The News Roundup For October 7, 2025
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
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As the government shutdown continues, airports are struggling to run at maximum capacity. The Federal Aviation Administration is looking to cut 10 percent of flights at high traffic airports as they struggle with delays and staffing shortages.
The Supreme Court began hearing arguments over whether or not Donald Trump’s tariffs on America’s trading partners are legal.
Meanwhile, a top Israeli military lawyer was incarcerated this week after she leaked footage of Israeli soldiers allegedly sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner. Now, Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are working to combat what he calls the “most severe public relations attack that the state of Israel has experienced.”
U.S. officials are mulling possible regime change in Venezuela. The federal government’s operations in and around Caribbean and South American waters have intensified in recent weeks.
Donald Trump is also threatening to take action in Nigeria if the country’s government doesn’t take action to protect Christians within its borders.
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| 0:15.5 | Hey, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. |
| 0:18.9 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. The news is |
| 0:21.9 | constantly changing and things might have changed by the time you hear this episode. Stay up to |
| 0:27.1 | date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr.org |
| 0:32.4 | for all the latest. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:48.9 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Todd Zwillick, and this is the News Roundup. |
| 0:56.4 | New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change. |
| 0:59.7 | We sent a message to the whole world that in 2025 |
| 1:02.9 | Virginia chose pragmatism |
| 1:06.4 | over partisanship. |
| 1:10.7 | As the president is cutting snap, ripping away health care, over partisanship. |
| 1:19.3 | As the president is cutting snap, ripping away health care, terminating gateway, we here in New Jersey are bound to fight for a different future for our children. |
| 1:23.3 | Scenes from a very blue night on Tuesday in state and city races in Virginia, New Jersey, New York, California, and other places around America. |
| 1:32.8 | The off-year election brought a lot more people to the polls than usual with the issue of affordability as a central theme. |
| 1:40.5 | We're going to talk about that theme later in the hour. |
| 1:42.9 | But while Democrats celebrate, Congress remains at a stalemate, and the government shutdown |
| 1:47.0 | has now gone on for longer than ever before. |
| 1:50.4 | And as a result, flight cancellations and air traffic cutbacks across the country today, |
| 1:55.5 | a lot of government workers and contractors still going without pay. |
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