The News Roundup For June 5, 2026
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
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In light of its recent ruling concerning the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court once again cleared the way for Alabama to use its new Congressional map. This comes despite a three-judge panel has blocking the map in late May.
A convicted Jan. 6 rioter was hired at the Pentagon this week. Elias Irizarry will now work in one of the agency’s offices that handles highly-classified military information.
And, in global news, talks between Washington and Tehran are hanging by a thread. Now, Iranian officials say they have yet to deploy the full power of their military and they are prepared for any scenario, even a direct confrontation.
Ukrainian missiles hit the Russian city of St. Petersburg this week as Vladimir Putin’s premiere economic forum begins.
And during testimony on Capitol Hill, Marco Rubio told lawmakers that Greenland remains a part of Denmark “for now.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Todd, your host for this edition of The News Roundup. |
| 0:03.7 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:06.4 | The news is rapidly changing, and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:11.5 | Stay up to date with all of the latest by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you. NPR.org. I'm Todd's Willick, and it's the 1A Friday News Roundup. |
| 0:30.0 | Things haven't been going President Trump's way this week. |
| 0:34.5 | He did get a win overnight on a $70 billion immigration bill. But how can you tell |
| 0:40.8 | that things aren't going his way otherwise by the things that more and more congressional |
| 0:45.6 | Republicans are saying and how they're voting? In the GOP-controlled House, the scales on Iran |
| 0:51.6 | have tipped. For the first time, four Republicans joined Democrats and passed a |
| 0:56.6 | resolution blocking the president from continuing the war. And in the Senate, enough Republicans |
| 1:02.9 | voted to block Trump's billion dollar request for his ballroom. He cares about that. A lot. |
| 1:09.7 | Talks about it all the time. Meanwhile, enough Republicans |
| 1:12.9 | are lining up against Trump's $1.8 billion fund to reward his supporters with taxpayer money |
| 1:18.6 | that the DOJ has dropped the plan. At least for now, we're going to talk about all of that, |
| 1:24.3 | plus primary results from across America, a new pick for acting director |
| 1:28.8 | of national intelligence who the president says will promote his false campaign about rigged |
| 1:34.1 | elections. All that and a lot more. Arthur Delaney is here, senior reporter for HuffPost. Hi, Arthur. |
| 1:40.4 | Hi, Wendy Benjaminson is here, Washington Washington Senior Editor for Bloomberg News. Hi, Wendy. |
| 1:45.7 | Hi, nice to be back. And also in the studio, we got a full house today. |
| 1:49.8 | Elena Schneider, national political reporter for notice. Hi. Good morning. |
| 1:54.6 | Everybody's around the table. It's my favorite kind of roundup. Remember, we want to hear from you. |
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