NPR News: 05-22-2025 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Politics is a lot these days. I'm Sarah McCammon, a co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast, and I'll be the first to tell you what happens in Washington definitely demands some decoding. That's why our show makes politics as easy as possible to wrap your head around. Join us as we make politics, make sense, on the NPR Politics Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. |
| 0:29.4 | Authorities today raided the Chicago home of the man suspected of killing two people outside a Jewish museum in the nation's capital last night. |
| 0:37.3 | Police say the man chanted free Palestine as he was detained. killing two people outside a Jewish museum in the nation's capital last night. |
| 0:41.4 | Police say the man chanted Free Palestine as he was detained. |
| 0:46.2 | And Pierre-Sennifer Ludden reports the two people killed were a young couple about to become engaged. |
| 0:51.0 | Garon Lyshinsky and Sarah Milgram both worked at the Israeli embassy in D.C. |
| 0:56.5 | A friend of Milgrams, Ayelet Razin Bet-Or, says she started the job after Hamas attacked Israel a year and a half ago, determined to combat rising anti-Semitism. Not with violence |
| 1:03.3 | or shoutings or verbal abuse, but in diplomacy, with love, with intelligence. |
| 1:12.6 | Lyshinsky was an Israeli citizen and devout Christian. |
| 1:16.5 | The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. says he'd bought a ring and planned to propose to Milgram |
| 1:20.8 | during a trip to Jerusalem next week. |
| 1:23.2 | Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington. |
| 1:26.2 | The Swasek now faces federal murder charges and other charges. |
| 1:29.8 | Officials say the shooting is also being investigated as a possible hate crime. |
| 1:34.4 | The Senate has voted to undo the waiver that allows California to require zero-emission vehicles. |
| 1:40.0 | It's a controversial move in part because there's a debate over whether Congress is actually |
| 1:44.4 | following its own rules. NPR's Camilla Dominovsky explains the resolution now heads to President |
| 1:49.2 | Trump for his signature. The Biden EPA said California is allowed to require all new cars to be |
| 1:54.3 | zero emission by 2035. The oil industry has called that an assault on consumer choice. Big automakers |
| 2:00.0 | say it's unrealistic. |
| 2:01.7 | Environmental and public health groups say it would save lives through cleaner air and help slow climate |
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