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On The Gist, Trump gets laughs at the United Nations.
After a few eccentric comedy specials, Bo Burnham next turned to his sympathy for the anxieties of middle school girls, and made a movie. If Eighth Grade (starring Elsie Fisher) seems to imitate life so well, it’s because Burnham watched hundreds of vlogs made by today’s junior high generation.
In the Spiel, standards of proof in the Kavanaugh case.
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As a critical care doctor, Jessica Zitter has seen plenty of “Hail Mary” attempts to save dying patients go bad—attempts where doctors try interventions that don’t change the outcome, but do lead to more patient suffering. It’s left her distrustful of flashy medical technology and a culture that insists that more treatment is always better. But when a new patient goes into cardiac arrest, the case doesn’t play out the way Jessica expected. She finds herself fighting for hours to revive him—and reaching for a game-changing technology that uncomfortably blurs the lines between life and death.
The news to know for Tuesday, September 25th, 2018!
Today, we're talking about President Trump's speech to the UN General Assembly, what Judge Kavanaugh said in a TV interview and Fortune's list of The Most Powerful Women.
Plus: Weight Watchers name-change, Facebook dating and Scrabble words. Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned (click episodes) or see below...
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Sources:
Trump Addresses UN: PBS (watch live), FOX News, Vox
Kavanaugh on Camera: FOX News, AP
Rod Rosenstein: AP, USA Today, The Washington Post
National Voter Registration Day: Register to Vote Here or Here, Forbes
SiriusXM + Pandora: CNBC, WSJ, Digital Trends
Weight Watchers Change: Today, CNN, People
Facebook Portal: Cheddar, Fortune
Facebook Dating: WIRED, TechCrunch
Instagram Founders Leave: NYT, TechCrunch
Snapchat Shopping: The Verge, TechCrunch, Marketing Land
Microsoft Office AI Tools: The Verge, TechCrunch
Most Powerful Women: Fortune
New Scrabble Words: Reuters, CBS News
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Republicans respond to a second credible allegation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh by accusing Democrats of a smear campaign, and The New York Times may have given Trump the excuse he’s been looking for to fire Rod Rosenstein. Then Lovett and Dan talk to The New York Times’ Mark Leibovich about politics, Paul Ryan, and his new book “Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times."
On The Gist, how the breaking news machine bungled the Rod Rosenstein story.
In the interview, California is set to ban certain restaurants from serving straws unless customers ask for one. But given that straws represent a tiny fraction of the plastics choking our oceans, can initiatives like these really make a difference? Ban-the-straw advocate Dune Ives says targeting the straw is, in part, a way to move on to blocking other plastics from the world’s waste stream.
In the Spiel, the air is thick with terrible arguments both for and against Brett Kavanaugh.
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Kunta Kinte, Geordi LaForge, and Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton has given the world so much. On this episode, Brittany and Eric give him something back.
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The prize-winning novelist William Boyd has set his latest novel, Love Is Blind, at the turn of the 20th century. He tells Amol Rajan how his young Scottish protagonist travels across Europe in a tale of obsession, passion and music.
Lust and violence combine in Strauss's opera Salome in which a young princess performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Director Adena Jacobs has put a bold new spin on the story for English National Opera in her psychologically challenging interpretation.
Nietzsche may have written the famous phrase 'God is dead' but he also wrote movingly about love, guilt and hate. Biographer Sue Prideaux argues that Nietzsche is one of the most misunderstood philosophers. She explodes prevailing myths that he was a Nazi-sympathising, humourless misogynist.
And popular culture is under the spotlight in the film critic Peter Biskind's latest book, The Sky is Falling. He argues that zombies, androids and superheroes heralded the age of political extremism.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
How can we calculate excess mortality after a natural disaster?