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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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[STEIN LAUGHS]

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<v Stein>Thank you.

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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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<v 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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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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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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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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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&amp;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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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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Democratic billionaire Bill Ackman's war

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against President Biden, Harvard,
and other elite institutions.

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