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Gaza help drying up, student loan forgiveness paused, passport rankings & more

CNN 5 Things

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3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A humanitarian group says it’s running out of ways to help people in Gaza. We’ll tell you what you need to know about the halt to some student loan forgiveness. Columbia University is sanctioning students to restore funding. The man who admitted to killing four University of Idaho students is due to be sentenced. Plus, we’ll tell you which country has the most powerful passport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.1

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0:26.4

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0:31.2

Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Wednesday, July 23rd.

0:37.8

As a hunger crisis in Gaza spreads, humanitarian groups are running out of ways to help.

0:44.3

That's according to a spokesperson at the Norwegian Refugee Council, who tells CNN many displaced

0:50.1

people had fled to the city of Dea al-Bala and it had become an aid capital.

0:55.8

But he says Israel's new ground offensive there is now making aid distribution more difficult.

1:01.7

I hear from my colleagues who are themselves starving that now they have probably one meal

1:06.5

a day and that should be before bedtime so that their children don't go to bed with empty

1:12.5

stomachs. I heard yesterday also from a colleague about a pregnant woman who was carrying

1:17.2

a bag of flower when she was shot dead. Israel has repeatedly claimed that it's restricting

1:22.7

aid organizations from moving within the territory to stop Hamas from stealing supplies, but aid agencies

1:29.1

deny their ending up in Hamas' hands. Meanwhile, a U.S. official says special envoy,

1:34.4

Steve Whitkoff, will travel to Europe this week for conversations on a Gaza ceasefire, and a separate

1:40.6

source says Whitkoff will then visit Qatar for further talks. The Department of Education has paused some student loan forgiveness.

1:50.0

Here's CNN's Tammy Luby with what you need to know.

1:53.0

So, Joe, the U.S. Department of Education has halted the cancellation of student loans in income-based

1:58.0

repayment plans, prompting concern among borrowers that their loans

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