The News Roundup For November 1, 2024
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
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House Speaker Mike Johnson took aim at the Affordable Care Act this week, promising massive reform to the law at an event in Pennsylvania should Trump emerge victorious from the election.
Meanwhile, despite multiple warnings from the United States, aid to Gaza has fallen to its lowest level since the beginning of Israel's campaign against Hamas, intensifying the humanitarian crisis in the region.
The Pentagon said this week that North Korea sent 10,000 soldiers to Russia that are likely meant to reinforce Russian troops as the latter army continues its invasion of Ukraine.
Georgia's prime minister is taking a victory lap following a supposed "landslide" election result. Irakli Kobakhidze, however, also took time to reject allegations of vote-rigging and violence in an interview with the BBC.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're black or brown or a person of color, you know that stories about race in the news can sometimes feel like they're made for a different audience. |
| 0:10.8 | At Code Switch, we're not about that. |
| 0:13.0 | We're interested in how race and identities shape your world in real and sometimes funny ways. |
| 0:19.3 | Come work it out with us together on the Code Switch podcast from NPR. |
| 0:24.2 | Hey, it's Naila. I'm your host for this edition of the News Roundup. Just a quick heads up before we start |
| 0:28.6 | the show. The news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this |
| 0:33.2 | episode. Stay up to date with news by listening to your local NPR member station and visiting |
| 0:38.3 | NPR.org for all the latest. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:46.3 | It's the News Roundup and I'm Naila Boodoo. We know politics can be a dirty business. |
| 0:54.4 | And this week, things got real dirty. |
| 0:56.3 | Just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage. |
| 1:00.0 | I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for. |
| 1:05.6 | And I have to begin by saying 250 million Americans are not garbage. |
| 1:14.1 | This close to Election Day, we've got a ton to get to, and a fabulous panel who don't talk trash. |
| 1:20.1 | With us from Washington, D.C. is Anita Kumar, senior managing editor at Politico. |
| 1:24.6 | Anita, always great to have you. |
| 1:26.3 | Great to be back. |
| 1:29.1 | In studio with me, Megan Scully, Congress editor at Bloombergico. Anita, always great to have you. Great to be back. In studio with me, Megan Scully, |
| 1:34.6 | Congress editor at Bloomberg News. Megan, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Also here in D.C. Taylor Poplar's, Washington correspondent for Spectrum News, fresh from Allentown, |
| 1:39.7 | Pennsylvania. Hi, Taylor. Great to be back. What a week. It started with a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, which the New York Times dubbed a carnival of racist insults and grievances. |
| 1:52.5 | It was at this event where a comic dismissed Puerto Rico as, quote, a floating island of garbage. |
| 1:58.7 | And that kicked off a series of responses that ended with the former |
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