US News Roundup of the Week - Sept. 25 to Oct. 1st, 2015

Pope Francis at Varginha, Brazil on 27 July 2013 / Wikimedia Commons / Photo: Tânia Rêgo/ABr

On the program: 

- Pope Francis in America

- Putin at the UN after ten years

- John Boehner resigns from House Speaker position
- Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards' hearing
- Republican candidate Jeb Bush for the pipeline project
- Volkswagen will repair up to 11 million vehicles
- Twitter announces a “buy now” button
- Kelly Gissendaner is executed in Georgia, the first woman prisoner to be executed in 70 years
- Richard Glossip's execution is accorded a stay of 37 days
- Fast and Furious Paul Walker's death circumstances under scrutiny
- Water is discovered on Mars
- Yankees win 6 to 1 over White Sox
- Green Bay Packers win 38 to 28 over Kansas City Chiefs
- Special report on America's prisons aired on HBO

- Hurricane Joaquin forms into a Category 3 hurricane

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This radio news roundup was produced as a university assignment.