The News Roundup For May 06, 2022
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
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Summary
The Federal Reserve implemented its first half-point interest rate rise since 2000.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked the U.N. to help evacuate the wounded from his country. Some 300 people were taken out of the contested city of Mariupol. Ukrainian fighters have pushed the Russian forces back from the city of Kharkiv.
The U.S. now says WNBA star Britney Griner is wrongfully detained in Russia after the player was held up by authorities as she tried to leave the country following its invasion of Ukraine.
We cover the most important news this week on the international portion of the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jen. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:03.8 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:09.0 | For the latest news tune into your public radio station and follow updates at npr.org. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the 1A podcast. I'm Naila Boudou of Axios Today in For Jen White and you're listening |
| 0:27.0 | to the news roundup from Des Moines to Dallas to Washington DC. |
| 0:42.4 | Thousands gathered in cities and towns across America to protest a Supreme Court draft |
| 0:46.8 | opinion that promises to wipe out Roe v Wade. It's the culmination of more than four decades of |
| 0:52.1 | Republican strategy. And while it's just a draft, experts say it's unlikely the justices will |
| 0:57.3 | substantially change their minds or their votes by the end of June. So what can Democratic lawmakers |
| 1:03.0 | and the president do about it and how will this affect voters during the midterms? Let's jump right |
| 1:07.9 | in. Mary Harris hosts the Slate Daily News podcast. What's next? Mary, welcome. |
| 1:12.1 | Hey, it's I let us be here. Even McKenna is a National Politics reporter for CNN. Hi, Eva. |
| 1:17.1 | Hi. Thanks for having me. And Shafali Luthrough is a health care reporter with the 19th Shafali |
| 1:21.9 | thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. For those who haven't gotten up to speed, |
| 1:26.4 | Shafali, can we just start with what's the highlights of this leak draft? Sure. So this comes from a |
| 1:32.0 | case known as Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization and the Supreme Court had been |
| 1:36.4 | asked to look at this abortion ban from Mississippi, which would have banned abortion 15 weeks onward. |
| 1:42.1 | Now this is well before what Roe v Wade guarantees, right? The promise from that decision was you |
| 1:46.9 | could have the right to an abortion up until a fetus is independently viable. It can live outside |
| 1:51.6 | the womb on its own, which happens usually around 22 to 25 weeks. So this was a direct challenge |
| 1:57.7 | to Roe v Wade and that's exactly how the court has treated it. And in this draft decision written |
| 2:02.8 | right by Justice Alito, they're very clear. They uphold the Mississippi law and they strike down |
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