Date: September 5, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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The News Round-Up is your pipeline to what’s taking place around the nation and the world. Here’s a sample of what Jim presented this week:
–President Trump is concerned that China’s Xi Jinping is conspiring against the U.S. with the leaders of Russia and North Korea as they gathered for a military parade in Beijing marking the anniversary of China’s defeat of the Japanese in WWII.
–The leaders of China and Russia were caught on a “hot mic” discussing increasing longevity through organ transplants.
–China and Russia have green-lit a new cross border natural gas pipeline.
–Russian President Putin claimed he never refused a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and invited him to come to Moscow.
–North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would fully support Russia’s army as a fraternal duty. President Putin called the ties of the two nations, “special.”
–The Trump administration has approved 825 million dollars in weapons sales to Ukraine.
–Leaders from 26 nations have pledged to commit troops to Ukraine as part of the post-war security guarantees.
–A federal grand jury in Dayton, Ohio, has indicted 3 U.S. citizens, 22 Chinese citizens and 4 Chinese pharmaceutical companies in international drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies.
–The House overwhelmingly passed a bill seeking to stop the flow of fentanyl from China.
–Federal officials have called the capture of 1,300 barrels of substances coming in from China to Mexico, the largest seizure of precursor chemicals in the history of U.S. law enforcement.
–During a Wednesday press conference with the Polish president, a Polish media reporter stated there has been no action on the front regarding ironing out a peace deal with Ukraine. President Trump was able to disarm the reporter’s attempt at a “gotcha” moment. Jim provided audio from the press conference.
–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to shelve a plan to apply Israeli sovereignty to the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria.
–President Trump makes another urgent plea for Hamas to release all the hostages.
–Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia communicates that the idea that rights come from God is extremely troubling.
