New Orleans Answers, House Speaker Vote, Golan Heights Tensions

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

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The music returns to New Orleans' Bourbon Street, while investigators say a New Year's attacker acted alone. A new Congress prepares for a House speaker vote. And villagers in the Golan Heights tell NPR about Israeli security operations near Syria's border.

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0:00.0	The music is back on Bourbon Street.
0:05.0	Just let them know that the love is still out of you.
0:07.0	People resume their lives as the FBI says a New Year's Morning attacker acted alone.
0:12.0	What's their reading of the evidence?
0:13.0	I'm Steven Ski with Leila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:18.0	Members of the House of Representatives meet today.
0:22.6	Republicans are to elect a speaker, and Mike Johnson will need every vote he can get.
0:28.0	A very small number of holdouts would have the power to block him.
0:31.2	So what happens if he falls short?
0:33.1	Also, Israel moved into a UN-monitored buffer zone when the government collapsed in neighboring Syria.
0:38.3	Our correspondent visited the Golan Heights.
0:40.3	How are residents describing what Israeli troops are doing?
0:43.2	Stay with us.
0:43.9	We'll give you the news you need to start your day.
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1:08.2	What's in store for the music, TV, and film industries for 2025? We don't know,
1:13.8	but we're making some fun, bold predictions for the new year. Listen now to the Pop Culture
1:18.8	Happy Hour podcast from NPR. What are the best albums of 2024? Find out on the latest
1:25.8	episode of NPR's All Songs Considered.
1:28.4	There's a lot of people who could sing that exact line, and I would be like, you're
1:32.5	under arrest.
1:35.5	But she pulls it on.
	...

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