The News Roundup For December 5, 2025
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The Trump administration has halted immigration applications from 19 countries. This comes after the shooting of two National Guard members by an Afghan national in Washington D.C.
The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against food manufacturers over ultra processed products. It’s the first of its kind and argues that cities and states have been burdened with treating the diseases the food causes.
Meanwhile, graphic depictions of at least two survivors being killed by a second U.S. military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat sparked outrage on Capitol Hill. This comes as tensions between Caracas and Washington reach a fever pitch.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro confirmed that he did speak with President Donald Trump in a phone call that he described as “cordial.”
An American delegation attended talks in Moscow, hoping to end the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to compromise during negotiations.
And the Israeli government announces it will reopen the Rafah border crossing, but only to for Palestinians to leave Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of The News Roundup. |
| 0:03.5 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:05.6 | The news is constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:11.3 | Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org for all the latest. |
| 0:18.6 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:19.7 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:28.1 | Music for all the latest. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd Zwillick, and this is the News Roundup. Pete Hegseth, |
| 0:35.6 | the defense secretary, under scrutiny again this week, after new revelations |
| 0:40.5 | about the U.S. striking boats in the Caribbean, seal Team 6 attacked a boat on September 2nd |
| 0:45.7 | that the Trump administration says, without providing evidence, was carrying illegal drugs. |
| 0:51.7 | The initial strike left two survivors clinging to the wreckage. Then the administration |
| 0:56.1 | ordered a second strike, killing those two. Legal experts, former officers, and lawmakers from |
| 1:02.0 | both parties warned the strike could constitute a war crime or if we're not really in a war with |
| 1:08.7 | people the administration says are drug traffickers, |
| 1:11.4 | it could be murder. |
| 1:13.4 | Heggseth says he wasn't in the room where it happened. |
| 1:17.0 | Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat. |
| 1:22.3 | He sunk the boat, sunk the boat, sunk the boat, and eliminated the threat. |
| 1:26.9 | We'll get into what we know, plus more news on |
| 1:29.3 | Hegset from a Pentagon investigation that says he could have endangered U.S. troops with the |
| 1:34.5 | signal chat detailing an imminent attack in Yemen back in March. All of that big immigration news this |
| 1:40.2 | week and a whole lot more with our panel. In the studio here with me, Arthur Delaney, senior reporter for Huff Post. Back again, hi, Arthur. Thank you for having me. Always great to have you. Eric Bezal-A-Mil is here, National Security Reporter at Politico. Good to see you again, Eric. Thanks for having me back. And over the line in Michigan, Zoe Clark, you know her political director and associate general manager |
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