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Why Trump’s new campaign playbook is so effective · Apple News Today

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  [MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Gideon Resnick, Narrating: Good morning!
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  It's Monday, January 22nd.
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  I'm Gideon Resnick, in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today."
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  On today's show, behind the scenes
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  of how former President Trump is dominating the primary.
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  New research about long COVID is offering hope to millions.
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  And Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer enters the record books.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  We'll start with the presidential campaign,
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  where another candidate is dropping out and endorsing
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  former President Donald Trump,
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  just ahead of tomorrow's New Hampshire primary.
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  [START TWITTER ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Ron DeSantis: While this campaign has ended, the mission continues.
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  Down here in Florida, we will continue to show the country how to lead.
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  Thank you and God bless.
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  [END TWITTER ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: With Ron DeSantis out of the way, Nikki Haley is the last major candidate
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  to stand in the way of Trump getting the Republican nomination,
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  and it is an uphill battle.
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  Trump also recently got the endorsement of South Carolina Senator Tim Scott,
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  and polls show Trump with a wide lead in New Hampshire.
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  Molly Ball: The big story, the overriding story, the real takeaway
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  that actually matters for the election is Trump's dominance.
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  Resnick, Narrating: That's Molly Ball, senior political correspondent
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  for "The Wall Street Journal."
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  At the Iowa caucuses last week, Trump's margin of victory
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  set a new record, and he's got a huge lead in national polls of Republican voters.
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  So, how could it be possible that a man impeached twice
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  and now facing 91 criminal charges remains this popular?
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  Molly Ball: Normally, in politics, it's not a good thing
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  if you're under criminal indictment at all.
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  But he's been able to use that to really rally Republican voters around him
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  and convince them that he is being victimized
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  and increase voter sympathy for him on that basis.
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  Resnick, Narrating: The legal chaos around Trump
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  also obscures a very organized campaign underneath, Ball says.
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  Molly Ball: His campaign in 2024 looks very different.
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  It is run by seasoned and ruthless operatives
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  who have executed a very disciplined strategy.
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  Resnick, Narrating: They've worked to keep Trump largely out of the public eye
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  and out of events that could be damaging to him,
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  like the GOP debates.
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  Among Republican voters, for now, Trump's strategy appears to be working,
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  but it may not in the general election.
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  Molly Ball: He still is quite unpopular with the electorate overall.
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  He lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
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  He is facing an unprecedented onslaught from the legal system.
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  He's been thrown off the ballots in two states.
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  [PENSIVE MUSIC]
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  So his candidacy has a lot of baggage,
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  a lot of reasons to consider him vulnerable.
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  Resnick, Narrating: Now let's take a quick look at some other major stories in the news.
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  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rejecting a Hamas proposal
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  that would release hostages in exchange for an end to the war in Gaza.
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  Hamas says this means there's, quote,
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  "no chance for the return of captive Israelis."
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  Netanyahu is also repeating his stance
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  that he will not support a Palestinian state.
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  This comes after President Biden said that he's been speaking with Netanyahu
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  about ways there could be an independent Palestinian state.
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  Over the weekend,
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  Gaza's Health Ministry said the death toll there passed 25,000 people.
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  Elsewhere in the region, two Navy SEALs
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  who went missing in an operation in waters
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  off the coast of Somalia have been declared dead by the U.S. military.
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  This was during a mission to intercept Iranian-made weapons
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  bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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  After ten days of searching,
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  the military is now focusing on recovering their remains.
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  To the U.S., where the FAA is recommending that airlines also inspect
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  an earlier generation of Boeing 737 planes.
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  It says airlines should check door plugs on 737-900ER jets.
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  That follows questions about bolts on the 737 MAX 9.
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  A nearly brand new Alaska Airlines jet had to make an emergency landing
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  after a large panel blew off, leaving a gaping hole.
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  And in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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  inaugurated a controversial new Hindu temple today.
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  It's in the town of Ayodhya, on a site that once held a mosque.
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  It was destroyed more than three decades ago
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  by a mob of Hindu militants.
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  Critics say Modi has not done enough
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  to prevent Hindu violence against Muslims in India.
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  "NPR" spoke to Valay Singh, author of a history on Ayodhya.
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  The new temple is still under construction.
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  Singh explained that Modi's party was eager to open it
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  before the elections in the spring.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Valay Singh: Opening this in January is critical
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  for them to go to elections with this feather in their cap.
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  So it's a very big, actually, launchpad for the elections.
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  Resnick, Narrating: Modi is widely expected to win a third consecutive term.
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  Long COVID can be as devastating as cancer.
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  That's what a leading American epidemiologist,
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  Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, told Congress last week.
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  [START U.S. SENATE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly: The burden of long COVID,
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  the burden of disease and disability from long COVID,
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  when you measure it,
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  is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease.
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  And even if people emerge unscathed after having the first infection,
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  they can still get long COVID after reinfection.
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  [END U.S. SENATE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: He said at least 20 million people in the U.S.
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  are affected by long COVID.
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  Some have spent months, even years, suffering from debilitating symptoms,
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  including extreme fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, and more.
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  Doctors and patients testified before a Senate committee
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  last week to urge lawmakers to better fund COVID research.
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  They talked about their frustration trying to treat a condition
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  that they say the medical community doesn't fully understand.
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  Long COVID patient Angela Meriquez Vázquez testified about her struggle
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  to even be properly diagnosed.
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  [START U.S. SENATE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Angela Meriquez Vázquez: I had many clinical signs that something was wrong within weeks.
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  High markers for an autoimmune disease,
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  labs that showed my blood was severely clotted,
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  markers of an overactivated and exhausted immune system.
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  All were dismissed by doctors as anxiety, but now are being verified
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  by the decades-long overdue research
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  as clear evidence of infection-related pathology.
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  [END U.S. SENATE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: On the same day as the hearing, a new study offered some clues.
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  Researchers found that long COVID patients
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  had immune systems that stayed active way longer than normal.
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  The immune system goes to work when you're sick, but if it stays
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  on high alert too long, it can start damaging healthy cells.
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  This could help explain the symptoms that people with long COVID feel.
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  Advocates hope the findings will help lead to better testing
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  and treatment for long COVID.
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  As Dr. Al-Aly told Congress, millions are suffering,
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  and there is a very long way to go to fix the problem.
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  [START U.S. SENATE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly: There are zero, zero approved medication for the treatment of long COVID.
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  So these people have nothing to really lean on for curative treatment.
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  Nothing. Zero.
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  Zero FDA-approved medications for the treatment of long COVID.
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  This must change.
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  [END U.S. SENATE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: Finally, Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer
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  is now in the sports history books.
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  Yesterday's win over Oregon State was her 1,203rd victory.
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  That puts her ahead of legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski
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  with the most wins in college basketball history.
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  After the game, VanDerveer paid tribute to women's basketball overall
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  and all the players that she's coached over the years.
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  [START PAC-12 NETWORK ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Tara VanDerveer: I'm so jealous because I never got to do what they get to do, but I'm able
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  to watch a little girl's dream play out through them.
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  [END PAC-12 NETWORK ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: She's in her 45th year of coaching, with most of that time at Stanford.
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  Along the way, she's won three national titles
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  and been to 14 Final Fours.
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  Coaching at the highest level is a busy job,
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  but VanDerveer always finds time
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  to play bridge, including on the day of the game where she broke the record.
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  She plays against her 96-year-old mom.
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  She told "USA TODAY," "Bridge is a lot like basketball."
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  "You've got to play the hand you're dealt."
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  "Sometimes you've got a lot of aces, and sometimes you don't."
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  You can find all these stories we talked about today
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  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've got a Narrated Article coming up next from "Texas Monthly."
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  It's about a woman who spent decades regretting a choice she made
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  to convict a man of rape.
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  She thought he was innocent,
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  but felt pressured by other jurors to convict,
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  and spent years second-guessing the decision.
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  Then some 30 years later, she decided to do something about it.
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  If you're listening in the Podcasts app, you can follow Apple News+ Narrated
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  to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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