The News Roundup For May 20, 2022
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🗓️ 20 May 2022
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Summary
President Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo to visit a community devastated by a racist attack that claimed the lives of ten Black people at a supermarket.
Meanwhile, the United Nations is warning that Russia's invasion of Ukraine could cause a global food crisis. Global prices are rising, causing poorer nations to struggle to feed their citizens. Ukraine's ports, once major exporters of cooking oil and cereals, are closed — sparking concerns about the global food supply.
The former Somali president, a man relieved of his power in 2017, has been voted back into office by lawmakers in the country amid a lockdown in the capital of Mogadishu.
We cover all this and more during 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. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm Jen White and you're listening to the 1A podcast. |
| 0:37.6 | Throughout the pandemic, the Washington National Cathedral has rung its bell to memorialize |
| 0:42.4 | the lives lost to COVID-19. The Cathedral held its final bell ceremony to mark a milestone. |
| 0:48.7 | 1 million people nationwide have died from coronavirus. That's higher than the US death toll from AIDS |
| 0:55.5 | and the 1918 flu. It is terrible, horrible to have that many people die of a transmissible disease. |
| 1:04.4 | In a two-year period, it is very sobering and very sad and tragic. |
| 1:09.3 | That was White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci speaking with NPR last week. |
| 1:15.4 | Around the country, most states have dropped COVID-19 restrictions and while Americans are eager |
| 1:21.2 | to move on from the pandemic, new variants keep cropping up and infections are on the rise. |
| 1:26.8 | We'll get into the latest pandemic news, plus last week's mass shootings in Buffalo and Laguna Woods, |
| 1:32.5 | and a flock of primary races with a few surprises. Here with us to break it all down, |
| 1:37.1 | is Cheryl Gastelberg. She's a Washington correspondent for The New York Times. |
| 1:41.1 | Cheryl, welcome back. Thanks, great to be back, Jim. Also joining us is Eugene Scott. He's a national |
| 1:47.2 | political reporter for the Washington Post. Eugene, it's great to have you back. |
| 1:51.5 | Thanks for having me again. And Alexis Semindinger. She's a national correspondent for The Hill. |
| 1:56.8 | Alexis, welcome. Hey, good to talk to you. So as the US hits 1 million COVID deaths, |
| 2:03.3 | cases are surging nationwide and hospitalizations are on the rise. Cheryl, how much of an uptake |
| 2:08.8 | are we seeing and where? We're seeing cases rise really throughout the country. |
| 2:15.1 | And the CDC director warned this week that one third of Americans now live in areas where they |
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