Should The Gov’t Just Give You The Money? The Latest On The Government Shutdown, A Terror Investigation Spans Two States & A Major Announcement on Women’s Health
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
All the news you need this week:
- Happy Birthday, Marines! Your first meeting happened in … a tavern?
- The latest on the historic government shutdown.
- A new idea for subsidies - just give the money directly to citizens?
- The FDA makes a major decision on women’s health.
- What to know about a Supreme Court case (it involves a conversation over dreadlocks).
- A terror investigation spans two states, and remains ongoing.
- The origins of Veterans Day
Link To Full FDA Interview with Dr. Makary
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the Scoop on this week's news. |
| 0:04.6 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:14.8 | Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to Scoop. |
| 0:17.3 | It is November 10th, an important day in history, as I was reminded by our live |
| 0:23.3 | insiders who are joining us today, that it is the 250th birthday for the Marines. And actually, |
| 0:30.7 | while we get started here, and we're going to be talking a lot about what's going on in the |
| 0:33.7 | political atmosphere of the United States, we're going to be talking about compromise. |
| 0:38.2 | And it mixed in there is a question about political courage, isn't there? Or just courage in general |
| 0:42.8 | in so many of our stories, if we strip things away from all of the particulars and the details |
| 0:48.2 | and specifics, we get to real big themes. You know, what does it mean to be brave? What does it |
| 0:53.1 | mean to show your love? What does it mean to be patriotic? I'm not trying to be patronizing and saying this at all. It's just that when you strip away the stories at the core, there's usually a very basic question. You know, what does it look like to have courage in 2025? One of the reasons we could ask that question today in particular is a question about service |
| 1:12.9 | to your country in general. On this particular week, the question of courage will come up, |
| 1:17.8 | just as we're talking about not only what's currently happening in Washington, D.C., but we're |
| 1:22.5 | going to mark Veterans Day tomorrow on November 11th. We'll get to that towards the end of the show, |
| 1:26.8 | but today we're actually marking the end of the show. But today, |
| 1:27.7 | we're actually marking the beginning of the Marine Corps. And it's such a fascinating story because |
| 1:32.4 | you may not realize that the Marine Corps was born in 1775. So this is before the Declaration |
| 1:39.5 | of Independence, before we're drifting into the year that we're going to celebrate next year, |
| 1:43.4 | all about 1776. |
| 1:45.0 | 1775 was very, very important. |
| 1:47.0 | And so in 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Captain Samuel Nicholas set up the first Marine Corps |
| 1:54.2 | recruiting headquarters at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, looking for, and I quote, a few good men. |
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