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A date has been set for Trump's first criminal trial · Apple News Today

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  [INTRO MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Gideon Resnick, Narrating: Good morning. It's Thursday, February 15th.
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  I'm Gideon Resnick, in for Shumita Basu. This is "Apple News Today."
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  Coming up on today's show: a really busy week
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  for former President Trump's legal cases,
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  a humanitarian crisis in Sudan after 10 months of civil war…
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  and Beyoncé goes country.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, let's take a quick look at some major stories that are in the news.
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  A day of celebration in Kansas City yesterday turned
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  into a nightmare for the community
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  after one person was killed and nearly two dozen injured
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  in a shooting shortly after the parade for the new Super Bowl champs.
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  Many of the victims were children and teenagers.
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  An eyewitness told "CBS" when the shooting started,
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  the packed streets full of thousands of fans quickly turned chaotic.
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  [START CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Jacob Miekel (Eye Witness): Once the celebration was over, I mean, there was still
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  a good amount of fans still around,
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  and they were still trying to file out of the area.
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  It's a very heavily crowded area. And then all of a sudden chaos started to break out.
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  We see people running away from certain areas of where fans were.
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  And you could see people were very shaken up.
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  We've seen multiple people leave on stretchers in this situation.
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  [END CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said at least three people had been
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  arrested in connection with the shooting,
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  and they are still investigating the motive.
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  [START CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Stacey Graves: I'm angry… at what happened today.
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  The people who came to this celebration should expect a safe environment.
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  We had over 800 law enforcement officers, Kansas City and other agencies,
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  at the location to keep everyone safe.
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  [END CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: In Gaza, Israeli forces entered Nasser Hospital today,
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  the largest medical facility still operating.
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  The Israeli military ordered displaced people sheltering there
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  to leave yesterday,
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  but thousands are still said to be inside the hospital, including patients
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  and medical staff.
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  Israel's military claims Hamas is operating from the hospital,
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  which the group has denied.
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  Separately, "The Wall Street Journal" reports that
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  the State Department is investigating a number of Israeli airstrikes
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  in Gaza and the possible use of white phosphorus in Lebanon.
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  It's part of a probe to see if any weapons produced by the U.S.
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  have been misused to kill civilians.
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  If investigators determined that Israel misused American weapons,
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  they could recommend possible changes to how the U.S. supplies military aid.
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  Since the start of its war with Hamas, Israel has fired tens of thousands
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  of weapons into Gaza, including many missiles made
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  by the United States.
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  And in Florida, a new lunar mission launched early
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  this morning.
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  The Odysseus Lunar Lander, nicknamed ODI, hopes to be the first U.S.-made spacecraft
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  to touch down on the moon in five decades.
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  It was developed by a company in Houston, and it's planning to land in a crater near
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  the moon's south pole sometime next week.
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  [REFLECTIVE MUSIC FADES IN]
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  The trip is designed to be kind of a scouting mission before NASA plans
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  to send a crewed mission to the moon in late 2026.
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  This is a huge week in legal news for former President Donald Trump…
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  …with hearings that might determine the course of the next year.
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  He faces 91 total counts in four different criminal cases.
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  With other civil suits and impending Supreme Court decisions as well,
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  there is so much to keep track of, even for Justice Department reporters
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  like Perry Stein at "The Washington Post" assigned to cover his cases.
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  [START ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Perry Stein: My colleague who I cover most of these with, we have a big calendar right
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  by our desk where we are color coding and handwriting all of the important dates.
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: And today, their calendar is quite colorful.
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  There are two crucial hearings.
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  One is in New York, where a judge is expected to decide whether
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  the case regarding alleged hush money payments to the adult film star,
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  Stormy Daniels, will begin next month.
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  If that happens, it would be the first of Trump's four criminal trials
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  and the first time that an American president stands trial.
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  I started our conversation by asking Perry if the trial could conclude
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  before the presidential election.
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  Stein: It's absolutely possible, particularly if it goes to trial around March 25th.
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  No reason why it shouldn't be resolved by the summer, let's say.
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  Resnick: I want to also talk about the criminal case in Georgia,
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  where Trump has been accused of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election
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  in that state.
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  There's a hearing today for the district attorney prosecuting
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  the case, Fani Willis.
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  It has to do with this romantic relationship she had with
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  a lawyer who she hired to work on the case.
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  Why is this important?
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  And what could the consequences be, potentially, of her being removed?
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  Stein: Yeah, this whole thing is messy is how I would put it.
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  What the allegations are that she has had an improper relationship
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  with this prosecutor who she hired to work on the case
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  and that she financially benefited from it because he allegedly paid
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  for her travels.
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  Now, one of the defendants in the case, and a lot more, including Trump,
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  have signed on as this has gained steam, have said the entire case should
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  be dismissed because of this improper relationship.
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  So what we're seeing today is Judge McAfee is going
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  to hold an evidentiary hearing looking at, "okay, did it taint the case?"
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  Obviously, Fani Willis has
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  admitted that she did have a personal relationship
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  with this prosecutor, Nathan Wade, but she said these allegations
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  that it tainted the case are absolutely bogus,
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  and she has not financially benefited from it.
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  Resnick: Mm-hm. And I also want to talk about yet another case here.
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  This is the civil one that's in New York.
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  We're expecting a ruling there that could come as soon as Friday.
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  What is the potential impact here for Trump and his businesses?
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  Stein: The impact on this one is financial, right?
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  The allegations from the New York attorney general is
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  that Trump and his business associates inflated their real estate values
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  to get some financial benefits out of that.
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  We know that Letitia James wants hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars
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  in penalties, and it's up to this judge to decide how much will Trump need to pay.
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  Resnick: Right. So those are some of the state cases,
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  but let's talk about one of the federal ones here.
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  This one is about the classified documents Trump allegedly kept at Mar-a-Lago.
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  Walk us through some of the developments in that case from this week.
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  Stein: Definitely. So what we're seeing in Florida,
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  this is the classified document case where Trump is alleged
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  to have retained documents related to national defense information and then
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  thwarted and obstructed government officials attempts to retrieve them.
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  So those are the allegations.
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  Those are serious charges that he faces there.
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  What we saw this week is Trump has said he wants more classified information
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  as part of the discovery. So, the judge is hearing from both sides,
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  and now it's up to the judge to see if Trump meets the burden of it's necessary
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  of it's necessary and relevant for him to get this information.
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  And if so, also what safeguards they put them on.
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  Like, will there be redactions? Will there not be?
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  And Trump actually showed up to this closed door hearing this week.
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  Resnick: And so big picture here, what could Trump's calendar actually look
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  like if you had to chart it out, going forward, once this week is done?
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  Stein: I mean, once this week is done, we will have a perhaps better sense
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  in some of the cases what it could look like.
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  I mean, at least, you know, when his first trial would be, which,
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  I think we'll have more answers at the end of the month, but perhaps not all
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  of the answers.
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  Resnick: Well, Perry, I'm really grateful for your time. I sincerely appreciate it.
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  And I hope you have all of the color coordinating things
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  for the calendar at hand going forward.
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  [GENTLE MUSIC FADES IN]
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  [STEIN LAUGHS]
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  Stein: Thank you.
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  Resnick, Narrating: In Sudan, 10 months of civil war has led to one of the largest displacements
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  of people on the planet.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  The Sudanese military
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  and paramilitary forces are fighting each other for power.
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  And the war has been brutal for civilians.
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  At least 7.5 million people have been forced from their homes,
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  about half of them children, according to the UN.
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  In one medical camp in North Darfur, one child dies every two hours,
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  according to Doctors Without Borders.
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  James Elder, a spokesman for UNICEF, recently returned
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  from a visit to the border of Sudan and Chad,
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  where many refugees have gone.
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  He described to "NPR" the absolute devastation
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  of whole communities,
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  and the sense of eeriness walking through abandoned areas.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  James Elder: Could be a rural area or a neighborhood, like a middle-class neighborhood,
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  and it's empty.
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  It's just absolutely silent.
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  You can only hear underfoot, you hear the crunching of glass under your feet
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  and you look and it's buildings are pockmarked
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  and clothes and things,
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  everything's been burnt and looted and there is no one.
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  [END NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: Elder says it's impossible to understate the misery the war has caused.
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  People have endured sexual violence from fighters on both sides,
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  according to the U.S. State Department.
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  Some have been physically tortured or beaten to death.
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  Those that survive scramble for safety.
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  Elder says people are now starving and in need of the most basic human services,
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  shelter, clean water, food and health care.
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  Neighboring countries like Chad and South Sudan are taking in refugees.
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  And increased migration could lead to more instability across the region and ripple across the globe.
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  Elder: Already you're seeing a lot of migration there in that part of Africa,
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  going across to West Africa, going across into Europe.
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  And when you meet these people, you are reminded so much that they want
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  to live in their community.
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  I don't think I spoke to a single young person,
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  this is university age, who didn't want to keep doing their studies
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  and do something in Sudan.
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  But those opportunities are fading and dying and they and many other people
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  without those education qualifications will go wherever they possibly can.
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  Resnick, Narrating: UN officials have appealed to member nations for at least $4 billion
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  in funding for Sudan and neighboring countries that are taking
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  in refugees.
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  They say the money is needed urgently.
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  About 3.5 million children in Sudan face malnutrition this year,
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  and hundreds of thousands could die.
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  [GENTLE MUSIC FADES IN]
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  A recent dust-up with a country radio station
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  in Oklahoma is reigniting conversation around Black artists' reception
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  in the genre.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  If you missed all of this, we can explain.
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  A fan requested that a local station play the new Beyoncé song, "Texas Hold 'em."
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  ["TEXAS HOLD 'EM" - BY BEYONCÉ]
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  At first, the station responded saying, they're a country network,
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  and they don't play Beyoncé.
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  But they simply didn't know about the new songs
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  that were released just this past Sunday.
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  The misunderstanding, though, brought back memories for fans about
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  a previous time when Beyoncé released a country song.
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  In 2016, on her hit album Lemonade, there was a track called Daddy Lessons,
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  which she performed at the Country Music Awards
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  with the band The Chicks.
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  ["DADDY LESSONS" - BY BEYONCÉ & THE CHICKS]
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  [SONG FADES OUT]
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  The performance got a famously chilly reception
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  from country music fans on social media.
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  The song was also rejected for consideration in the country category
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  for the Grammys,
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  and "Billboard" put it on the R&B and hip-hop charts.
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  Rapper Lil Nas X ran into a similar issue a few years later,
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  when "Billboard" initially removed his hit, Old Town Road, from the country charts,
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  sparking a debate and pushback about who can make country music
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  and who it's really for.
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  "Billboard" reports that more country stations are likely
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  to start playing Beyoncé's new songs as they get them from the record label.
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  And as for that Oklahoma station that went viral,
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  they now have Texas Hold 'em in their rotation.
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  [OUTRO MUSIC FADES IN]
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  The general manager of the station told "CBS News,"
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  "We actually wish that artists wouldn't get boxed
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  into certain genres or formats… If it's good music, it's good music."
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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,
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  we have a narrated article coming up next.
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  "New York Magazine" looks at Democratic billionaire Bill Ackman's war
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  against President Biden, Harvard, and other elite institutions.
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  If you're listening in the podcast app, follow "Apple News Plus Narrated"
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  to find that story.
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  And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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