2026-10-01
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The Trump administration rolls out a program to lower drug prices in Medicare.
Plus, Europe's luxury carmakers want a piece of the U.S.
Gas guzzler SUV market.
And with falling test scores, the widespread use of Google's AI tools in American classrooms faces a backlash.
The kind of broad takeaway we're getting from talking to all these parents, teachers,
clinicians as well, counselors, is that these AI tools in the classroom have not.
Helped students learn and in fact have taken away from their abilities to learn.
It's Thursday, October 1st.
I'm Daniel Bach for The Wall Street Journal, filling in for Luke Vargas.
And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
President Trump has started sending $500 checks to nearly 1 million
health care policyholders just a month before the midterm elections.
The checks come with a signed letter touting the administration's record on lowering health care costs.
The payments are being drawn from surplus user fees collected
under the Affordable Care Act and come as the Trump administration is rolling out a new Medicare program