Special Episode: Top News Stories of 2018 - Wednesday, December 26th, 2018
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today we have a special episode for you on this Wednesday, December 26th, 2018!
Instead of our typical roundup of the day's news in less than 10 minutes, we're using this holiday week to refresh our memories about some of the top and most popular news stories of 2018!
We're talking about everything from the historic North Korea meeting to the historic jackpots and everything in between.
Find links and sources to the past stories in today's show notes at https://www.theNewsWorthy.com (just click Episodes).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:05.7 | I hope you're having a great holiday week and though you usually get all the days |
| 0:09.5 | news in less than 10 minutes from me, today I thought it would be fun to look back at the news from the entire |
| 0:15.0 | year of 2018. Some of the biggest US stories we covered, the ones that will go down in history, |
| 0:21.6 | and then just some of the most popular and ones that are a bit more fun. |
| 0:25.2 | I've got 10 of them for you so I hope you'll join me for this special episode, A Fast Fair |
| 0:29.8 | and Fun Year in Review. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. Today is Wednesday, December 26. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:40.0 | All right, let's kick things off with a pretty recent and history-making news story, the midterm |
| 0:45.4 | elections. |
| 0:46.4 | Google says this was the fourth most search for a news story of the year. |
| 0:50.6 | So we now know the Republicans strengthened their majority in the Senate while |
| 0:54.0 | Democrats took over the majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in |
| 0:57.4 | eight years by the way. There were also historic wins, a record number of |
| 1:01.5 | women were elected to Congress and many newly elected |
| 1:04.3 | officials who made history like the first two Muslim women ever elected to the |
| 1:08.4 | House. All the new members of Congress will be sworn in on January 3rd, 2019. |
| 1:13.8 | And the big question is, will Congress find a way to compromise? |
| 1:17.2 | Because remember, to pass a law, both the Senate and the House, |
| 1:20.8 | who will be run by different parties in the new year, have to agree. |
| 1:24.6 | So stay tuned. |
| 1:28.4 | Another history-making news story of 2018 was everything surrounding Brett Kavanaugh. |
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