SCOOP: Tackling Tough News with a Touch of Light
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
An anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Bondi Beach, Australia, a shooting at a U.S. university, and the foiled terror plot in California - we work through the news to know after a busy weekend of breaking headlines.
00:00 Introduction and Overview
01:07 Today's Headlines: Terrorist Attack in Australia
02:03 Word of the Year: Slop
04:36 Special Guest: War correspondent (and Australia native) Holly McKay on Bondi Beach Attack
08:19 Gun Laws and Security in Australia
19:43 Acts of Bravery Amidst Tragedy
21:27 US Service Members Killed in Syria
23:36 The Ongoing Threat of ISIS
27:55 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
28:38 Understanding the Ongoing Threat of ISIS
29:29 Thwarted Terrorist Attack in California
32:03 Double Homicide in Los Angeles
37:03 Shooting at Brown University
45:33 Government Shutdown and Economic Updates
49:18 Heartwarming Stories to End On
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| 0:16.2 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. |
| 0:19.6 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:29.1 | Well, hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop. It is Monday, December 15th. I am so glad to see you as we're easing into the final weeks of 2025, 10 days out from Christmas. |
| 0:39.4 | And I see here that Tara really puts it well. She's joining us on our live chat with our |
| 0:44.6 | Scoop Insiders that support Smarter News. And she says this, the last 36 hours have been brutal. |
| 0:50.7 | We were talking about the news and our before show show. We have very little control, |
| 0:54.8 | obviously, over the headlines and what stories pop up for us. The best that we can do here at |
| 0:59.4 | Smarter News is try to make these headlines a little bit more approachable so we could wrap our |
| 1:03.8 | arms around even the tough stories and have clarity as to what transpired. I find that a little bit |
| 1:09.5 | of clarity, a little bit of decluttering makes these |
| 1:11.9 | news stories less stressful. But the constant inundation of images and video and all of the voices |
| 1:19.5 | around the variety of stories that we have as we ease on into this week can be very overwhelming. |
| 1:24.7 | So the goal for today is back to our roots, quick and concise, |
| 1:28.6 | nonpartisan news. This is our time where we're a little bit more long-winded than quick, |
| 1:32.8 | but sometimes the stories deserve that, and that's where we are today. We have a terrorist attack |
| 1:38.9 | in Australia. We have a shooting at a university here at home in the United States. We have breaking news from the |
| 1:46.5 | Department of Justice of a terror plot foiled here at home. We're going to get to it. It just |
| 1:52.8 | came out over an hour ago, and we have the latest for you on that. We have the unfortunate news |
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