The News Roundup For August 29, 2025
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
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Summary
A federal grand jury in the nation’s capital this week declined to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer in Washington DC.
Emails between top Florida officials show that they expect the state’s newest immigration detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” to be emptied in the coming weeks. The White House is fighting a judge’s order to shut it down.
Israeli and U.S. officials met this week in Washington to discuss plans for post-war Gaza. This comes as the Israeli military expands the offensive in Gaza City and they come under fire for a “double-tap” bombing of a hospital.
In the war in Ukraine, both sides are attacking energy resources. In Europe, leaders sit down to try and negotiate peace in the region.
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| 0:15.5 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. |
| 0:18.9 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. The news is |
| 0:21.9 | constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. Stay up to |
| 0:27.1 | date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org |
| 0:32.4 | for all the latest. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:48.4 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd's Willick, and this is the News Roundup. |
| 0:55.5 | The CDC is in turmoil after the White House fired the agency's director and other top officials resigned over what they say is political interference and an abandonment of science, especially when it |
| 1:01.4 | comes to vaccines. Also, President Trump threatened to deploy the National Guard to the streets of |
| 1:06.4 | Chicago over strong objections from state and local officials there. |
| 1:15.9 | And the Trump administration tries to gain control over the Federal Reserve again. |
| 1:20.8 | Our guides to this week's news, Megan Scully, Congress editor at Bloomberg News. |
| 1:21.2 | Hi, Megan. |
| 1:22.4 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:25.4 | Arthur Delaney's at the table, senior reporter for Huff Post. |
| 1:26.4 | Nice to have you back, Arthur. |
| 1:27.1 | Great to be here. And joining us from a reporting trip in Chicago, Amanda Becker. She's Washington correspondent at the |
| 1:33.1 | 19th. Thanks for being with us. Amanda. Great to be here. All right, good to have you all. Sadly, |
| 1:38.4 | we start in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a shooter opened fire through the windows of a Catholic church on |
| 1:45.6 | Wednesday morning. Children were inside celebrating mass during the first week of the school year. |
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