The News Roundup For February 14, 2025

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

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Summary

The White House is moving ahead with its plan to significantly reduce the federal workforce.

Also this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr was confirmed as the Secretary for Health and Human Services in a 52-48 vote, even after several senators raised concerns about his record of an anti-vaccine activism.

And in global news, Donald Trump spent time on the phone with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and hopes negotiations to end the war will begin immediately.

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came under strain this week as Hamas announced that it would delay the release of three hostages in Gaza on Saturday in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel.

We discuss all this and more during the News Roundup.

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0:00.0	Donald Trump is back in the White House and making a lot of moves very quickly.
0:05.0	Keep track of everything going on in Washington with the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:09.6	Every day, we break down the latest news and explain why it matters to you.
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0:17.2	Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup.
0:20.5	Just a quick heads up before we start the show.
0:22.6	The news is constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode.
0:28.4	Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org for all the latest.
0:35.7	Thanks for listening.
0:36.8	Enjoy the show.
0:44.9	Music PR.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd's Willick, and it's time for the News Roundup.
0:50.4	Well, as rebukes go, this one was big. Last night, top federal prosecutor in New York and several senior federal prosecutors in Washington all resigned. Why? Because they refused to follow a Justice Department order to drop the corruption charges against the city's mayor, Eric Adams. Acting U.S. Attorney General Emil Beauvais ordered
1:12.1	prosecutors to drop those charges to help a political deal between the mayor and the Trump
1:17.9	administration. We're going to talk about the DOJ and those resignations, also the latest on mass
1:23.7	layoffs now underway for potentially hundreds of thousands of federal workers. So with us for
1:29.3	the Roundup three special guests on this Valentine's Day. Arthur Delaney, Huff Post Senior Reporter,
1:35.1	Arthur, great to see you. Happy Valentine's Day. And to you, Amanda Becker is here, Washington
1:40.1	correspondent at the 19th, familiar to all of you. Hi, Amanda. Great to be here. Great to have you.
1:46.1	And Naftali, Ben David, is with a senior national political correspondent at the Washington Post.
1:51.1	Naftali. Welcome back. Great to see you. Thanks so much for having me.
1:53.7	All right. Well, let's start with the ongoing purge of the federal workforce. The Trump administration has begun a mass firing of federal workers.
2:02.6	On Thursday, the Office of Personnel Management, OPM, otherwise known as the HR office of the federal government,
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