The News Roundup For August 25, 2023
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🗓️ 25 August 2023
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Overseas, the head of the Wagner military group Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly died in a plane crash in Russia this week. In June, Prigozhin ordered his troops to march on Moscow in defiance of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military leaders.
In a big moment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's country, India landed a rover on the south pole of the moon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Nila. I'm your host for this edition of The News Roundup, just a quick heads up |
| 0:04.0 | before we start the show. The news is rapidly changing, and things may have changed by the |
| 0:08.4 | time you hear this episode. Stay up-to-date with news by listening to your local NPR member |
| 0:13.1 | station and visiting npr.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:18.4 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Nila Boudou from Axios today, and it's time for another |
| 0:30.6 | edition of The News Roundup. We knew it was coming. A mugshot taken in Georgia in scowl now seen |
| 0:37.0 | around the world. It isn't just that he wants to look menacing, which is certainly true, and he has |
| 0:41.5 | made that kind of face in photos for years and years and years. He doesn't want to look weak. |
| 0:46.7 | This week's Roundup starts in Atlanta, but we've also got important news to catch up on from |
| 0:51.2 | Milwaukee, Maui, and Jackson Hole in Wyoming. With us today for the Roundup is Benji Sarlan, |
| 0:56.9 | Washington Bureau Chief at SEMA4. Libby Casey, senior news anchor from the Washington Post's live |
| 1:02.0 | moments team. Libby covers politics and breaking events. And Idris Calune, Washington Bureau Chief |
| 1:07.5 | for the Economist. Thank you all for joining us today. Let's start in Atlanta. Last night during |
| 1:13.0 | prime time, Donald Trump was arrested at the Fulton County jail on felony charges in connections |
| 1:18.8 | with efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. In a first for his |
| 1:24.7 | four indictments this year, the former president had his mugshot taken, and it was released shortly |
| 1:29.8 | after he left the jail. Benji, can you just take us through what happened last night? |
| 1:34.8 | Well, this was the big moment, the bigger rest, Trump. And we now have a playbook almost for |
| 1:41.1 | what happens when Trump gets arrested in process, this being the fourth time. So he showed up to |
| 1:47.2 | the Fulton County jail. He was formerly booked. He was fingerprinted. He was released after posting a |
| 1:52.0 | $200,000 bond with the help of a local bail bond company. And then, of course, he had the famous |
| 1:59.5 | or infamous mugshot, which was released shortly after he left the jail. It was not clear at the time |
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