NPR News: 12-27-2024 6AM EST
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| 0:00.0 | The Indicator is a podcast where Daily Economic News is about what matters to you. |
| 0:04.5 | Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation. |
| 0:06.6 | So as a new administration promises action on the cost of living, taxes, and home prices, |
| 0:11.3 | the S&P 500 biggest post-election day spike ever, follow all the big changes and what they mean for you. |
| 0:17.1 | Make America affordable again. |
| 0:20.4 | Listen to The Indicator, the Daily Economics podcast from NPR. |
| 0:24.5 | Live from NPR News in Washington, on Kora of a Coleman, South Korea's parliament has impeached |
| 0:28.9 | Prime Minister Han Daksu, who is also serving as the country's acting president. Han has been |
| 0:34.1 | acting president for fewer than two weeks. That's because South Korean President |
| 0:37.8 | Yun Song Yal was also impeached and suspended from office. That was after his botched attempt to impose |
| 0:43.5 | martial law. The BBC's Gene McKinsey reports from Seoul. As the opposition party voted to impeach |
| 0:49.5 | Prime Minister Han using its sizable majority in parliament, MPs in the ruling party crowded around the Speaker of the House, shouting, angry with his decision to even let this vote go ahead. The opposition have decided to remove Mr Han after he refused to appoint the judges they'd chosen to oversee President Yun's impeachment trial. They argued Mr Han was protecting the president and was therefore not fit to run the country. |
| 1:15.6 | But his removal just deepened South Korea's political turmoil. |
| 1:19.4 | Decision-making here is gridlocked and the economy is suffering. |
| 1:22.7 | The BBC's Jean McKinsey reporting, South Korea's finance minister, |
| 1:26.8 | Choi Sang-Mok, has now been installed |
| 1:28.6 | as the country's new acting president and acting prime minister. A U.S. funded group that tracks |
| 1:34.5 | food security around the world has taken down its latest report on northern Gaza. The report |
| 1:39.5 | said a famine was unfolding there. But NPR's Michelle Kellerman tells us U.S. officials raised |
| 1:44.5 | doubts about the information. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network says its latest alert on |
| 1:50.2 | Gaza is under review and will be re-released with updated data and analysis in January. The alert |
| 1:57.3 | had warned of an impending famine in North Gaza, but U.S. officials say the group had |
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