News Roundup for March 11, 2022
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🗓️ 11 March 2022
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Summary
Governments and companies continue to put the financial squeeze on Russia as it continues to try and push deeper into Ukraine. President Joe Biden announced a ban on Russian oil imports this week. McDonald's announced it would close all 850 of its locations in the country.
Meanwhile, Russian and Ukrainian authorities sent to negotiate with one another failed to agree on the terms of a ceasefire. Russian troops have ramped up shelling against Ukrainian civilians, targeting their evacuation routes.
WNBA star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia on charges of drug smuggling. U.S. authorities have been quick to condemn her detention and Russian authorities are providing few details on her whereabouts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jen. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:03.8 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:09.0 | For the latest news tune into your public radio station and follow updates at npr.org. |
| 0:22.1 | You're listening to the One A Podcast. Let's jump into the news round up. |
| 0:25.6 | The war in Ukraine has entered its third full week and the U.S. is continuing to squeeze Russia's |
| 0:32.0 | economy. Several big companies and news organizations left Moscow this week either by choice or by force. |
| 0:39.0 | What does Russia's increasing isolation mean and is it helping Ukraine? We'll get into it, |
| 0:44.7 | but first we start on Capitol Hill. Congress passed its first major government spending bill |
| 0:49.6 | under the Biden administration once again narrowly avoiding a government shutdown. |
| 0:54.1 | Joining us is Joshua Meyer, a domestic security correspondent for USA Today. Josh, welcome. |
| 1:00.0 | Thanks for having me, Jen. Also with us, Cheryl Gay Stolberg, a Washington correspondent for the |
| 1:04.6 | New York Times. Cheryl, always great to have you on. Thanks, Jen. And Anita Kumar, the senior editor |
| 1:10.4 | of Standards and Ethics at Politico. Anita, thanks for joining us again. Great to be back. |
| 1:15.8 | So this spending package is the first major spending package Biden has ever gotten to sign. |
| 1:21.2 | Anita, any idea why this one managed to make it through a notoriously polarized Congress? |
| 1:27.1 | Eventually, one of them has to get through, right? So, you know, Congress needed to fund the government, |
| 1:32.8 | to keep the government funded and operating. But they had been working on this for months. |
| 1:39.6 | This isn't something, although it did happen this week, it's not something that just has been |
| 1:44.6 | worked on. It's been months of negotiations as Republicans and Democrats tried to come together. |
| 1:51.4 | What's interesting is that they did raise spending, right? They've increased spending both for |
| 1:55.5 | defense and non-defense. And of course, that's been one of the big sort of philosophical differences |
| 2:01.1 | here in what Republicans and Democrats wanted. And so that did include that. It did include aid |
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