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All the news you need to know for Wednesday, January 31st, 2018!
Today: what President Trump said in the State of the Union, including his order for Guantanamo Bay, and what to know about three corporate giants creating a new health care nonprofit.
Plus: the false alarm in Hawaii wasn't an accident after all, Tinder lost a lawsuit and the super blue blood moon happens this morning.
All that and much more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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On The Gist, the pomposity and circumstantial evidence of the State of the Union.
Janesville, Wisconsin, had the oldest operating GM assembly plant in the country until 2008. The factory’s closure left thousands of employees in the lurch. Amy Goldstein’s book Janesville: An American Story describes the choices facing three families as they pick up the pieces of a busted local economy.
In the Spiel, the right things to say when you’re being nuked and the right way to say them.
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All the news you need to know for Tuesday, January 30th, 2018!
Today: President Trump will give his first State of the Union address (+ the typo on the tickets) and what to know about a classified memo.
Plus: a baseball team's controversial change, Amazon's "The Spheres" and who will play Mr. Rogers on the big screen.
All that and much more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
For links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.
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On The Gist, get your clutching pearls ready. Russia alleges that the U.S. is trying to interfere in its election.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been politically precocious since well before his own sports scholarship at UCLA. His latest column for the Guardian argues it's "time to pay the tab for America's college athletes.” He says student players should unionize.
In the Spiel, the tactics that responsible Republicans use to communicate their potential opposition: They speak in their home-state argot.
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In this week's bonus, Brittany and Eric talk about eating spring mix, why they're proud of Ciara, and what a season of American Crime Story about The Nod would look like.
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The media lowers the bar for Trump’s State of the Union, Democrats look for an economic message, and the Republican effort to shut down the Mueller investigation continues apace. Then DeRay McKesson joins to talk about restoring voting rights in Florida, and Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz sits down with Jon and Tommy to talk immigration and 2018.