The News Roundup For July 26, 2024
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
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The Department of Justice is set to investigate why an Illinois sheriff's deputy killed a Black woman named Sonya Massey in her home, killing her via a fatal gunshot to the head.
Amid his country's continuing campaign to devastate Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress this week, framing his military's actions as a desperate battle for survival.
Meanwhile, Earth set two new heat records this week. Sunday and Monday saw the planet warm to its two highest temperatures on record since at least 1940.
The 2024 Summer Olympics are set to kick off with their opening ceremony on Friday in Paris.
We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule. |
| 0:07.0 | If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely |
| 0:15.0 | American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American |
| 0:19.8 | from Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, it's Naila, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. |
| 0:27.0 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:30.0 | The news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:34.9 | You can stay up to date with all the latest by listening to your local NPR member station or |
| 0:40.1 | visiting NPR.org. |
| 0:42.1 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:44.0 | You're listening to the one-a-podcast, I'm N Naila Boodoo of Axios and it's time for the news roundup. |
| 0:56.0 | Is it even possible to sum up this week? Well, that's what we're here to do, especially this hour. |
| 1:02.0 | So I've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch for a new generation. |
| 1:06.0 | And it is my great honor to have Joe Biden's endorsement in this race. |
| 1:10.0 | The vote for Kamala is a vote for four more years of dishonesty, incompetence, weakness, and |
| 1:16.4 | failure. |
| 1:17.4 | We call to say Michelle and I couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can |
| 1:21.9 | to get you through this election and into the Oval Office. |
| 1:25.2 | This time last week, President Biden insisted his name would be on the ballot in November. |
| 1:30.2 | Now we know it won't be. |
| 1:31.8 | Vice President Kamala Harris is all but a lock to take his place as the Democratic |
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