since Wednesday. |
| Click here to see more photos of the eruption. |
 | | Onlookers arrive to watch as lava flows from the volcano in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland on August 7, 2022. | | JEREMIE RICHARD, AFP via Getty Images | |
| Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY. Send her an email at NFallert@usatoday.com or follow along with her musings on Twitter. Support journalism like this – subscribe to USA TODAY here. |
| Associated Press contributed reporting. |
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