Month: March 2021

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The NewsWorthy - More Severe Storms, Giant Shipping Mishap & Olympic Torch Relay- Thursday, March 25th, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, March 25th, 2021!

We're talking about:

  • the southern U.S. bracing for another tornado outbreak just eight days after the last one
  • Vice President Harris' first major task: she's taking on the border surge
  • how one stuck ship could disrupt trade all over the world
  • what part of the Olympics has just begun 
  • where you can now buy a car with bitcoin
  • the ins and outs of vaccine passports

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes to read more about any of the stories mentioned.

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Sources:

Another Tornado Outbreak Possible: NBC News, WaPo, USA Today, NWS

Harris to Lead Border Efforts: Politico, Axios, AP, NBC News

First Senate-confirmed Transgender Official: NY Times, ABC News, NPR, Vox

Suez Canal Blocked: BBC, NY Times, WaPo, WSJ

Olympic Torch Relay Begins: Reuters, NBC Sports, CNN, WSJ, Olympic Games, Watch the Live Stream

Facebook: China Hacked Uyghurs: WSJ, AP, NBC News, Facebook

Uber Expands Prescription Deliveries: Stat, WSJ, Reuters, Uber

Buy a Tesla with Bitcoin: CNBC, Elon Musk, Tesla

Disney+ Price Hike: Variety, The Verge, Deadline

Thing to Know Thursday: Vaccine Passports: AP, Smithsonian, Cnet, Newsweek

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The Daily Signal - What This Former NYPD Detective Has to Say About Attacks on Police

Rob O’Donnell, a former detective with the New York Police Department, was among first responders to the terrorist attacks that brought down the towers of the World Trade Center in 2001 as well as to the terrorist bombing there eight years earlier.


O'Donnell joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about what that was like.


"A few days before 9/11, I had a homicide [investigation], which probably helped me not be there as soon as I would have been because I ended up working on 9/10 to about 2 in the morning, where I normally would have been at work at 7," O’Donnell recalls.


"I responded straight down to ground zero on 9/11," he says. "And if I would have been at the police station, I would have been there that much sooner."


O'Donnell also discusses the violent attacks on police and other law enforcement across the nation, especially over the past year, related racial tensions, and potential reforms in police departments.


We also cover these stories:


  • Republican and Democrat lawmakers clash during a Senate hearing on Democrats' bill to nationalize elections.
  • Senate Democrats Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois say they won’t oppose Biden administration nominees. 
  • Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the Biden administration is responsible for the influx of migrants to America’s southern border. 



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Curious City - The Environmental Impacts Of The Chicago River Reversal

We dug into the Curious City archives and pulled out one of our favorites, a story about the Chicago River. Chicago’s bold maneuver to reverse the Chicago River diverted sewage away from Lake Michigan, allowing Chicago’s continued growth. But it was hardly a perfect solution. The effects of the groundbreaking engineering feat are still being felt today -- even as far as the Gulf of Mexico. Reporter Carson Vaughan has that story.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Local Innovator Uses Mushroom Power To Reduce Waste, Save The Planet

U.S. Landfills are at 85 percent filled, and that is a big problem because we’ll continue to keep on making trash, but won’t have anywhere to put it. Today on Reset, we have an innovator who is breaking down and recycling our waste using an unlikely method-mushrooms! For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.
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Consider This from NPR - Colorado Shooting Reveals Limits Of State Gun Control — And Steels Activists For More

Colorado has universal background checks, a red flag law and the city of Boulder recently passed an assault weapons ban. None of it was enough to stop a man from shooting and killing 10 people at a Boulder grocery store this week.

State Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son was killed in the 2012 Aurora movie theatre shooting, reacts to the events of this week — and tells NPR why he still believes incremental action at the state level can help prevent gun violence.

Additional editing help in this episode from Bente Birkeland of Colorado Public Radio.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Bears Fuming as Elon Opens Tesla Purchases With Bitcoin

Tesla is allowing U.S. customers to buy vehicles with bitcoin, and it is not changing the crypto back to fiat.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.

Today on the Brief:

  • Robinhood IPO incoming
  • Competing bitcoin price predictions 
  • Yellen and Powell’s latest testimony on economic growth


Our main discussion:

Elon Musk announced this morning Tesla’s program for buying its cars with bitcoin: 

  • Says the company is running Bitcoin network nodes
  • Says Tesla won’t convert back to fiat but will hold bitcoin
  • Expanding the program internationally coming soon


NLW breaks down the hater response from the Tesla and Bitcoin sides and argues that much more significant are the other CEOs – like that of buzzy bed startup Eight Sleep – who are following suit.


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