Thursday, April 25, 2024
The 7
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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Thursday briefing: Arizona election charges; Supreme Court abortion case; Columbia University protests; NFL draft; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Allies of Donald Trump were charged in an election interference case. |
| 0:08.0 | More protesters were arrested on college campuses. |
| 0:12.0 | And the next time your flight is canceled, you might get an automatic refund. |
| 0:16.4 | That's some of what we'll get to on the Seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:20.8 | It's Thursday, April 25th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:27.0 | Number one, Donald Trump's allies were charged in a 2020 election investigation in Arizona. |
| 0:34.0 | Seven attorneys or aides linked to Trump and 11 Arizona Republicans were charged yesterday. |
| 0:40.0 | The list includes Trump's longtime attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and his White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. |
| 0:47.0 | They're accused of trying to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state. |
| 0:52.0 | Trump himself was not charged, but the former president is |
| 0:55.0 | described in the indictment as a co-conspirator. And Trump has a lot going on |
| 1:00.0 | today. His criminal trial in New York will be back in court. And the Supreme Court |
| 1:05.2 | will hear arguments on whether he's immune from prosecution. You can follow that |
| 1:09.2 | hearing live on the post's homepage and YouTube channel from 930 a.m. Eastern. |
| 1:14.0 | Number two, the Supreme Court appeared sharply divided over emergency room abortions. Yesterday justices heard arguments about a federal |
| 1:26.7 | law that requires hospitals to stabilize or transfer any patients requiring urgent care. |
| 1:35.2 | They debated whether that law means hospitals must provide emergency abortion care, even in states with strict abortion bans. |
| 1:40.2 | Conservative justices Disagreed. Justice Alena Kagan spoke about Idaho's abortion ban, which only |
| 1:55.4 | allows the procedure when a patient's life is at risk, not just their health. |
| 1:59.8 | All of these cases are rare, but within these rare cases, |
| 2:02.9 | there's a significant number where the woman is, |
| 2:06.5 | her life is not in peril, but she's going to lose her reproductive organs. |
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