The Biggest News Stories Right Now - 10 Things You Need to Know

The Ten News, News For Curious Kids

Small But Mighty Media

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, News

4.4 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It's the end of the season and here are 10 Things You Need to Know before we break for the Summer with The Ten News! And listen in for a surprise visit from a very wicked actor.... 1. 💪 Trump vs. Musk 2. 📜 The Big Beautiful Bill 3. 📺 Funding for Public Media 4. 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month, DEI, and More 5. 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 6. 🔥 Los Angeles and ICE 7. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine-Russia Update 8. 🇮🇱Israel-Gaza Update 9. 🕹️ Big Tech News 10. 🍿 A "Wicked" Summer Movie List Thanks for a great season Ten'ers. Fill out the survey to let us know what you think about the season: SURVEY LINK

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0:00.0	Summer has arrived and is the end of season five.
0:05.0	Hold up.
0:06.4	Not break time yet.
0:08.0	We just got a review on Apple.
0:10.5	Ryan and Pam.
0:11.6	I am a huge fan of the podcast.
0:14.7	I listen to it daily and have learned so much thanks to y'all.
0:18.2	And I really hope that this review can get on the 10 new snaps.
0:22.8	I would love that. Also, I'm very interested in the political episodes that you do.
0:27.9	Please do more if you all have time, of course. That was from a tenor named Lazyest Tweet.
0:34.0	Well, we have gotten a bunch of messages asking us to explore more politics.
0:38.8	And for the tenors, we will always make time.
0:42.3	Given that this is our last ten things of the season and that the new cycle has been so
0:47.2	crowded, maybe we should do a catch-up about the biggest news stories happening right now.
0:52.7	You know, I'm always down to get down, because I'm Pamela Kirkland.
0:57.1	And I'm Ryan Willard. It's Thursday, June 12th.
0:59.6	And these are 10 things you need to know about the biggest news stories right now.
1:04.7	10. 9. 8, 7, 6. 5, 4, 3.0.1.
1:13.9	Okay, let's get ready to jump in.
1:18.1	To give you a preview, I'm going to say the 10 things we're going to cover in 10 seconds.
1:24.4	Ready? Go. Trump and Musk. Big Beautiful Bill. PBS and NPR. Pride and DEI. Meta AI. Ice in-I-Russia, Gazian-Israel, video games and movies.
1:30.9	Wow, that was impressive.
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