The News Roundup For July 25, 2025
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🗓️ 26 July 2025
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Meanwhile, the European Union and at least 28 governments are criticizing Israel for "drip feeding" Palestinians in Gaza, as starvation grows worse in the Strip. More than 110 people have now died from hunger.
Reports indicate that Russian officials have involved teenagers as they test and deploy drones into Ukraine. Daily drone warfare has increased, as Russian president Putin inches towards a deadline imposed by President Trump to end the fighting.
The Trump administration withdraws the U.S. from UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, just two years after rejoining.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been six months of the Trump administration and almost daily headlines about big policy changes. |
| 0:05.7 | This week, on Consider This, we're taking stock of what's really changed and what hasn't, from immigration to education. |
| 0:12.5 | And we're going to unpack the controversy around Trump's nominee to a powerful federal court and a possible shift in his approach to appointing judges. |
| 0:19.9 | Listen to Consider This on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. |
| 0:27.7 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:29.8 | The news is constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:35.5 | Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting NPR.org for all the latest. Thanks for |
| 0:43.2 | listening. Enjoy the show. You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd's Willick, and this is the News Roundup. |
| 0:57.8 | It's the story that won't stop haunting Donald Trump. |
| 1:02.7 | It's got to be like those zombies in the walking dead. Every time you think you've killed it, |
| 1:07.0 | another one's just going to come running out of the closet after you. |
| 1:09.6 | Republican Senator Tom Tillis, they're part of a chorus of GOP lawmakers |
| 1:13.6 | calling for the Trump administration to release, yes, the Epstein files. |
| 1:18.9 | He and others warned that failing to do so could plague his party long into the future. |
| 1:24.4 | This week, we got more bombshells, like the revelation that Attorney General Pam |
| 1:28.9 | Bondi told President Trump back in May that his name, indeed, does appear in the Epstein files. |
| 1:35.5 | As recently as last week, Trump denied that, and since then, he's been blaming it all on Barack |
| 1:41.2 | Obama. But there's lots more to get to this hour as well, like the widening crackdown |
| 1:45.9 | on higher education, changes at the EPA and FEMA, and a chance to step back and look at the first |
| 1:52.1 | six months of the Trump administration. It's a full house around the table here at WAMU in |
| 1:58.4 | Washington, D.C. Alana Shore is here, senior Washington editor for Semaphore. Hi, Alana. Hey, there. Great to be here. Taylor Popolars is here, national political reporter based at the White House for Spectrum News. Hi, Taylor. Hey, there. Good to be back. And next to Taylor, Steve Clements, editor at large for the national interest. Hi, Steve. Wait to be with you. All right, gang. Democrats and some |
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