NPR News: 07-22-2025 8PM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. President Trump says new evidence shows former President Barack Obama manipulated a years old intelligence assessment about Russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election.
What new evidence is President Trump citing about the 2016 election intelligence?
NPR's Jenna McLaughlin reports Trump is referring to a new publication from his top intelligence official.
The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, recently published a compilation of newly declassified emails between Obama administration national security officials discussing Russian interference in the 2016 election. In those emails, the officials say Russia was unlikely to successfully hack the election or change vote tallies at scale. Gabbard argues that contradicts intelligence assertions made after the election. That Russia had tried to interfere on behalf of President Trump, who later won the presidency. But Democrats, including a spokesperson for President Obama, say Gabbard's claims are outrageous. They say nothing in her new release contradicts the twenty seventeen intelligence assessment.
Why was Alina Haba’s appointment as New Jersey U.S. Attorney challenged?
Jenna McLaughlin, NPR News.
Alina Haba, a former personal attorney to President Trump, is out as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports, a panel of federal judges declined to extend Haba's appointment.
President Trump tapped Alina Haba as interim U. S. attorney for New Jersey back in March. Haba can only serve on an interim basis for one hundred and twenty days, though. Beyond that, she would need to be confirmed by the Senate or have her tenure extended by the district court. Haba has faced opposition from some lawmakers, and now a panel of judges on the federal bench in New Jersey has declined to keep her in the job. Instead, the chief judge says in a new standing order that the court has appointed Desiree Lee Grace as the new US attorney, effective immediately. ABA stint in charge has been rocky, including her decision to bring charges against a Democratic congresswoman in connection with a confrontation outside an immigration detention facility.
Ryan Lucas NPR News, Washington.
NPR's president and CEO Katherine Marr says the public broadcaster will cut its own budget to help member stations after Congress took back federal funding.
How is NPR planning to support stations after the loss of federal funding?
Marr made the comment in an interview with Texas Public Radio. Dan Katz has more.
Public media stations across the country are losing a total of $350 million for each of the next two years. That money had already been approved by Congress. Marr says NPR's first response is to help stations that will be hit hardest by the cuts. Our board of directors at NPR made the decision that we would go ahead and reduce NPR's own operating budget by about eight million dollars in the year ahead in order for us to pass along that as fee relief to the most affected stations. It's the short term step for how we respond right now. One analysis has found that nationwide seventy nine public radio and thirty three T V stations are vulnerable to closing down with the loss of federal funding. I'm Dan Katz in San Antonio.
This is NPR. Health authorities in Gaza say twenty five children have died from famine and malnutrition in the past week, this as several overwhelmed clinics without access to medical supplies are closing. The World Health Organization and other groups say they have aid waiting to cross into Gaza.
What is the humanitarian situation in Gaza and why is aid blocked?
But they haven't gotten permission from the Israeli military to deliver it. Jerusalem's Latin patriarch and other church leaders say they have returned from Gaza with quote broken hearts. NPR's Ruth Sherlock has the latest. Cardinal
Pierre Battista Pizzaballa and Theophilus III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Visited the Holy Family Church compound in Gaza that was hit by an Israeli strike last week. Pizzabella told journalists, quote, We walked through the dust of ruins, past collapsed buildings and tents everywhere, in courtyards, alleyways, and on the streets and on the beach, tents that have become homes for those who've lost everything. Speaking of the hunger that now grips Gazans after months of Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid, Jerusalem's
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:15
2
What new evidence is President Trump citing about the 2016 election intelligence?
0:15–1:01
3
Why was Alina Haba’s appointment as New Jersey U.S. Attorney challenged?
1:01–2:09
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How is NPR planning to support stations after the loss of federal funding?
2:09–3:18
5
What is the humanitarian situation in Gaza and why is aid blocked?
3:18–4:20
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What are the goals of President Marcos Jr.’s visit to Washington?
4:20–4:39