NPR News: 08-02-2025 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 2 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
| 0:10.7 | Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
| 0:17.5 | We get behind the headlines. We get to the truth. |
| 0:22.9 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. As part of his trip to Israel, U.S. Middle East |
| 0:31.0 | envoy Steve Whitkoff met with the family members of hostages still in Gaza. He said in a statement |
| 0:37.1 | after the meeting that he was committed to bringing all 50 remaining hostages still in Gaza. He said in a statement after the meeting that he was committed |
| 0:39.1 | to bringing all 50 remaining hostages, living and deceased, back to Israel. And here's Emily Fang |
| 0:45.2 | met with some of the families afterward. The hostages families chanted, you are not alone, |
| 0:52.9 | we are with you. And they held pictures of their loved ones after meeting with Koff. |
| 0:57.0 | Here's Ruby Henn, the father of Ithai Chen, an Israeli soldier in one of two remaining U.S. citizens held in Gaza. |
| 1:03.4 | Just listening to each family member what he has to say and hear their pain and make it personal. |
| 1:09.5 | And I think that by itself is commendable. |
| 1:12.8 | The Israeli government believes both Americans are no longer alive. Hen and other families are |
| 1:17.5 | pushing for an immediate ceasefire with Hamas so the approximately 20 hostages still believe to be |
| 1:23.1 | alive can come home, along with the remains of Hensun and other hostages who've died in captivity. |
| 1:30.3 | Emily Fang and Pier News, Tel Aviv. |
| 1:32.4 | A bill that would dramatically redraw Texas's congressional maps has advanced in the GOP-led Texas House of Representatives. |
| 1:41.4 | Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider has more. |
| 1:44.8 | The map legislation passed the redistricting committee on a party line vote. |
| 1:48.6 | That followed a day of testimony in which those opposing the measure outnumbered |
| 1:52.8 | supporters 100 to 1, appoint Democratic State Representative John Rosenthal made. |
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