Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ plan; coronavirus shots; New Orleans jailbreak; and more
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump announced plans for a new missile defense system. |
| 0:07.7 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Wednesday, May 21st. |
| 0:14.9 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:27.6 | President Trump wants to build a constellation of satellites and space-based weapons to intercept attacks on the U.S. The system would be called the Golden Dome. It would be similar |
| 0:34.2 | to Israel's Iron Dome. Trump made the announcement yesterday in the Oval Office. |
| 0:40.0 | In the campaign, I promised the American people that I would build a cut-in-edge missile |
| 0:44.3 | defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack. |
| 0:50.8 | And that's what we're doing. |
| 0:52.1 | Today, I'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected in architecture for the state-of-the-art system what we're doing. Today I'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected in |
| 0:55.5 | architecture for the state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the |
| 1:01.7 | land, sea and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors. |
| 1:07.0 | Trump has pushed for this for months, citing threats from countries such as Russia, China, and North Korea. |
| 1:14.2 | According to the Congressional Budget Office, it could cost up to $542 billion over the next two decades. |
| 1:22.7 | Trump has already allocated $25 billion in the federal budget toward the system's construction. |
| 1:29.2 | That's in the massive budget bill that Republicans in Congress aim to pass in the coming weeks. |
| 1:35.2 | Trump visited Capitol Hill yesterday to try and persuade Republicans to support the budget bill. |
| 1:40.5 | He suggested that Republicans who don't could face Trump-backed challengers in their |
| 1:45.8 | primary races. A judge ordered the U.S. to maintain custody of migrants sent to South Sudan. |
| 1:56.9 | That's number two. South Sudan is a war-torn nation in Africa that is facing a hunger crisis. |
| 2:04.8 | The Trump administration has sent an unknown number of migrants to the country, including at least one |
| 2:10.4 | immigrant from Myanmar. But a federal judge stepped in yesterday. He ruled that the Trump administration |
| 2:16.9 | must not let a group of migrants |
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