Tuesday, July 25, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
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Tuesday briefing: Israel protests; U.S. heat wave; Rio Grande barrier; Spotify price hike; white font résumé trick; and more
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| 0:00.0 | A national crisis is growing in Israel. |
| 0:06.0 | Spotify is raising prices and you can expect more intense heat this week. |
| 0:11.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the 7th from the Washington Post. I'm Jeff Pier. It's |
| 0:15.4 | Tuesday, July 25th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:19.9 | Number one, lawmakers in Israel voted to weaken the Supreme Court's power to block government |
| 0:29.7 | actions. |
| 0:31.0 | The measure was pushed through despite months of protests. |
| 0:34.0 | Yesterday the dissent happened in the Parliament building and you can hear lawmakers chanting shame, shame during the vote. |
| 0:47.0 | Thousands of people marched in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv yesterday. |
| 0:50.3 | Police used water cannons and horse patrols against them. |
| 0:53.0 | 52 year old army officer Tomer-Nove was one of the people who joined the massive protests. |
| 0:59.0 | This is a fight for values. This is a fight for our lives, for our children. We will never |
| 1:06.6 | never surrender. I promise you, they do not have the power against our forces which |
| 1:11.8 | are millions of people and now the people just like me which are serving |
| 1:16.1 | the army are saying I'm not going to get commands from a government which is which is so |
| 1:22.3 | right wing so unreasonable, never. |
| 1:25.9 | Yesterday's vote may have been the start of a wider overhaul of Israel's legal system. |
| 1:31.0 | Protesters say the plan threatens one of the only real checks on government |
| 1:34.9 | power. Number two, this will be the hottest week of the summer in most of the US. |
| 1:50.3 | More than 250 million people are set to suffer heat indexes over 90 degrees. |
| 1:56.0 | The heat won't be as intense as it was in the southwest last week, |
| 1:59.6 | but it'll cover a lot more territory. |
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