The News Roundup For August 15, 2025
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
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He also called in the National Guard and ICE to patrol the streets. The Justice Department says last year violent crime in the District of Columbia hit a 30-year low.
Cuts to the social safety net are set to leave some 2.4 million Americans without access to the food stamps they were entitled to before the passage of the spending bill earlier this year.
And, in global news, Israel killed four journalists working for Al Jazeera in a targeted strike on the tent in which they were staying in Gaza. Also this week, Israeli soldiers shot 25 people seeking aid in Gaza as Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu claims he’ll “allow” Palestinians to leave during an upcoming offensive in the Strip.
A sit down takes place this week between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he will not exchange land for peace.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Consider This, President Trump and Vladimir Putin one-on-one. |
| 0:04.9 | We're here at their summit in Alaska to spell out what the president says about those talks |
| 0:10.5 | and what might actually happen next in Ukraine. |
| 0:13.7 | Also on the show this week, the U.S. is rewriting the rules on global trade. |
| 0:18.0 | What happens if other countries try that too? |
| 0:20.5 | You can listen each afternoon |
| 0:21.8 | to consider this from NPR. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, it's Nailie, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. Just a quick heads up before we start |
| 0:28.6 | the show. The news is rapidly changing. Things will have changed by the time you hear this |
| 0:33.9 | podcast. You can stay up to date with all the latest by listening to your local |
| 0:37.9 | NPR member station and visiting NPR.org. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Nailabudu, and you're listening to the News Roundup on the 1A podcast. |
| 0:52.6 | Get off our streets. Get off our streets. Get off our streets. Get off our streets. That's the sound of people taking |
| 1:00.5 | to the streets in the neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. this week, protesting President Trump's |
| 1:05.3 | federal takeover of the Capitol. According to the president, the city is experiencing a crime |
| 1:10.6 | and homelessness emergency. |
| 1:12.6 | He's deployed National Guard troops and ICE agents and sent bulldozers to take down homeless |
| 1:17.2 | encampments, and his administration says this approach could get more aggressive. |
| 1:22.0 | Over the course of the next month, the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue an arrest |
| 1:26.5 | every violent criminal in the district who breaks the law, undermines public safety, and endangers law-abiding Americans. |
| 1:34.5 | Crime is plummeting in D.C. That's according to the Metropolitan Police's own data. That trend is seen in many other cities Trump has threatened to take over too. So what's going on? Also this |
| 1:45.9 | week, the president's new revenue sharing agreement with major chipmakers and what makes it so |
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