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This week's genre: Broadway Jazz. BopsReport turns the biggest headlines of the week into a news recap — sung, not read. Every week gets a different genre, so the sound is never the same twice. This week: Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after just five days, Pew finds Trump's approval at 30% with the midterms weeks away, September inflation hits 3.7% as gas prices jump 34% in a year, two ships sink near the Strait of Hormuz, Trump waives the Graham Act's Russia sanctions, Pope Leo XIV undergoes lung cancer surgery, a school shooting in Bend, Oregon kills three children and a teacher, Selma Blair is arrested after a Delta flight, Duane "Keffe D" Davis gets 40 years to life in Tupac Shakur's murder, Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte dies at 34, and the Brewers sweep the Dodgers to reach the World Series. All the news you need this week, in one song.

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This week's genre: Southern Rock. BopsReport turns the biggest headlines of the week into a news recap — sung, not read. Every week gets a different genre, so the sound is never the same twice. This week: Hurricane Isaias makes landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2, leaving at least four dead and over 800,000 without power; Trump and Putin strike a diesel deal as the Treasury eases sanctions and diesel hits $6.27 a gallon; Trump says no strikes on Iran before Election Day; a federal judge strikes down the Justice Department's voter-roll checks; consumer sentiment falls to a five-month low; the Justice Department seeks to charge ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson; an ICE officer shoots a New York father with his 5-year-old son in the car; the Pentagon plans to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution; Caleb Flynn gets life without parole; Stanford's Karl Deisseroth and Wisconsin's Francis Halzen win Nobel Prizes; and Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" returns to No. 1. All the news you need this week, in one song.

"Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man." — John F. Kennedy, American University commencement address (June 10, 1963)

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This week's genre: 90s Hip Hop. BopsReport turns the biggest headlines of the week into a news recap — sung, not read. Every week gets a different genre, so the sound is never the same twice. This week: the economy adds just 29,000 jobs against a 90,000 forecast as unemployment rises to 4.2%, gas hits a September record of $4.33 a gallon, Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed as Trump rejects its offer, a Quinnipiac poll finds 61% disapprove of the President, New York's governor names Letitia James special prosecutor in the Cornell case, Tennessee halts executions after Christa Pike survives a lethal injection, Pennsylvania's measles outbreak reaches 943 cases, and fans say goodbye to Saved by the Bell's Dennis Haskins. All the news you need this week, in one song.

"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (1986)

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