WSJ Minute Briefing - Nvidia’s Developers’ Conference Is Focusing on a New Type of AI Computing

Plus: Italian bank UniCredit has offered to buy all the remaining shares of Germany’s Commerzbank. And Intuit plans to roughly double its stock buybacks to shore up its falling stock. Pierre Bienaimé hosts.


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Focus on Africa - Africa Eye: Somali soldiers fighting IS

The BBC’s Africa Eye embeds with Puntland forces in Somalia’s northeastern Al-Miskaad mountains as they fight Islamic State (IS) militants. Nearly a decade after its defeat in the Middle East, IS has spread across Africa. Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland has become a key hub, with the UN estimating that IS in Somalia was comprised of up to 800 fighters last year. Over half of these militants were believed to be foreign recruits.

We also look at the rising number of Egyptians migrating irregularly to Europe. Victims' families said that smugglers were demanding thousands of dollars, sometimes issuing death threats, leaving loved ones living in fear. Egyptians now represent the largest African group entering the European Union (EU) and the second largest globally, after Bangladeshis. This episode explores what’s behind this surge in migration.

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CBS News Roundup - 03/16/2026 | World News Roundup

The Iran war now into its third week, as oil prices spike again. One Battle After Another wins the battle for most Oscars. CBS News Correspondent Cami McCormick has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast.

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Marketplace All-in-One - Air travel as a political football

TSA agents and air traffic controllers are missing their first full month of paychecks as a result of the partial government shutdown. In response, CEOs of major U.S. airlines have written an open letter urging Congress to fund the Department of Homeland Security and end the shutdown, which has dragged on as Democrats demand reforms to immigration enforcement practices. Plus, how might emerging technologies like AI amplify global threats, such as nuclear war?

WSJ Minute Briefing - Trump Tries to Build Coalition to Open the Strait of Hormuz

Plus: Workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants are set to strike amid soaring beef prices. And U.S. airline executives urge Congress to pay air-traffic controllers and airport security officers as spring travel season heats up. Luke Vargas hosts.


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WSJ What’s News - U.S. Asks for Help to Address Energy Crisis

A.M. Edition for Mar. 16. President Trump says he and his team have approached seven countries about policing the Strait of Hormuz – the vital waterway for global energy supplies. WSJ Brussels bureau chief Daniel Michaels discusses the options facing some of America’s allies as they weigh their response. Plus, airline executives call on lawmakers to end the partial government shutdown causing long lines at airports. And Europe’s far left has its moment. Luke Vargas hosts.


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Up First from NPR - Middle East War Week 3, Trump Messaging ‘Winning’, Voting Act

Israeli officials say the man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week had family killed in an airstrike in Lebanon, Israel says they targeted a Hezbollah commander in the home.
President Trump is repeating one message as the war enters its third week  'the U.S. is winning', even as gas prices soar and Americans grow more skeptical of the Middle East war.
And Senate Republicans are pushing a bill to require proof of citizenship to register to vote, but it may not have the votes to clear the Senate.

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(9:37) Voting Act in Senate 

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Start the Week - Consciousness and Identity

What makes us who we are? In Radio 4's discussion programme to start off the week, Tom Sutcliffe and guests explore consciousness and identity, and whether the face reveals our inner thoughts and character.

American science writer Michael Pollan is celebrated for his work on food and psychedelic drugs. His new book A World Appears, is a sweeping investigation into consciousness - examining where our sense of self comes from, how it is experienced across species, and what new theories from neuroscience, philosophy and plant biology reveal about awareness.

Cultural historian Fay Bound-Alberti traces the long, complex history of the human face, showing how it has been used to define identity, moral character and social status, and how new technologies – from photography to facial recognition – shape our understanding of selfhood in the modern world.

Mary Costello’s latest novel A Beautiful Loan, focuses on the life of Anna Hughes, a woman looking back across decades of love, loss and betrayal as she tries to understand the choices that shaped her and the deeper self she learns, slowly, to claim.

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