Harold Holzer
speaker
149 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 9 Aug
Harold Holzer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's where he was killed, in Donetsk, on a recovery mission.
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Scott Newman, NPR News.
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In twenty fourteen, after the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea and the insurgency in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, Alexei Yukov founded a volunteer organization known as Plotsdarm or Bridgehead to recover the dead on all sides of the conflict.
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Eight years later, Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine intensified the need for his efforts.
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Earlier in the war he was severely wounded in a similar mind blast to the one that killed him earlier this week.
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But that didn't slow Yuk down.
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He was known for getting in close to the action to recover remains and bring closure to the families of the dead.
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And that's where he was killed, in Donetsk on a recovery mission.
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Scott Newman, NPR News.
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In a ninety to six vote, the spending measure was passed in the early morning hours Saturday by lawmakers before they head home for a five week recess.
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The bill, which still must be approved by the House, generally keeps the government funded at current levels through December eleventh.
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Most Democrats voted for the bill after securing a provision that blocks money for US customs and border protection.
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They also rejected a one billion dollar request from the White House to begin work on a new Trump class battleship.
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Since the nineteen nineties, Congress has frequently relied on temporary spending measures instead of passing a comprehensive budget.
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Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.
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President Trump's former attorney was confirmed in a fifty to forty nine vote, with Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine voting against him.
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With ailing Senator Mitch McConnell absent, Blanche's fate rested on getting a last moment yes vote from Senator Bill Cassidy.
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Cassidy, who lost his primary to a Trump backed challenger, was concerned that as acting AG Blanche exempted the president from IRS audits, and that he'd used the power of the Department of Justice to go after Trump's political enemies.
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But earlier this week the Louisiana Republicans said he would vote for Blanche, all but assuring his nomination.
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Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.
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