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All the news to know for Thursday, July 12th, 2018!
Today, we're talking about everything from what's happened so far at the NATO Summit to Twitter kicking off fake followers.
Plus: Kylie Jenner is almost the youngest self-made billionaire ever.
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.
Then, hang out after the news for the bonus Three Question Thursday interview. This week we're talking about the U.S. Supreme Court and President Trump's pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
For more info and links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.
On The Gist, “Brett” has got to be the lamest name among Supreme Court justices (or nominees).
“If Jim Brown’s the past, Michael Bennett’s the future.” So says sports writer Dave Zirin, who recently published both a biography of Brown and co-authored Bennett’s memoir. Why the contrast between these two football players? Michael Bennett is a deliberate progressive, while Jim Brown’s work to save young men from gang life is marred by a history of domestic abuse. Zirin’s books are Jim Brown: Last Man Standing and Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.
In the Spiel, Rep. Jim Jordan picked the wrong hill to die on.
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All the news to know for Wednesday, July 11th, 2018!
Today, we're talking about everything from the NATO Summit and the successful cave rescue to Facebook's augmented reality ads and free slurpees.
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, Trump isn’t strategic or defiant, he’s just rapacious.
When discussing #MeToo, the focus is often on the power that men exerted when sexually harassing women, but are their sexual motivations getting left out of the conversation? Emily Yoffe wrote about this in her new piece “Understanding Harvey,” for the Highline, and joins us to discuss.
In the Spiel, Hollywood has taught us that cars explode, but in reality they hardly ever do. Shouldn’t movies teach us more practical lessons about how to handle crises?
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