Month: July 2024

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NBN Book of the Day - Miranda Melcher, “Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties” (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace processes in order to demonstrate that how treaties are negotiated and written significantly impacts their implementation. 

Drawing on case studies from the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars, Miranda Melcher demonstrates the critical importance of specificity in peace treaties in understanding implementation outcomes for military integration. Based on unique primary source data, including interviews with key actors who have participated in peace treaty negotiations, as well as thousands of previously unassessed UN archival documents, Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties (Bloomsbury, 2024) offers new insights and policy recommendations for key details whose presence or absence can have a significant impact on how peace processes unfold.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The English Premier League

The most popular sports league in the world in terms of the number of people who follow and watch is the English Premier League. 

Unlike other sports leagues, the English Premier League is relatively new. It was only created in the early 90s in response to the poor condition of top-division football at the time. 

Since then, it has brought in billions in revenue for the clubs that have played in the league, as well as some of the world’s highest salaries for its players. 

Learn more about the English Premier League, how it was formed, and its possible future on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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In God We Lust - Listen Now: Even the Royals

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. We know the six wives of Henry the eighth as pawns in his hunt for a son. But their lives were so much more than just being the king’s wives. 


Each episode of Wondery’s podcast Even the Royals pulls back the curtain on royal families, past and present, from all over the world, to show you the darker side of what it means to be royalty. 


This is just a preview of Even the Royals. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or at wondery.fm/eventheroyals. 



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Strict Scrutiny - A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Term

Kate, Melissa, and Leah steel themselves to look back on a truly terrible term for the ages. From SCOTUS’s determined effort to hollow out the administrative state to its cynical dodges on abortion to granting immunity to certain corrupt former presidents, it was a rough ride. Drink, anyone?

  • In case you want to hear our predictions for yourself, go back and listen to our term preview from September 2023

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The NewsWorthy - Hurricane Targets Texas, Largest Password Leak & Today’s Travel- Monday, July 8, 2024

The news to know for Monday, July 8, 2024!

We'll tell you about a major storm heading for Texas and the ongoing heatwave on both coasts.

Also, new calls for President Biden to step aside in the next election.

Plus, a few things to know that might have you taking action ASAP:

  • the largest collection of stolen passwords ever means you might want to update your accounts
  • two recalls from big brand names about products that could be dangerous (I have one affected product in my house right now)
  • the best days and times to book your travel

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What A Day - Biden Defies Calls To Exit The Presidential Race

President Joe Biden spent the long July Fourth weekend trying to save his re-election bid after his disastrous debate performance more than a week ago. On the campaign trail and in his first post-debate interview with ABC, the president was adamant that he would not leave the race. But Biden’s publicity blitz did little to assure panicked Democrats in Washington, with some top lawmakers in both the House and Senate privately voicing hopes that the president will drop out. Alex Thompson, national political reporter for Axios, gets us up to speed on what happened over the long holiday break.

And in headlines: French voters successfully rallied to stop the formation of the country’s first far-right government since World War II, Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to make landfall in southern Texas today, and four crew members inside NASA’s first Mars simulation have emerged from their year-long isolation.

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The Best One Yet - 🍯 “How to make $1 Billion” — Steve Ballmer’s money story. Electric Bikes’ Gen Z surge. Citibank’s criminal ATM.

Bill Gates’ former assistant is now wealthier than Bill Gates… it’s a lesson on risk, reward, and makin’ money.

E-Bikes are surging thanks to Gen Z… because they don’t sell bikes, they sell freedom.

Citibank is now the top bank of money-laundering… thanks to Citi’s (allegedly) criminal ATMs.

Plus, it’s time for Mid-Year’s Resolutions… Our annual tradition (that’s better than New Year’s Resolutions).


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Short Wave - Sharks Often Get A Bad Rap, But Oceans Need Them

It's that time of the year again: Shark Week. The TV program is so long-running that if you're under 37, you've never known a life without it. In honor of this oft misunderstood critter, we revisit our conversation with shark scientist Melissa Christina Marquez. She explains just how important sharks are to keeping the oceans healthy, including their role in mitigating climate change. Plus, there may be some talk about shark poop.

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The Daily Signal - How Police Found Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Murdering Maryland Mother

Harford County, Maryland, Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler says he doesn't wonder if another American will become the victim of a violent crime at the hands of an illegal alien, but rather, when. 


“I don't ask myself if it's going to happen. I just ask when it's going to happen,” Gahler said, adding that as was recently the case in his own community, it's often women who are the victims of “this failure of the federal immigration system.” 


The sheriff received notification on Aug. 5, 2023, that a woman had gone missing. Rachel Morin, a mother of five, had left to run errands and to exercise on a local trail, but never returned home. The next day, law enforcement found her body off the trail in a culvert. 


An investigation involving local, state, and federal authorities was launched, and in June, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and charged in the rape and murder of Morin. 


Martinez-Hernandez, 23, crossed the U.S. southern border illegally in February 2023, according to Gahler.


“The current administration came in with a message of 'come to our country, the borders are open,' Gahler said, adding “way too many people heard that, too many criminals, too many terrorists listen loud and clear, and they did just that.” 


Gahler joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the investigation that led to Martinez-Hernandez’s arrest, and what the Biden administration can and should do to prevent the loss of future American lives at the hands of illegal immigrants. 


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State of the World from NPR - The Effects of Russia’s Advance in Northeastern Ukraine

In May, Russia was able to make significant advances in northeastern Ukraine as military aid from the U.S. and elsewhere was stalled. And while the aid eventually did reach the front lines, tempering Russian gains, the damage is still deeply felt in one small Ukrainian community. Our correspondent takes is to the town near the front line.

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