NPR News: 08-22-2025 6AM EDT
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News, I'm Korva Coleman. |
| 0:03.6 | A UN-backed panel of experts on starvation has declared that Northern Gaza is now suffering from a full-blown famine. |
| 0:10.7 | The panel says half a million people there are facing, quote, catastrophic conditions. |
| 0:15.7 | As NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Tel Aviv, this comes after almost two years of war and Israeli restrictions |
| 0:21.9 | on relief aid entering the devastated territory. The report by the Integrated Food Security |
| 0:27.2 | Phase classification, or IPC, says half a million people in Gaza are facing the most severe |
| 0:33.0 | level of hunger crisis, characterized by starvation, destitution, and death. It also warns that another |
| 0:39.4 | million people, about half the population of Gaza, are facing severe food deprivation, and that |
| 0:45.2 | more than 130,000 children under the age of five are at risk of death from acute malnutrition |
| 0:50.8 | in the coming year. The IPC does not assign blame. Israel has denied there's a |
| 0:56.3 | hunger crisis in Gaza and has restricted food and medicine going into Gaza, saying Hamas steals them |
| 1:02.1 | and uses them for its own purposes. Jackie Northam, NPR News, Tel Aviv. California state lawmakers |
| 1:08.8 | have passed a measure that would create a method to |
| 1:11.6 | redraw the state's congressional districts. The goal is to flip five Republican congressional |
| 1:17.4 | districts to Democratic control and send the Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| 1:22.8 | California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the measure. He says California is responding to Texas |
| 1:28.9 | Republicans who are trying to flip five congressional seats in that state to GOP control. |
| 1:34.6 | Open your eyes to what is going on in the United States of America in 2025. That's what this is about. |
| 1:47.0 | We're responding what occurred in Texas. Texas state senators are considering a similar effort. They haven't yet passed their GOP |
| 1:53.1 | redistricting plan, but they are expected to do so very soon. Hurricane Aaron is pulling deeper |
| 2:00.0 | into the Atlantic Ocean and away from North America. |
| 2:03.4 | It never made landfall. But NPR's Matt Bloom reports officials on the East Coast are still warning |
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