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What to watch on Super Tuesday · Apple News Today

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  Yasmeen Khan, Narrating: Good morning! It's Tuesday, March 5th. I'm Yasmeen Khan in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today." Coming up, why Super Tuesday feels
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  a bit less "super" this year, how North Korea is getting more dangerous
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  to the world, and Taylor Swift, caught in a diplomatic fight.
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  It's Super Tuesday, with voters in 16 states heading to the polls.
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  Former president Donald Trump is in the driver's seat
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  on the Republican side. He's the winner of all but one contest,
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  including the North Dakota caucuses last night. And yesterday's
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  Supreme Court ruling ended a legal threat to keep him off the ballot.
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  Meanwhile, President Biden is cruising toward the Democratic nomination,
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  with no serious challenger. We spoke to Amy Walter, editor
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  and publisher of the "Cook Political Report,"
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  about where things stand.
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  Amy Walter: If I was talking to you at the beginning of January, 2023, I would say, boy,
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  I don't know if Trump and Biden will make it onto the ballot.
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  They both have such serious weaknesses with so many Democrats saying,
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  "Oh, I want an alternative," and so many Republicans saying,
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  "I don't know, I'm open to an alternative,"
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  and it looked like we were going to get a competitive primary. And yet,
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  here we are, it's Super Tuesday, and it doesn't feel very super.
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  Khan, Narrating: Still, Walter says, it's important to pay attention to the results
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  because they show friction points within the parties. For example,
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  so far Trump has performed poorly with suburban
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  and college-educated primary voters. Nikki Haley has gotten their support.
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  She's expected to drop out after Super Tuesday, which leaves
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  the question of how strongly her supporters would come out for Trump
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  in the general election. Meanwhile, Biden recently faced a protest vote
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  in the Michigan Democratic primary. Over 100,000 people voted "uncommitted."
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  Arab American leaders encouraged this, as a protest of Biden's support for Israel
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  in the Gaza war. Walter says it's unclear what that discontent could mean
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  for November.
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  Walter: What we don't know about the voters who showed up and voted in Michigan
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  is whether their vote was simply that, a protest, but not clear
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  that it also means, "and by the way, I won't show up
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  and vote for you in November if this policy doesn't change."
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  Many of the people who showed up could be people who never intended
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  and will never vote for Joe Biden. Some people will absolutely vote
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  for Joe Biden, no matter what, but they wanted to send their note
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  of protest.
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  Khan, Narrating: But given how tight the race is looking for the general election,
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  Walter says losing any group of voters, no matter how small, could matter.
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  Walter: In all likelihood, this race is going to be very, very close as 2016 was,
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  as 2020 was. And so even the smallest bit of defection, right, 10,000 votes here,
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  5,000 votes there, I decided to stay home.
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  I decided I really am upset with the policy
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  the administration's taking. I'm voting a third-party candidate.
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  That has a tremendous impact on the final outcome.
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  Khan, Narrating: You can follow the results in every Super Tuesday contest,
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  and find all the best coverage in the Apple News app.
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  Now, let's take a quick look at some other stories in the news.
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  A new U.N. report says there's strong evidence of sexual assaults
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  during the October 7th attacks by Hamas, and against hostages taken that day.
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  U.N. special envoy Pramila Patten led the mission.
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  [START THE GUARDIAN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Pramila Patten: We found clear and convincing information that sexual violence, including rape,
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  sexualized torture, cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment has been committed
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  against captives and we also have reasonable grounds
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  to believe that such violence may still be ongoing
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  against those still held in captivity.
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  [END THE GUARDIAN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Patten said the report reinforces the need for a ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas has denied
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  that its personnel committed sexual assaults during the attack.
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  The U.N. team also visited the West Bank, where Palestinians accused
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  Israeli security forces and settlers of sexual violence
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  against Palestinian prisoners.
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  In the U.S., the Supreme Court is temporarily freezing
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  a Texas immigration law that would allow state authorities
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  to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally.
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  The Biden administration argues this is unconstitutional,
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  because border security is the federal government's job.
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  Correspondent David Noriega spoke on "NBC" about the case.
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  [START NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  David Noriega: There's pretty clear precedent that immigration enforcement
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  is the purview of the federal government. Laws that are comparable to this one
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  have been struck down by the Supreme Court in the last decade or so.
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  At the same time, this is a different Supreme Court
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  than we've had in the last decade or so. And we live in a time of surprises,
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  and so I don't want to say anything could happen
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  but I'm not gonna make any sure predictions.
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  [END NBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: In Michigan, jury selection begins today in the trial of James Crumbley.
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  He's the father of the teenage school shooter
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  who killed four people at Oxford High School in 2021.
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  The shooter's mother, Jennifer Crumbley, was found guilty of four counts
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  of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year.
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  James Crumbley has pleaded not guilty to the same charges.
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  And France is now the first country in the world to explicitly protect
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  the right to abortion in its constitution. The change was made official
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  in an overwhelming vote in parliament yesterday. The movement
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  to change France's constitution gained force in 2022,
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  after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade.
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  As much of the world's attention is focused on conflicts in Ukraine
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  and Gaza, North Korea is taking advantage of this moment to beef up
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  its nuclear arsenal. "The Wall Street Journal" points
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  to some disturbing developments. Here are just a few:
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  In the past few weeks, North Korea has test fired
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  multiple missiles. Its leader, Kim Jong Un, seems to have abandoned
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  all hopes for reunification with the South. He announced plans
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  to rewrite North Korea's constitution to label South Korea as its primary enemy
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  and he's told the army to prepare for a, quote, "great revolutionary event."
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  He's also more closely aligned himself with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Nicholas Kristof: So something strange is going on in North Korea and has been for a few years.
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  Khan, Narrating: That's Nicholas Kristof speaking to "NPR" last month. He's a columnist
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  with "The New York Times," who's written about the region
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  for decades.
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  Kristof: They've been more distant. They've held the West off.
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  They've ratcheted up the rhetoric. The recent warning
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  about a great revolutionary event was concerning.
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  [END NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Kristof points to experts on the region who say they're concerned
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  that North Korea could be preparing to launch an attack. Other experts say,
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  they don't think North Korea wants a war, but if the United States were to withdraw
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  troops from the peninsula, that could increase the likelihood
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  of an attack. Thomas Schafer, Germany's former ambassador
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  to North Korea, told "NPR" there's another key factor
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  to pay attention to, the U.S. presidential election.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Thomas Schafer: Pyongyang hopes for a win, I believe, by Trump
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  or another isolationist Republican to get another chance to come closer
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  to their main strategic goal, which is a weakening
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  of the U.S.-South Korean alliance and withdrawal of the U.S. troops
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  from the Korean peninsula.
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  [END NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Kim Jong Un had previously tried to strike a deal with former President Trump
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  that would have shed some sanctions in exchange for disarmament.
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  But that fell apart and ever since, he's restarted missile tests
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  and developed weapons that could credibly target Japan
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  and South Korea. Schafer said to combat these concerns,
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  the international community can keep trying to negotiate.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Schafer: Well, I think what the international community has been doing
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  in the last decades, that is trying to engage with North Korea,
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  offering political and economic incentives,
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  giving security guarantees, and building confidence
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  is the right cause. One should remember that North Korea does not only consist
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  of one person who decides all, actually it's 25 million, and as I believe
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  the leadership is broader than many people to think
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  and not all have the same thinking.
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  [END NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: This week, South Korean and U.S. troops are doing
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  annual military drills. North Korea has not reacted just yet,
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  but in the past, the country has responded with more missile tests.
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  Finally, how Taylor Swift is at the center of a diplomatic tiff in Asia.
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  She's currently playing a string of six sold-out shows in Singapore.
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  It's her only stop in Southeast Asia, because of an exclusivity deal
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  with the government. Fans and politicians in neighboring countries aren't happy
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  about missing out. Thailand's prime minister has spoken out
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  against the deal. And a lawmaker from the Philippines said the move
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  to secure Swift "isn't what good neighbors do."
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  Today, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong defended the arrangement.
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  He said the move wasn't unfriendly to other countries, and that it was meant
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  to revive tourism there after COVID.
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  [START THE GUARDIAN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Lee Hsien Loong: If that's what's needed to be done to get an outcome which is mutually beneficial
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  and which, from Singapore's point of view, serves not just to grow
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  the economy but also to bring in visitors and goodwill from all over the region,
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  I don't see why not.
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  [END THE GUARDIAN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: "CNBC" pulled together data showing that Swift's concerts are expected to pump
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  as much as 370 million dollars into Singapore's economy.
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  And hotel bookings by guests from Thailand, Indonesia,
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  and Malaysia have soared.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're already listening in the News app right now, stick around.
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  We've got a Narrated Article coming up next.
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  "Elle" spoke to the entrepreneur who coined the term "girl boss"
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  about why she's ready to walk away from that label.
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  If you're listening in the Podcasts app, follow Apple News+ Narrated to find
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  that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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