The News Roundup For August 8, 2025
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
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Summary
A planned strategy meeting among top Trump administration officials whether to release the transcript from the Department of Justice interview with Ghislaine Maxwell was cancelled.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government considers a total takeover of the Gaza strip. The UN warns the move could risk "catastrophic consequences."
Trump administration special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of Donald Trump's Friday deadline for peace in Ukraine.
And Rwanda has agreed to accept 250 migrants from the United States becoming the latest nation to strike a deal to take in Trump administration deportees.
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| 0:12.0 | More information is at walton family foundation.org. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:21.5 | The news is constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:27.2 | Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org for all the latest. |
| 0:34.5 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:35.6 | Enjoy the latest. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. You're listening to the 1A |
| 0:45.1 | podcast. I'm Todd's Willick, and this is the News Roundup. Let's start today by looking back. |
| 0:51.7 | This week marked 60 years since the Voting Rights Act was signed in 1965. |
| 0:57.4 | It gave the federal government the power to ensure the rights of voters and to fight systemic |
| 1:02.7 | voter suppression, especially against black Americans. |
| 1:06.0 | If any county, anywhere in this nation, does not want federal intervention, it need only open its polling places to all of its people. |
| 1:20.3 | As President Lyndon Johnson there, since that signing and that speech, conservative courts have chipped away and blasted through the Voting Rights Act and |
| 1:29.0 | left it a shell of what it once was. Now, voting rights and threats to the principle of one person, |
| 1:35.6 | one vote, dominating the national conversation once again, this time with a redistricting fight that |
| 1:42.0 | started in Texas and is now spreading nationwide. |
| 1:45.4 | Texas Republicans are trying to push through a highly unusual plan to carve up districts |
| 1:51.1 | where Democrats win elections and give the GOP more power in the U.S. House. |
| 1:56.6 | The state's Democrats are trying to prevent all that and taking drastic measures to do it. |
| 2:01.4 | Dozens of Democratic legislatures fled Texas to keep a vote in the state house from moving |
| 2:06.9 | ahead. One vote makes a difference. And in Texas, they are trying to silence five Democratic |
| 2:14.1 | voices in the Congress of the United States of America. |
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