Eclipse Day, Student Loan Debt, Gaza War At Six Months

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

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We've got everything you need to be ready for today's total solar eclipse. (Except for those glasses...you're on your own there!) The Biden administration is taking another crack at an issue it's struggled to get through the courts. And this weekend marked six months of the war in Gaza — with still no clarity on how it might end.

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0:00.0	A Martinez, did you miss me?
0:04.0	Hello, who is this?
0:06.0	My name is A, glad to meet you.
0:09.0	You know the funny thing about missing someone, Leela?
0:11.0	Is how much you missed me?
0:13.0	No, it's how can you miss someone unless they go away.
0:16.7	So you have to go away to be missed.
0:19.4	True, true.
0:21.1	Absent makes the heart real falter.
0:22.8	Yeah, I'm glad you bought that.
0:24.8	The big day is here and you won't be the only one staring at the sun.
0:31.6	I would really like to see the shadow approach us.
0:34.4	We've got everything you need to be ready for today's total solar eclipse
0:37.9	except for the glasses you're on your own there. I'm Lelefoldel that's A Martinez
0:41.6	and this is a first from NPR News.
0:46.5	The Supreme Court blocked President Biden's last student loan relief plan.
0:50.6	Now he's trying again.
0:52.2	Does this proposal have a better chance at surviving
0:54.8	legal battles? And this weekend marks six months of the war in Gaza and still no
0:59.5	clarity on how it might end. Any solution has to be led by capable people, by good leaders, which we don't have.
1:07.0	Stay with us, we've got all the news you need to start your day. Support for this podcast and the following message come from Wise, the app that makes
1:21.2	managing your money in different currencies easy.
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