Indian Railroad Failures, Newsrooms On Strike, GOP Election Denial Coalition

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A signal error appears to be the reason for the train crash that killed 275 people in India. Hundreds of journalists strike as their employer guts newsrooms across the country. GOP election deniers are pushing states to withdraw from a system that helps voter roll accuracy.

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0:00.0	India has been modernizing its rail network.
0:05.2	So how could it be that three trains collided killing hundreds of people?
0:09.1	We have an update on the disaster in a country where millions move by train.
0:13.0	I'm Michelle Martin, I'm here with Steve Innskeep and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.1	Hundreds of journalists in seven states walk off the job this week.
0:23.4	They work for Gnett a big chain and they say it's been years since they've seen Fair
0:27.0	Pay.
0:28.0	There are so many employees that some cities have no local reporters.
0:32.0	How will companies share holders respond?
0:33.7	Also, why did eight Republican-led states turn against an effort to clean up voter rolls?
0:39.0	Our investigation traces the movement to an activist network and a single story on
0:43.6	a conspiracy site.
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