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Plus: Sales of existing homes in the U.S. fall in January. And AI startup Anthropic is donating $20 million dollars to a group pushing for more AI regulation. Pierre Bienaimé hosts.
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Who would’ve thought? Last month, PepsiCo cut snack prices. McDonald's has been cutting prices, too, and said it's paying off. Yesterday, the company released better-than-expected results for the tail end of 2025. Also, big revisions to datasets like yesterday's jobs report are becoming more common in an economy undergoing big shifts, and Germany is looking to recruit foreign-born skilled workers as harsher immigration policy and rhetoric make the U.S. less appealing.
Authorities in Senegal are investigating a transnational network of criminals accused of committing henious crimes against children. The police in the west African country say that the network was operating in coordination with a French national who was arrested in France in April last year. The suspects are accused of paedophilia, pimping, rape of minors under 15, sodomy and intentional transmission of HIV/AIDS. And we speak with a founder and director of Kabusa Oriental Choir from Nigeria about their 'Valentine is coming' viral hit song. Presenter: Nkechi Ogbonna Producers: Keikantse Shumba and Chiamaka Dike Technical Producer: David Nzau Senior Producer: Charles Gitonga Editors: Samuel Murunga and Maryam Abdalla
Plus: Elon Musk announces a reorganization and staff departures at xAI. And Lenovo posts record revenue driven by device sales and AI. Julie Chang hosts.
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Vote counting is underway in Bangladesh after its first election since the protests that overthrew the authoritarian Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024. We hear about the circumstances surrounding these elections.
Also on the programme: in China, annual emissions of carbon dioxide fell for the first time last year. Lauri Myllyvirta of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, which compiled the data, explains the significance behind this, and the Berlin film festival opens tonight with an Afghanistan romcom. We hear from its writer, director and star, Shahrbanoo Sadat.
(Photo: Electoral workers count the votes, during the 13th general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 12 February, 2026. Credit: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)
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Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University, Dr. CBS, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the contraversy around Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half time performance and the limits of revolutionary art, the increasingly heated Jasmine Crockett/James Talarico Texas Senate primary & what everyone gets wrong about the viability of Black candidates, Trump's "Lion King" tweet featuring the Obama's as apes, & the latest attempt by Ezra Klein-stye centrists to brand their deregulatory agenda as a winning path forward for the Democratic Party -- a new "pro growth" political group called Next America Era.
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Jittery investors continue to punish stocks of companies that may (or may not) face major disruption from artificial intelligence. Last week, it was software firms, then insurance brokers. Now, it’s financial brokerages that offer people planning advice — the likes of Charles Schwab, Raymond James, and Ameriprise. But what's lost when we lose human capabilities in financial services? Plus, U.S. allies like Canada and the U.K. are increasingly turning to China for trade deals.
New possible clues found in Guthrie disappearance. Laser beam blamed for airport shutdown. Ukrainian olympian disqualified for war victims helmet. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast.
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From the BBC World Service: Russia has ordered a block on WhatsApp, the Kremlin confirmed. The app has more than 100 million users in Russia, who have now been cut off from the platform, and the Russian government is pushing users to download Max, Russia's state-owned messaging platform. Then, China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by 0.3% in 2025, the first full year to show a decline. And, as summers get hotter, Europeans are looking to "coolcation" in colder climes.