The News Roundup For May 5, 2023
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🗓️ 6 May 2023
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Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing surrounding Supreme Court ethics. Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly accepted more luxury gifts from a billionaire Republican donor that he failed to disclose.
On Thursday, Russia claimed that Ukraine tried to assassinate its president, Vladimir Putin, by attacking the Kremlin with a drone. According to Russian officials, no one was harmed. Ukraine has denied the allegations.
It will be a weekend of pomp and pageantry in the United Kingdom as Charles is officially crowned King on Saturday. The country has been gearing up all this week.
We discuss the week's biggest headlines 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. |
| 0:03.9 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:09.5 | For the very latest news tune into your public radio station and follow updates at npr.org. |
| 0:24.0 | This is the OneA podcast. I'm David Gura in for Jen White. It's time once again for the news roundup. |
| 0:30.0 | If you happen to be in the mood for a political fight, then this week you'd have been spoiled for choice. |
| 0:35.4 | Lawmakers in Washington turned up the heat on the behavior of some Supreme Court justices. |
| 0:40.1 | Republicans pushed back saying it's part of an effort to delegitimize the highest court in the land. |
| 0:46.3 | The president took a preemptive step to contain what happens next week on the US-Mexico border when title 42 expires |
| 0:53.2 | and big text leaders try and calm fears about artificial intelligence. |
| 0:58.0 | With us this week, our Benji Sarlan, Washington Bureau Chief at SEMF4, Zoe Clark, |
| 1:02.2 | political director at Michigan Radio and co-host of It's Just Politics, and Ft. Oli Bendavid, |
| 1:07.5 | an editor at The Washington Post. Welcome to all of you. Good to be here. |
| 1:10.8 | Thanks for having us. Well, guest host Farangaday, we're going to start with the one story that's |
| 1:14.4 | been taking up all of my time this weekend, is refusing to go away. And that's regulators, |
| 1:19.1 | seizing First Republic Bank early Monday, the wee hours of the morning, making it the second |
| 1:23.6 | largest bank failure in US history. It's deposits. Most of its assets sold to JP Morgan Chase, |
| 1:29.2 | the sale raising questions about the overall health of the US banking system. |
| 1:33.5 | Now Ft. Oli, let me start with you. What impact have we seen from that failure on the rest of the |
| 1:37.7 | banking system so far? Well, you're certainly seeing other kind of mid-size regional banks trying to |
| 1:42.8 | reassure their depositors and regulators that they're doing just fine. I think most economists don't |
| 1:47.8 | think that this is the beginning of some widespread collapse of the American banking system. |
| 1:52.0 | You don't want to generalize too much, but the banks that have gotten into trouble are ones that |
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