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Summary
NPR News Now covers key midterm election developments, including a close South Carolina Senate race and a Texas contest, while analyzing how immigration enforcement is alienating Latino voters in Arizona. The report also details a new HHS policy allowing compounding pharmacies to produce banned peptides, a legal challenge to New York Attorney General Letitia James over a Cornell investigation, and a Wall Street selloff triggered by Alphabet’s disappointing earnings and massive AI spending.
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Midterm Senate races and South Carolina outlook
Analysis of the South Carolina Senate race
Texas AG race and Latino voters in Arizona
Impact of immigration enforcement on Latino voters
HHS allows compounding pharmacies to make peptides
FDA scientists oppose peptide policy change
Cornell gang rape investigation hearing
Challenges to NY AG Letitia James' neutrality
Alphabet earnings miss and AI spending concerns
AI sector competition and Anthropic IPO plans
Nasdaq decline and market reaction
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