NPR News: 01-03-2025 6PM EST
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| 0:00.0 | What's in store for the music, TV, and film industries for 2025? We don't know, but we're making some fun, bold predictions for the new year. Listen now to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. |
| 0:14.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The newly Republican-controlled Senate has elected its first |
| 0:22.9 | new party leader in nearly 20 years. Amperous Claudio Grisales reports. South Dakota |
| 0:27.7 | GOP Senator John Thune was overwhelmingly supported by his colleagues. Congress began a new term today, |
| 0:33.6 | the first step in shifting full control in Washington to the GOP. |
| 0:38.6 | In the Senate, newly elected majority leader, John Thune, is the GOP's first new leader in the upper chamber since 2007. |
| 0:46.3 | That year, his predecessor, Mitch McConnell, took over as Republican leader stepping down from that role this year. |
| 0:54.6 | Thune, the former longtime Senate Republican Whip, is considered a moderating voice in the party |
| 1:01.0 | and has been on the other side of debates from President-elect Donald Trump numerous times. |
| 1:06.1 | However, Thune endorsed Trump late in the presidential race last year and has become a growing ally to the incoming president. |
| 1:14.6 | Claude Dissales, NPR News. |
| 1:16.8 | New York Judge Juan Mershan said today he'll sentence President-elect Donald Trump January 10th, just days before his inauguration. |
| 1:24.2 | Earlier this year, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records |
| 1:28.8 | in order to pay hush money to an adult film star. Trump's lawyers had argued the case should be |
| 1:33.4 | thrown out. Prosecutor suggested Mershondelet Trump's sentencing till after he leaves office. |
| 1:39.1 | Family and friends are mourning an 18-year-old college student killed in the New York's Day attack in New Orleans. |
| 1:43.6 | Brooke Thorrington, November station, W.R.KF. has more from Baton Rouge. |
| 1:47.6 | Kareem Badawi had just finished his first semester at the University of Alabama and was home for |
| 1:53.7 | winter break. His loss is devastating to his loved ones. |
| 1:59.7 | His cousin, Malik Badawiwi spent all of Wednesdays searching for him |
| 2:04.3 | before they found out he was among the 14 people killed |
| 2:07.7 | and the attack on Bourbon Street. |
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