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🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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0:00.0 | In today's other news, Russia and Ukraine traded drone and missile strikes. |
0:05.0 | A Ukrainian attack set a Russian oil depot ablaze. |
0:08.3 | Russia says more than 120 firefighters are fighting the fire |
0:11.7 | and that nearby Sochi airport temporarily suspended flights. |
0:16.2 | Meanwhile, a Russian missile hit a residential area in southern Ukraine, injuring seven people. |
0:21.9 | Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on X that Ukraine and Russia have agreed |
0:26.8 | to exchange 1,200 prisoners. |
0:29.3 | The news comes as Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies say they've uncovered a major bribery |
0:34.4 | scheme. |
0:34.8 | They say it involves a lawmaker and at least three other people |
0:38.3 | who were taking kickbacks on overpriced drone contracts. The Senate called it quit Saturday |
0:44.6 | night and left Washington for the summer without advancing dozens of President Donald Trump's |
0:49.2 | nominations. Republicans were working on a deal with Democrats to reverse some spending cuts |
0:54.1 | in exchange for approving a large trunch of the less controversial nominees. |
0:58.6 | Mr. Trump had been pressuring Republicans for weeks to cancel the August recess and keep working, |
1:03.8 | but he reversed course last night, posting on social media that Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could go to hell and telling Republicans |
1:11.7 | to go home. Republicans warn that when they come back, they may try to change the Senate's |
1:16.6 | rules to speed up confirmations. And an update to a story we've reported on, the Smithsonian has |
1:22.9 | clarified that the Trump administration did not ask them to remove mentions of the president's |
1:27.7 | impeachment history from an exhibit. Last month's removal of a label referring to Mr. Trump's |
1:32.9 | two impeachments from a display at the National Museum of American History prompted concerns |
1:38.0 | about the institution whitewashing U.S. history to appease the president. The museum says |
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