The News Roundup For July 7, 2023
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
More than 20 mass shootings occurred across the country this holiday week. At least 20 people were killed and more than 120 were injured in shootings in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Fort Worth.
Meanwhile, an Israeli Defense Force operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin left at least twelve Palestinians dead and more than one hundred and twenty injured.
Tuesday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth. The record for global temperature is one that scientists are predicting will be shattered many times in the coming years.
We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Nila. I'm your host for this edition of The News Roundup. |
| 0:02.8 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:05.0 | The news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:09.9 | Stay up to date with news by listening to your local NPR member station |
| 0:13.6 | and visiting npr.org for all the latest. |
| 0:16.2 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:25.6 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Nila Boudou of the Axios Today podcast |
| 0:29.6 | and it's time for another edition of The News Roundup. Let's dive right in. |
| 0:33.6 | As milestones go, the one we passed, not once, but twice this week isn't one we should be celebrating. |
| 0:40.0 | We're pushing our ecosystems and our climate into a different place than it's been for the |
| 0:47.1 | entirety of human civilization. And that is alarming. |
| 0:51.8 | Since we started keeping records, our planet has never been hotter. |
| 0:55.2 | The average global temperature for Tuesday and Wednesday came in at just under 63 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| 1:00.9 | And that followed a short-lived heat record sent on Monday. |
| 1:04.0 | Helping us keep things cool this week is even akin to CNN's National Politics Reporter. |
| 1:08.8 | Also with us as Ali Vitale, she covers politics and the race for 2024 for NBC News. |
| 1:14.0 | She's the author of Electable. Why America hasn't put a woman in the White House yet? |
| 1:19.0 | And Steve Clemens, Steve is the founding editor at Large for Semicore. |
| 1:22.4 | Thank you all for joining us today. |
| 1:24.4 | Let's start with a story that broke when most of us were paying little attention to the news. |
| 1:28.7 | In the hours before Tuesday's fireworks, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled the Biden |
| 1:33.2 | administration likely violated the First Amendment by pushing social media companies to censor |
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