Month: October 2020

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The NewsWorthy - Vaccine Setback 2.0, Barrett Faces Grilling & iPhone 12 Launch- Tuesday, October 13th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020!

We have updates about:

  • a hold on another vaccine trial and how a different one is getting teenagers involved
  • the first COVID-19 reinfection in the U.S.
  • a contentious week of hearings for the Supreme Court nominee
  • how presidential candidates are spending their final weeks before Election Day
  • Facebook reversing its policy concerning Holocaust deniers
  • Amazon Prime Day
  • the newest iPhone being revealed today

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.TheNewsWorthy.com under the section titled 'Episodes' to read more about any of the stories mentioned or see sources below...

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Sources:

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Trial Paused: Stat, Axios, AP

Pfizer to Start Testing Vaccine on Children: AP, Business Insider

First U.S. COVID Reinfection: NPR, Bloomberg, WSJ, The Lancet

SCOTUS Confirmation Hearings Cont’d: AP, NY Times, WSJ, WaPo, CNN

Trump Tests Negative, Holds Rally: AP, Reuters, FOX News, Conley Memo

Biden on the Campaign Trail: AP, WSJ, Columbus Dispatch

GA Early Voting Record Turnout: AP, AJC, NPR

Microsoft Tackles Hacking Operation: CNN, WaPo, Reuters, Microsoft

Facebook to Ban Holocaust Denial Posts: USA Today, WSJ, WaPo, FB, Survey, History from The Atlantic, History.com

New iPhones to be Unveiled: USA Today, The Verge, Reuters, Watch the Livestream

Amazon Prime Day: Amazon, CNN, WSJ, CNBC

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The Daily Signal - What to Watch for During Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Confirmation Hearings

The second day of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings begin Tuesday morning. GianCarlo Canaparo, a Heritage Foundation legal fellow and co-host of the "SCOTUS 101" podcast, joins our show to discuss what to watch for and what questions he hopes Senate Judiciary Committee members will ask Barrett. 


Canaparo also previews how he and Heritage colleague Amy Swearer plan to cover the confirmation hearings on "SCOTUS 101."


Also on today’s show, we share a “good news story” about The Daily Signal’s recent trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to see how the community there is coming together to recover after rioters burned and looted many of the city's businesses at the end of August. 


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Read Me a Poem - “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats

Amanda Holmes reads W. B. Yeats’s poem, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Where do game developers fit in the world of software?

Has there ever been a gaming company that brought more joy to the world than Nintendo? They were making playing cards back in 1889 and continue to find ways to be different but fun with inventions like the Switch and Labo.

Sara gives us some the scoop on Rimworld. Check out the trailer here and feel free to lend your skill to a new mod if you have ideas for how to improve it.

A Excel sheet meltdown led to critical health data about the pandemic being lost in the UK.  Rows can go to millions, but they used columns.

For those of us who need our reading glasses to see the tiny emoji people post in Slack, Paul has come to your rescue. He asked for the ability to zoom In on Twitter, the CEO of Slack co-signed, and boom, we got a new feature.

We discuss what other new Slack features might take off: stories, push-to-talk, and sneakers.

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Opening Arguments - OA429: This Court Will End Marriage Equality

As we say often... there's no sugar coating this one. Alito and Thomas shouted their pathetic homophobia from the bench in a concurrence recently. What was the ruling, you ask? No ruling. It was a concurrence on a denial of cert for a case involving - wait for it - Kim Davis. Yes, that Kim Davis. The case was so stupid that not even Alito and Thomas could get behind it, but they went out of their way to yell the quiet part as loudly as they could. Andrew has the full breakdown of what happened. Oh, uh, apropos of nothing... WE NEED TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY AND THE SENATE BACK.

In happier news, Naomi Andrews is here to tell us all about the Access for All Conference Andrew will be speaking in! (Use code: openargs)

Links: Obergefell, Kim Davis's Idiot Case, Zablocki v. Redhail (1978).

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Chapo Trap House - 462 – Feelin’ Like Chera feat. Tim Robbins (10/12/20)

Will, Matt and Felix absolutely refuse to go out like Stan Chera. We discuss Trump’s ongoing battle against COVID and a bizarrely chaste sext scandal around candidate for North Carolina senate Cal Cunningham. Then, Will and Matt are joined by actor and director Tim Robbins to talk satire in the age of Trump and his new radio play podcast “Bobbo Supreme”. You can find Tim's new pod here: https://www.patreon.com/TimRobbinsPresents
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Pod Save America - “Willy Wonka and The Covid Factory.”

The Trump-Covid ticket returns to the campaign trail despite unanswered questions about the President’s condition, Senate Republicans revolt against Covid relief negotiations between The White House and Nancy Pelosi, and Democrats make the first day of the Amy Coney Barrett hearings about her opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Then Congresswoman Katie Porter talks to Jon Lovett about the pandemic, inequality, and the 2020 election.

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Consider This from NPR - An NPR Investigation Into Lethal Injection: Why It Could Amount To Torture

Lethal injection is commonly thought of as the most painless method of execution. But now many lawyers and doctors are looking inside the bodies of executed inmates and making the case that lethal injection could amount to torture.

To take a closer look at this claim, NPR producer Noah Caldwell and a team at All Things Considered obtained more than 300 inmate autopsies through Freedom of Information Act requests. It's the largest collection of lethal injection autopsies in the U.S. They found that more than 80% of the inmates may have experienced the sensation of drowning.

Read and listen to the entire investigation here.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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