Defense Bill Amendments, Threads Strategy, Guatemala Chaos

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

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GOP lawmakers want to amend the defense authorization bill. Social media newcomer Threads seeks to downgrade news and politics on its platform. And Guatemala's presidential election faces more chaos.

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0:00.0	House Republicans were supposed to vote on military funding, but somewhat the bill to restrict
0:06.7	abortion and transgender health care.
0:08.5	We're going to lose seats, we're going to lose races because of this.
0:11.7	So what's the way out of the standoff?
0:13.2	I mean Martinez, that's Steve Innskeep and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.0	Guatemala is trying to elect a president, but a court throughout one of the final two
0:24.3	candidates, what's that mean for the stability of a region that many people flee to reach
0:29.0	the United States.
0:30.0	Also, can a competitor to Twitter succeed without the political combat that made Twitter
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