The News Roundup For March 1, 2024
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
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Michigan sends a message. Could its primary shape US foreign policy between now and November?
Meanwhile, in Russia, thousands showed up to pay their respects to Alexei Navalny – despite the risk of arrest.
Gaza's Health Ministry says the number of people killed in the blockaded territory since October 7th has now surpassed 30,000.
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| 0:16.0 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Indira Lakshmanan and it's time for the news |
| 0:28.8 | roundup and boy do we have a lot of questions. What's the big takeaway from this week's split-screen |
| 0:34.8 | moment at the border and what does it tell us about the competing visions of |
| 0:38.8 | power that are at stake in the November elections? Also, the longest serving Senate leader is stepping down. |
| 0:45.0 | What will be Mitch McConnell's legacy? |
| 0:48.0 | And once more, Congress kicks the can down the road for funding the government. |
| 0:52.0 | It's deja vu all over again. With us this week, |
| 0:55.4 | Steve Clemens is the founding editor at large of Semaphore and host of the bottom line |
| 1:00.3 | at Al Jazeera English. Steve, great to have you here in the studio. |
| 1:03.7 | Great to be with you. |
| 1:04.8 | From the Associated Press, White House reporter Sungman Kim. |
| 1:07.9 | Great to have you back. |
| 1:09.2 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:10.6 | And Jordan Fabian, White House correspondent for Bloomberg, welcome Jordan. |
| 1:14.0 | Thanks, glad to be back. We're going to start with an exit. |
| 1:17.0 | Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday that he is stepping |
| 1:21.7 | down from party leadership at the end of the year, |
| 1:24.2 | though he says he will serve out his Senate term through 2026. McConnell is the longest serving |
| 1:30.4 | Senate leader in history, and he knows what it takes to stay in power. |
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