The News Roundup For October 28, 2022
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden is making last-minute trips around the country to bolster Democrats candidates, talking to constituents about inflation and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's plans for Congress.
Meanwhile, Russian courts upheld WNBA star Brittney Griner's sentence for traveling with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. She's been sentenced to nine years in prison.
On Sunday's Brazilian voters go to the polls to vote in a face-off between incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula.
We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The One A Podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Jen White. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the news roundup. |
| 0:13.2 | We're less than two weeks away from the midterms and a lot of you have already voted. |
| 0:17.8 | More than 35 states have started for early voting and more than 16 million people have already |
| 0:22.5 | cast their ballot. |
| 0:24.2 | So what could that mean for the results and for when we get them? |
| 0:27.2 | We'll get into it, but first some big news out of Silicon Valley. |
| 0:31.2 | After promising to buy Twitter, then backing out, then getting sued, Elon Musk came full |
| 0:36.6 | circle and actually purchased the social media giant. |
| 0:40.4 | What will it mean for the self-proclaimed free speech absolutist to have control of |
| 0:44.1 | the platform? |
| 0:45.1 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:46.2 | With us Anita Kumar, the senior editor of Standards and Ethics at Politico, Anita, |
| 0:50.8 | welcome back. |
| 0:51.8 | Great to be back with you. |
| 0:53.3 | So with us Laura Barron Lopez, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour. |
| 0:57.6 | Laura, thanks for being here. |
| 0:58.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:59.9 | And David Lightman. |
| 1:00.9 | He's the Chief Congressional correspondent with McClatchy newspapers. |
| 1:04.2 | David, it's always great to have you. |
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