SCOOP: The Big Story With Too Little Coverage

SmartHERNews

Jenna Lee

News, Education

4.9 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We have the NEW data and a NEW record: 2023 now has the highest number of border "encounters" in the history of modern data collection.

While so many focus on the U.S. southern border, we tackle why the U.S. northern border matters too - and ask the key questions: Who does border patrol "encounter"? What do they encounter? And why does it matters?

We work through the data and fill in the blanks - including how many encounters include those screened for ties to terrorism.

Plus:

News you can use: "Children are three times more likely to be struck by a car on Halloween night than any other day of the year."
A look at the why the AP Stylebook avoids the term "terrorist" for Hamas and why this matters.
Why the United States voted against a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas at the United Nations.
A unique legal case vs. former President Trump, with an argument that takes us back to the Civil War.
What regional differences in candy preferences tell us about the state of America (or not!).

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna,
0:07.9	and this is Smarter News, and I'm so glad you're with us as we launched into a brand new week,
0:12.2	but also a brand new month this week, and look at several new chapters of stories we've been
0:17.7	covering over the last several weeks that are now reaching a turning
0:22.3	point or a different stage. And so I'm looking forward to giving you updates on these stories.
0:26.3	In the meantime, there's a brand new story with brand new data that no one has been talking
0:31.2	about, that we're going to spend some time on today. It's related to the U.S. border and not
0:36.4	just the southern border, the northern border,
0:37.9	too, which you will see is key to the story. And we're going to take a look at this brand new
0:42.6	data that we received because this story, this story remains a powerful story, regardless
0:48.7	if you're Democrat, Republican, wherever you live in the country, it has broad, wide sweeping implications, not only when it
0:56.7	comes to national security, humanitarian issues, the economy, but also politically. And one of the
1:02.9	other things we're going to be marking this week as we move into this new month is that we're going to be
1:06.6	exactly a year out from Election Day, 2024. It's hard to believe that, but that's where we're at.
1:12.0	So all of these topics, including what's happening at the border and are going to start ramping
1:16.8	up because of the political implications as that horizon comes closer to Election Day.
1:22.6	As we get into this new week, I would be remiss not to mention Halloween. I hope I'm catching
1:27.2	some of you before Halloween, maybe afterwards. be remiss not to mention Halloween. I hope I'm catching some of you
1:27.7	before Halloween, maybe afterwards. And I'm going to mention a serious Halloween topic at the
1:32.9	beginning of this broadcast. I really believe this isn't in a category of news you can use.
1:37.0	So I think it's important to mention it by I promise you. I have a fun, interesting Halloween
1:42.6	story to mention at the end that I'm very curious your thoughts on.
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