The News Roundup for May 31, 2024

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

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Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all counts in his criminal hush money trial.

Israeli Defense Force missiles hit a camp of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday, igniting an inferno.

And a look at election results in India and South Africa.

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0:00.0	A former president found guilty while running for re-election for a story this big, one podcast is not enough.
0:06.8	Here at NPR we've got you covered from every angle.
0:09.2	You can get the news as it happens and legal analysis on the podcast Trump's trials for all the latest
0:14.4	on what it means for the 2024 election head on over to the NPR Politics
0:19.0	Podcast. Find Trump's trials and the NPR Politics Podcast
0:22.5	wherever you get your podcast. The only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken.
0:37.0	I'm Todd Zwillick here today along with Jen White for a special edition of the 1A News Roundup.
0:43.6	We're going to spend the domestic portion of the Roundup today
0:46.0	trying our best to digest the news that broke Thursday afternoon
0:50.0	from the most closely watched courthouse in the country.
0:53.3	Donald Trump is now the first former US president convicted of a crime.
0:57.4	His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 11th,
1:00.0	just days before the Republican National Convention.
1:02.8	A jury of his peers found the presumptive Republican presidential nominee guilty
1:07.8	on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to hide a conspiracy to cheat in the 2016 election. And we know that so
1:16.4	many of you have questions and we do too. So let's welcome our panel.
1:20.7	Neftale bin David is campaign editor for the Washington Post.
1:23.7	Neftali welcome. Thanks for having me. Also with us Wendy Benjaminson
1:27.4	Washington senior editor for Bloomberg News. Hey Wendy.
1:30.2	Thanks for having me back. Also with us in studio, Laura Barone Lopez, White House correspondent for PBS News Hour.
1:36.0	Laura, great to have you.
1:37.0	Good to be here.
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