NPR News: 10-20-2023 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

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NPR News: 10-20-2023 7PM EDT

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0:00.0	Discover a social media empire on a mission to reconstruct America using guns and Facebook.
0:06.9	Welcome to No Compromise, podcast winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.
0:13.6	Go behind the hot button issues in the national debate and listen to the No Compromise podcast
0:19.2	from NPR.
0:21.2	Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
0:25.9	The White House is applauding the release of two Americans who were taken hostage by Hamas
0:32.3	nearly two weeks ago.
0:34.5	NPR's Michelle Kelliman reports the Biden administration says it's still working to
0:38.9	find 10 other Americans who remain unaccounted for in the Gaza Strip.
0:44.8	Israeli officials identified the two as Judith and Natalie Ranan, a mother and teenage
0:49.5	daughter who are from a suburb of Chicago.
0:52.5	They were visiting family Attica Boots near Israel's border with Gaza when they were
0:56.6	taken hostage by Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed their release.
1:02.1	But there are still 10 additional Americans who remain unaccounted for in this conflict.
1:08.3	We know that some of them are being held hostage by Hamas, along with an estimated 200 other
1:13.2	hostages held in Gaza.
1:16.1	Blinken is thanking Qatar for helping to free the two Americans, but he didn't go into
1:20.3	details of the diplomacy.
1:22.4	Michelle Kelliman and P.R. News, the State Department.
1:25.7	A number of House Republicans are scrambling to toss their hats in the ring to become the
1:31.4	next speaker of the House.
1:33.7	NPR's Deja Walsh reports it appears to be back to the drawing board.
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