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The News Roundup For August 16, 2024

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The Trump campaign confirms it's been hacked.

July's Consumer Price Index showed that annual inflation dipped below 3 percent for the first time since 2021. Experts say this puts the Federal Reserve firmly on track to cut interest rates at its meeting next month.

Meanwhile, two military groups are at war in Sudan, each trying to take control of the country.

Ukraine deals a major counterblow when its military launches a surprise attack into Russia.

And the World Health Organization declares mpox a global health emergency. Mpox was first identified in humans in 1970.

We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.

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0:00.0

This election season you can expect to hear a lot of news, some of it meaningful, much of it not.

0:05.8

Give the Up First Podcast 15 minutes, sometimes a little less,

0:09.6

and we'll help you sort it out what's going on around the world and at home.

0:13.4

Three stories, 15 minutes, up first every day.

0:17.0

Listen every morning, wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Todd Zwillik. You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the

0:31.7

story and it's time for our weekly news roundup

0:34.3

it's been a packed week of news we're watching a developing story about possible

0:39.2

cyber attacks by Iran targeting both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns.

0:44.6

It's the second week of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor

0:50.1

Tim Waltz campaigning side by side. How are they fairing? And Monday marked the

0:55.0

return of former President Donald Trump to the social media platform X

0:58.7

formerly known as Twitter. We're going to talk about that and a lot more. Let's welcome our expert panel.

1:04.4

Zoe Clark is here, political director at Michigan Public, where she's following elections and

1:09.0

policy debates in one of the swingiest of all the swing states.

1:12.8

Hi Zoe.

1:13.5

The swingiest of swing states.

1:15.2

So swinging.

1:16.0

So swinging.

1:17.0

Arthur Delaney is here.

1:19.4

You know, I mean, Senior reporter at Huffpost.

1:21.6

Arthur, thanks for being here.

1:23.0

Great to be here.

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