The News Roundup For April 18, 2025
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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Meanwhile, America's top diplomat says time is running out for US-led talks to find a path of peace in Ukraine.
Those remarks from Paris follow Russian airstrikes that killed dozens and injured more than 100 people in Sumy, Ukraine, mid-morning on Palm Sunday. It's the deadliest attack in the country's invasion this year.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said his country's troops will not leave established buffer zones in Gaza after the war ends.
And this week, the rebel group fighting the Sudanese army for power announced that it has formed its own government.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Johnny O'Hanson, Jr. join me each week on In Black America as we profile current and historically significant figures whose stories help illuminate life in Black America. You don't want to miss the conversation. KUT Radio in Black America are members of the NPR Network. Thanks for listening to In Black America. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of The News Roundup. |
| 0:23.4 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. The news is constantly changing and things |
| 0:28.6 | might have changed by the time you hear this episode. Stay up to date with the news by |
| 0:32.5 | listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:39.2 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:44.5 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd's Willick, and this is the News Roundup. |
| 0:55.6 | Kilmar Obrego-Garcia, |
| 1:02.3 | 29 years old, remains in prison in El Salvador. And the Trump administration is defying orders to help reverse his deportation and stop the deportations of more than 250 others to |
| 1:08.3 | El Salvador, mostly without due process. This week, a U.S. District |
| 1:12.9 | judge chastised the Department of Justice for not following hers and the Supreme Court's order |
| 1:18.4 | to facilitate the release of Kilmar, Obrigo Garcia. Judge Paul Asini said, quote, |
| 1:23.7 | there will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding in this case. |
| 1:28.7 | Senator Chris Van Holland, a Democrat of Maryland where Abrago Garcia has been living, |
| 1:33.2 | was living when he was taken and deported, |
| 1:35.8 | confirmed that he met with Arborgo Garcia in El Salvador this week |
| 1:40.0 | after initially being denied entry to the prison where he's being held. |
| 1:44.6 | The Democratic Senator has been pushing for Abrago Garcia's release. |
| 1:49.0 | It's been more than a month since the DOJ deported Abrago Garcia, |
| 1:53.1 | Salvadoran migrant, living legally in the United States, |
| 1:56.2 | to a maximum security facility and more than two weeks since the White House admitted in court |
| 2:02.1 | that it made a mistake when it deported him and imprisoned him in El Salvador. We'll start there |
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