Consider This from NPR - A severe autism advocate responds to RFK Jr.’s research initiative

About one in 31 children in the U.S. has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, according to CDC data released this month.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed these findings, he declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame.

Which of Kennedy's remarks rang true to those in the autism community?

Jill Escher is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism, and had both gratitude and criticism for the new initiative.

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Consider This from NPR - A severe autism advocate responds to RFK Jr.’s research initiative

About one in 31 children in the U.S. has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, according to CDC data released this month.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed these findings, he declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame.

Which of Kennedy's remarks rang true to those in the autism community?

Jill Escher is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism, and had both gratitude and criticism for the new initiative.

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Consider This from NPR - A severe autism advocate responds to RFK Jr.’s research initiative

About one in 31 children in the U.S. has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, according to CDC data released this month.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed these findings, he declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame.

Which of Kennedy's remarks rang true to those in the autism community?

Jill Escher is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism, and had both gratitude and criticism for the new initiative.

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State of the World from NPR - Preparing to Pick a New Pope

Pope Francis was laid to rest in a funeral ceremony over the weekend and next week the College of Cardinals will convene their conclave at the Vatican to choose his successor. In this episode we speak to one of those cardinals, who will attend his first papal conclave. And we go inside the room where it all happens, the Sistine Chapel famous for its ceiling of frescos by Michelangelo.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: One Card To Rule Them All, Pop Culture and Space, Horrors of Kenyan Death Cults, and More

History's largest credit card merger looms on the horizon. Commentary on not-quite-space and a celebrity named Katy Perry. Ben takes the crew around the globe to learn more about wildlife piracy, the horrors of Kenyan cults, and the fascinating web of fentanyl, casinos, China and Mexican drug cartels. All this this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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1A - ‘If You Can Keep It’: America In Constitutional Crisis

Big news is happening at a breakneck pace these days. But on the cusp of the 100th day of President Donald Trump's second administration, let's take a pause to go back in time to Sept. 30, 1962.

On that day, President John F. Kennedy sent U.S. military forces to protect James Meredith on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Meredith was the first Black student admitted to the school. That night, JFK addressed the nation from the White House.

In his address JFK describes a moment when the word of the Constitution no longer prevails, is by most definitions a "constitutional crisis."

Some of you think that moment is here.

As part of our weekly series on the state of our democracy, "If You Can Keep It," we're posing a big question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?

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Motley Fool Money - The Compounding Consumer Crunch

Lower income consumers are already struggling, and the end of the de minimis exemption will make things even harder for them.


(00:21) David Meier and Dylan Lewis discuss:


- Domino’s earnings sending the same warning signals as Chipotle – lower income eaters aren’t ordering as often..

- Temu and Shein pushing tariff increases to American consumers over the weekend.

- Old Dominion Freight Lines and Saia signaling fewer goods are coming into the U.S.


(15:53) Motley Fool Analyst Anthony Schiavone and Ricky Mulvey take a look at homebuilders and the four major economic forces hitting those stocks. .


Companies discussed: DPZ, CMG, PDD, SAIA, ODFL, DHI, DFH.


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: David Meier

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl


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The Journal. - A Syrian Father’s Journey to Find His Son

Suleiman al-Youssef’s son, Shadi, has been missing since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. After the Assad regime was overthrown, Suleiman found new hope when he discovered a video of a man who looked like his son outside the country’s most notorious prison. WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon on Suleiman’s search for his son and Syria’s thousands of other missing loved ones like him. Kate Linebaugh hosts.


Further Listening:

- Assad’s Regime Falls. What’s Next For Syria? 

- Ten Days That Shifted Power in Syria 


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Marketplace All-in-One - The Canadian Dispatch

On the show today, Kimberly joins us from an Ontario polling station on Canada’s election day. We’ll get into how President Trump’s trade war has shaped the federal election and may boost voter turnout. Plus, what Canadians are saying about boycotting American products and canceling their U.S. vacations.


Here’s everything we talked about today:


"Canadians vote today after fierce campaign shaped by Trump" from CBC News


"Canada votes in an election upended by Trump. Here’s what to know." from The Washington Post 


"Canada’s Political Landscape Upended by Trump, Trudeau and Tariffs" from The New York Times


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The Bulwark Podcast - S2 Ep1030: Bill Kristol: Creepy and Wrong

The Trump administration keeps showing it's sooo tough on immigration that it deported three U.S. citizen children, arrested the wife of a member of the Coast Guard because her visa expired, and perp-walked an allegedly immigrant-concealing Wisconsin judge in handcuffs—instead of showing her the kind of deference Trump received over the course of his four indictments. Plus, the wildly wealthy jackasses behind Trump, the missing cargo ships at the ports, and Scott Pelley at 60 Minutes shows how it's done.

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
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