The News Roundup For February 21, 2025

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

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Summary

Following the firings of a slew of employees at federal agencies responsible for things like fighting pandemics and taking care of nuclear weapons, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire key positions.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says that he and his Republican colleagues are moving forward with their plans for a budget, despite Trump endorsing a competing plan put forward by the House.

Meanwhile, European leaders gathered in Paris this week to discuss what the Trump administration's future relationship with the continent looks like.

And following weeks of a shaky ceasefire, Hamas has offered to return all of its hostages to Israel in return for a permanent truce.

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0:00.0	Technologist Powell Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories.
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0:12.2	We generated tens of images, and then she saw two images that was like, that was it.
0:18.2	Ideas about the future of memory.
0:20.6	That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.
0:24.3	Hey, it's Naila. I'm your host for this edition of the News Roundup.
0:27.2	Just a quick heads up before we start the show.
0:29.5	The news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode.
0:34.3	Stay up to date with news by listening to your local NPR member station and visiting
0:38.4	NPR.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
0:46.1	You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Naila Boodoo, and it's time for the news
0:53.4	round up. Has it felt like a long week Boodoo, and it's time for the news roundup.
0:58.7	Has it felt like a long week? Perhaps we can agree it's been a long month. The golden age of America begins right now.
1:04.4	President Trump's first month in office has exceeded the wildest dreams of some of his supporters
1:09.8	and the darkest nightmares of his
1:11.9	fiercest detractors. The zone, as it's become known, continues to be flooded. So as we do every
1:17.9	Friday, we're going to take a step back. Our mission isn't to try to cover everything that
1:22.1	happened this week, but focus on the stories that really matter and with us to help explain
1:26.8	why they matter. Taylor Popolars is
1:28.9	National Political Correspondent for Spectrum News at the White House. Hi, Taylor. Hey there. Great to be here.
1:34.4	Zoe Clark, political director at Michigan Public, co-host of It's Just Politics. Joining us from
1:38.5	Ann Arbor. Hi, Zoe. Hi, hi, Naila. And Jeff Mason. He's the White House correspondent at Reuters. Jeff, welcome back.
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