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🗓️ 26 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:04.1 | The Supreme Court ruled President Trump can continue to freeze nearly $4 billion in foreign aid, |
| 0:10.1 | handing him another victory in a dispute over presidential power. |
| 0:13.5 | The administration sought an emergency appeal after a lower court ruled that Trump's action was likely illegal |
| 0:18.8 | and that only Congress could withhold the funding. |
| 0:21.8 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a defiant speech at the United Nations. |
| 0:26.5 | Despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war in Gaza, |
| 0:31.3 | he told world leaders that Israel must destroy Hamas. |
| 0:35.0 | We're not done yet. |
| 0:37.0 | The final elements, the final remnants of Hamas are hold up in Gaza City. |
| 0:43.3 | They vow to repeat the atrocities of October 7th again and again and again, no matter how |
| 0:51.0 | diminished their forces. |
| 0:53.4 | That is why Israel must finish the job. That is why we want to |
| 0:57.9 | do so as fast as possible. Delegates from multiple nations walked out of the General Assembly Hall as |
| 1:03.7 | Netanyahu began speaking. Responding to countries' recent decisions to recognize Palestinian statehood, |
| 1:09.8 | Netanyahu said it would encourage terrorism |
| 1:11.8 | against Jews. At the last minute, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
| 1:17.6 | rejected a United Nations declaration at the General Assembly. NPR's Gabriela Emmanuel |
| 1:22.8 | says the proposal offered a plan for combating chronic diseases. |
| 1:27.3 | The declaration lays out a roadmap |
| 1:29.0 | for preventing and controlling NCDs or non-communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes. The document |
| 1:36.3 | has widespread support from countries around the world. But when RFK Jr. took the mic, he said |
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