Shumita (Shamita) Basu

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365 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 22 Jan

Shumita (Shamita) Basu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.

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Apple News Today · Shutdown forces airports into unprecedented flight reductions · 6 Nov 2025 podcast

Yesterday, he gathered a group of Republican senators in Miami for a breakfast.

There, he delivered his own verdict on what went wrong for the party.

After the cameras left, Axios reports that it became an uncomfortable meeting.

As Trump warned lawmakers, they would be seen as do-nothing Republicans if the shutdown continued.

And he again called for Republicans to pursue what's long been seen as a radical option, eliminate the filibuster, that is, changing the Senate rules requiring 60 votes for most legislation.

But this call has inspired rare dissent from GOP leadership.

Both Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson have dismissed the idea, either because the votes aren't there or because they fear what it would mean if Democrats won majorities.

In his assessment of this week's election results, Johnson avoided joining Trump in pinning the blame on the congressional standoff.

Meanwhile, talks on how to get the government moving again are stepping up, according to Politico.

They're centered on whether to at least agree on a short-term measure called a continuing resolution and for how long, and whether Democrats could agree to a guaranteed vote on expanding health care subsidies.

Senator Bernie Sanders outlined the steps he would need to see.

Axios reports that for some Democrats, that positioning has only strengthened following the election.

Let's turn to an underreported part of the world.

The ongoing civil war in Sudan has been escalating in recent weeks, and it's now being called the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth.

And a warning, this story has some graphic descriptions of war and violence.

Mass executions and sexual violence have been reported, and this week a famine was formally declared.

The world has condemned the killings, but this is a complicated conflict with no clear route to peace.

We spoke to Alex Duvall, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an Africa analyst for the BBC.

De Waal told us at its core, this conflict centers on two factions who ruled the country together after ousting the president back in 2019.

But that alliance soon broke down and descended into a power struggle between the Sudanese armed forces and a militia group called the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.

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