The News Roundup For May 23, 2025

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

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After an early-morning vote to open debate, the House passed the Republican spending and tax bill this week. Now, it moves to the Senate.

Elsewhere in Washington, President Donald Trump welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for a meeting in the Oval Office where he lectured the visiting leader and made false claims about supposed persecution of white Afrikaner farmers.

Despite Gaza being on the edge of famine, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Forces launched a new offensive in the region that will supposedly bring the entire area under Israeli control.

In his first general audience, Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday called for aid to be allowed to enter Gaza.

The European Union is engaged in a war of words with Israel after the IDF fired warning shots at an E.U. diplomatic delegation visiting the city of Jenin.

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0:50.9	You're listening to the 1A. Podcast. I'm Naila Boodoo, and this is the News Roundup. Let's start here in D.C.
0:56.5	Yaron Lachinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, two Israeli embassy staff members who were shot dead here in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, as they were coming out of an event at the Capitol
1:01.6	Jewish Museum. Before we get to our panel in the rest of the week's news, we wanted to get the latest on
1:07.0	this story from Alex Coma, D.C. politics reporter for W.A.M.U. Earlier, he told us more about the
1:13.4	suspected shooter and what he's been charged with. So what we know right now is he's charged with
1:18.8	first-degree murder, as well as an assault on diplomatic officials, as well as a series of
1:23.4	federal firearms charges. Yesterday, United States Attorney for D.C., the new United States
1:29.1	Attorney for D.C., Jeanine Piro, said that she was also considering hate crime charges and
1:34.2	potentially terrorism charges, but she said that those were still very much up in the air.
1:39.3	I mean, what we can say here is that even though this is fundamentally something that would, you know, ordinarily be
1:45.8	handled by local police if there was not a political valence to this shooting, the federals have
1:51.7	really stepped in here in a very big way to make this their show.
1:55.5	I do want to get to the federal response at a moment, but the shooter did confess.
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