The News Roundup For March 21, 2025
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
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Summary
Two federal judges have ordered tens of thousands of fired federal workers to be rehired in recent weeks, but the White House is moving to appeal the decision leading to more questions for and about the fates of federal workers.
Meanwhile, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed this week as Israel began airstrikes once again on the blockaded Strip.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spent 90 minutes on the phone this week discussing the war in Ukraine.
We cover all this and more during this week's News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot happens in Washington every day, from the White House to Capitol Hill and everywhere in between. |
| 0:06.2 | That's where we come in. On the NPR Politics Podcast, we keep you up to date on what happens inside Washington and what it means for you and your community. |
| 0:16.0 | The NPR Politics Podcast, listen wherever you listen. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey there, it's Asma, your host for this edition of The News Roundup. And just a quick |
| 0:24.6 | heads up before we start the show, the news is, of course, rapidly changing and things may |
| 0:29.7 | have changed by the time you hear this episode. You can stay up to date with all the |
| 0:33.7 | latest by listening to your local NPR member station and visiting npr.org. |
| 0:47.6 | You're listening to the 1A podcast, and I'm NPR's Asma Khalid. |
| 0:51.7 | This is the News Roundup, and welcome to another wild week of news. |
| 0:56.4 | We saw a rare rebuke from the Supreme Court over what is, what's not appropriate, plus the Commerce Secretary in murky ethical territory for urging TV viewers to buy Tesla stock. |
| 1:07.8 | Meanwhile, Elon Musk returns to his election playbook and offers voters cash if they |
| 1:12.5 | sign a petition. And then there is the fight among top Democrats spilling into public view. |
| 1:18.6 | As ever, our focus for the hour is on the signal, not the noise, and we have an all-star panel |
| 1:24.3 | here ready to do just that. With us in studio, Idris Kalloon, the Washington |
| 1:29.4 | Bureau Chief for the Economist. Idris, thanks so much for being here. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:33.2 | Josh Wingrove, White House Reporter with Bloomberg News. Josh, it is great to have you back. |
| 1:37.6 | Thank you. Great to see you as always. And Alana Shore, a senior Washington editor at Semaphore. Alana, great to have you with us. Great to be here. I'm so glad that we're all in studio. |
| 1:46.3 | It's great. |
| 1:46.5 | It's great conversation here. So let's begin with the mood in the Oval Office this week. |
| 1:51.8 | How best to describe it? Maybe try indignant. And much of it has been directed toward D.C. District Court Judge James Boseberg for temporarily blocking some deportations |
| 2:02.4 | determined by a rarely used law passed in the 1790s. On Saturday, Judge Boseberg ordered planes |
| 2:09.3 | carrying Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador to turn around, but the planes continued |
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