The News Roundup For May 30, 2025
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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Elon Musk isn't leaving Washington quietly. In an interview with CBS news Musk took aim at the tax bill making its way through Congress, saying it undermines the work he and DOGE undertook.
Israel's latest offensive in Gaza is drawing criticism from world leaders. This week officials in Germany, Italy, and Spain called for the Israeli military to cease its campaign against Palestinian civilians.
And King Charles opens his address to the Canadian parliament with comments on the nation's sovereignty saying "the true north is indeed strong and free."
We cover the week's most important stories during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Naila. I'm your host for this edition of the News Roundup. Just a quick heads-up before we start the show. The news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. Stay up to date with news by listening to your local NPR member station and visiting npr.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:27.1 | You're listening to the 1A. Podcast. I'm Nyla Boodoo, and this is the News Roundup. And where should we begin this |
| 0:31.3 | week? Very likely in court. The Trump administration is intensifying its crackdown |
| 0:36.6 | on foreign students coming to universities in the U.S. |
| 0:39.9 | Harvard is lawyering up over that, and the president wants to take away billions in federal funds from the university. |
| 0:47.0 | Meanwhile, the White House is furious at two separate court decisions to upend Donald Trump's ability to arbitrarily impose tariffs. |
| 0:55.7 | One senior advisor called the move a, quote, judicial coup. Our panel for a jam-packed week of news joined us earlier today. |
| 1:02.0 | Amanda Becker is Washington correspondent at the 19th. Hi, Amanda. Hi, great to be here. Eva McKend, |
| 1:07.7 | National Politics Correspondent for CNN. Eva, so great to see you. |
| 1:11.2 | Great to be with you. |
| 1:12.1 | And Sophia Kaya, White House Reporter for Politico and one of the authors of West Wing Playbook. |
| 1:17.0 | Welcome, Sophia. |
| 1:17.9 | Thanks, Naila. |
| 1:19.2 | Let's begin with a court in New York that until Thursday, most people had probably not heard of. |
| 1:24.7 | Three judges, one appointed by Reagan, one by Obama, and one by the current |
| 1:28.7 | president, blocked almost all of Donald Trump's tariffs. The U.S. Court of International |
| 1:34.0 | Trade throughout the tariffs he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. |
| 1:40.5 | The 1977 law can only be invoked when the U.S. faces a, quote, unusual and extraordinary threat to national security, foreign policy, or the economy. |
| 1:50.9 | Sophia, what else did the court say here? |
| 1:54.1 | Look, this was a three-paneled court that has essentially thrown a huge wrench in Trump's terrorist plan. |
| 2:02.1 | So, you know, on the day he dubbed Liberation Day, he issued a list of dozens of tariffs |
| 2:08.9 | to a number of countries that he's currently negotiating. |
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