The News Roundup For January 3, 2025
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
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Summary
A truck plowed into crowds in the early hours of New Years Day in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring dozens more. The driver was killed following an exchange of fire with police.
Overseas, a South Korean court approved an arrest warrant for impeached and President Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law on the country in late 2024.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he believes the war his country is fighting to repel a Russian invasion will be over after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
World Health Organization officials are urging Israeli authorities to cease attacking medical facilities in Gaza.
We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | What's in store for the music, TV, and film industries for 2025? |
| 0:04.9 | We don't know, but we're making some fun, bold predictions for the new year. |
| 0:09.4 | Listen now to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. |
| 0:13.8 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of The News Roundup. |
| 0:17.5 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:19.6 | The news is constantly changing and |
| 0:22.3 | things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. Stay up to date with the news by |
| 0:26.6 | listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org for all the latest. Thanks for |
| 0:33.0 | listening. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:48.8 | You're listening to the OneA podcast. I'm Todd Zwillick, and this is the first news roundup of 2025. |
| 0:53.1 | It is a new year, but not a happy one. |
| 0:57.6 | Mere hours before the attack, he posted videos on social media, |
| 1:03.1 | indicating that he was inspired by ISIS, expression of desire to kill. |
| 1:08.5 | President Joe Biden addressed the nation from Camp David hours after a man drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early on |
| 1:12.3 | Wednesday morning. The driver killed 14 people, and the FBI says it's investigating the attack |
| 1:18.1 | as an act of terrorism. And in Las Vegas, police continue to piece together the events that led up to a |
| 1:25.5 | cyber truck exploding outside of a Trump hotel on New Year's |
| 1:29.7 | Day. That's where we will start on this first roundup of 2025. But we have lots more to talk |
| 1:36.0 | about as well. And who better to help us break it all down? Some voices that are familiar to you |
| 1:41.3 | if you've listened to the roundup in past years before this 2025 with us |
| 1:45.9 | from Washington, D.C. is Anita Kumar, senior managing editor at Politico. Good to see you, Anita. |
| 1:51.7 | Great to be back. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you. In the studio with me, Margaret Tala. |
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