Venezuelans with TPS fear deportations and dozens hurt in Liverpool parade crash: Morning Rundown

Venezuelans with temporary protected status fear being deported after Supreme Court ruling. Car crash at Liverpool parade is not being investigated as an act of terrorism. And weight loss drugs get more affordable.

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A 10-year-old Venezuelan girl living in New York City with a special legal protection against deportation has repeatedly asked her mother the same question all week: “Mommy, what am I going to do if immigration comes?”

The girl, her two siblings and her parents are among the 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who have been living and working in the U.S. with temporary protected status, better known as TPS, for the past two years. But a one-page Supreme Court order issued last week gave President Donald Trump and his administration the green light to continue their efforts to end the protections granted to these Venezuelans in 2023 by then-President Joe Biden.

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“That makes you feel very depressed, anxious and distressed,” the mother of the little girl said in her native Spanish. “This is all terrible.”

NBC News spoke with the mother and two other Venezuelan TPS holders, one in North Carolina and one in Los Angeles, about navigating changing immigration policies. Read the full story.

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Car hits pedestrians at a soccer win parade in Liverpool

As thousands of people lined the streets to celebrate Liverpool’s English Premier League title win, a car collided with a number of pedestrians, police said Monday.

At least 27 people, including four children, were hospitalized for their injuries, officials said. Of those people, one adult and one child have serious injuries. Twenty more people were treated at the scene for minor injuries and additional patients have shown up at local hospitals.

A 53-year-old British man believed to have been the driver was detained on the scene and taken into custody. The crash is not being investigated as an act of terrorism.

Read the full story.

The cost of weight loss drugs is finally dropping

Weight loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, which both sell for a list price of more than $1,000 a month, have long been out of reach for people without insurance or whose insurance refused to cover them.

Over the past several months, however, drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have introduced lower-cost options. There are some caveats — people must pay out of pocket, or the medication is sold in a vial rather than a prefilled injector pen. And the financial barriers remain: $400 to $500 is a significant amount of money for many people.

“You’re talking $6,000 a year, and that is still probably more than insurers are paying right now” with discounts, said Dr. David Rind, a primary care physician and the chief medical officer for the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a group that determines fair prices for drugs.

“For all my complaining about the price, these are drugs that we should want to give to lots of people, but it’s been really hard to see how we can afford them.”

Read the full story.

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