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WSJ What’s News - Disney Names Its Theme Parks Chief as Bob Iger’s Successor

P.M. Edition for Feb. 3. Disney has chosen Josh D’Amaro to succeed Bob Iger as its CEO. WSJ entertainment reporter Ben Fritz discusses how the theme parks executive is likely to approach the role and how investors are reacting. Plus, the House approved a measure to end the partial government shutdown, but the negotiations over immigration enforcement aren’t over yet. And in Argentina, decades of financial crises mean people have kept a stash of billions of U.S. dollars. We hear from WSJ reporter Samantha Pearson about why Argentina’s President Javier Milei is trying to get citizens to put them in the bank. Alex Ossola hosts.


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Consider This from NPR - President Trump’s Kennedy Center plans are unclear, so far

President Trump wants to close the Kennedy Center for two years. He says a massive renovation is coming.


But so far, there are few details about what that renovation will look like, physically, and what it will mean to the nation’s performing arts center and its patrons.

David Graham has been sifting through the clues, and he talks with NPR about what is known, and what could be lost in the upheaval.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: The Flordelis Cult

Flordelis dos Santos de Souza is a politician and cultural icon in Brazil. For a time, she and her husband Anderson do Carmo were an evangelical power couple - along with their more than 50 adopted and biological children. In June of 2019, Anderson was murdered. The family said it was a robbery gone wrong. The investigators disagree.

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The Journal. - The Dollar Is Weaker. Is That a Good Thing?

Over the last year, the dollar has been declining in value. And last week, President Donald Trump said he wasn’t concerned about the recent slide. WSJ’s Greg Ip explains how a weaker dollar fits into Trump’s broader economic strategy to boost U.S. growth. Jessica Mendoza hosts. 


Further Listening:

- Who Is the New Fed Chair?

- It's Almost 2026. How’s the Economy?

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State of the World from NPR - Fallout in the U.K. over the Epstein files

While there has been political turmoil in the U.S. over the latest release of photos and emails in the “Epstein files”, the consequences in the U.K. have been more concrete. There, a prince had already been stripped of his title over his connections to the late accused sex trafficker. Now a member of the House of Lords has been forced to step down. We get the latest from London.

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1A - ICE And The ICE Watchers

Thousands of people have signed up to document and protest the actions of immigration agents in Minnesota.

They say they are legal observers, exercising their constitutional rights. The government claims they’re impeding the lawful work of a federal agency.

Where is the line between observer and disrupter? And what are the limits to how federal agents can respond?

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The Source - What we owe to the 1963 protesters for civil rights

On Juneteenth we look back at the fight for civil rights in America. Historian Peniel E. Joseph discusses his new book Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution." He reflects on the power of protest and community organizing and how segregationists and other bigots in power were pushed out of the way. And what this means today.