Today, NPR Health Correspondent Allison Aubrey offers perspective on how to think about the latest coronavirus news. On one hand, half of U.S. adults have been vaccinated and as of this week, everyone 16 years old and up is eligible to be vaccinated. At the same time, the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been paused and many are still hesitant to get vaccinated.
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The NewsWorthy - Jury Deliberates, Historic Helicopter Flight & ‘Doge Day’- Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
The news to know for Tuesday, April 20th, 2021!
We have updates about:
- Derek Chauvin's murder trial coming to a close: the jury is now deliberating and Minneapolis is preparing for unrest
- where millions of Americans are bracing for spring snow and historically cold temperatures
- another major milestone on Mars being compared to the first airplane flight on Earth
- the controversy around a so-called Super League in soccer
- how Facebook is going all-in on audio
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.
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Sources:
Chauvin Trial Deliberations: Minneapolis Star Tribune, NY Times, NBC News, Fox News
Ofc. Sicknick Cause of Death: WaPo, Fox News, AP, Politico, Capitol Police
Walter Mondale Dies: Politico, Axios, NY Times, AP, President Carter Statement
Snow and Record Cold Coming: USA Today, CNN, The Weather Channel, NWS
Mars Helicopter’s First Flight: NASA, Nat’l Geographic, NY Times, AP, BBC
Europe’s New Super League: BBC, CBS Sports, AP, Reuters, Boris Johnson, Kensington Royal
Facebook Unveils New Audio Products: Axios, Techcrunch, Reuters, CNBC, Facebook
In God We Lust - Liberty… or Libertine? | 2
When Jerry Falwell Jr takes over at Liberty University in 2007 he has big shoes to fill: his father’s. The Reverend Jerry Falwell was a famous and controversial evangelical minister who lived by a strict code of conduct. Can Jerry Jr. follow in his father’s footsteps, or will he make his own rules?
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What A Day - Amazon The Defensive
President Biden held bipartisan meetings yesterday to find some middle ground for his massive infrastructure bill. On the left, AOC and Bernie Sanders introduced their own version of the bill with a larger commitment to public housing. But passing any infrastructure bill will likely require budget reconciliation as long as the filibuster remains in place.
The union that sought to represent Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, formally filed objections last Friday to the results of the election there. Workers voted overwhelmingly not to unionize, but the union says that result should be thrown out because Amazon illegally interfered in the process. We discuss their argument.
And in headlines: attorneys deliver closing arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin, India experiences an explosive surge of COVID-19 cases, and President Biden will consider making cigarettes less addictive.
Show Notes –
Read the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union's filing against Amazon for the recent unionization vote – https://bit.ly/3aqyI0J
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For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday.
In God We Lust - The Menage-A-Trois Carnival | 1
A young pool attendant at a Miami Beach hotel, meets a couple there on vacation and an affair begins. The young man doesn’t know who they are at first, but after seeing them several more times, he finds out the couple is far more powerful than he imagined. In turn, the couple promises his life is about to change.
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The Daily Signal - What to Expect at Senate Panel’s Hearing on Election-Integrity Law Cast as ‘Jim Crow’
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss a purported “assault on the right to vote.”
The hearing, dubbed “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,” comes as the far left continues to criticize Georgia's new election-integrity law.
Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the 2018 race for governor of Georgia and the founder of Fair Fight Action, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., are scheduled to testify at the hearing.
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what to expect at Tuesday’s committee hearing. The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.
Von Spakovsky also unpacks the arguments for and against Georgia’s new election-integrity law, and explains why the bill should not be likened to Jim Crow laws.
We also cover these stories:
- Lawyers deliver closing arguments in the final day of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin trial in the death of George Floyd.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs anti-rioting legislation into law.
- The Biden administration orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection to stop using the terms “illegal alien” and “assimilation.”
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The Improvement Association - Chapter Three: ‘The Ballad of the Nursing Home Ballots’
Zoe delves into one of the most serious allegations against the Bladen Improvement PAC: an accusation about stealing votes from vulnerable people that goes back 10 years. In trying to track down the veracity of this particularly persistent rumor, she comes to understand how and why election cheating allegations are so sticky.
Chapo Trap House - Blowback Season 2 Episode 1 – “The Jupiter Menace”
Check out the first episode of Season 2 of Blowback.
The new season of Blowback is on Stitcher Premium, and you can get a month free if you go to stitcher.com/premium, select a monthly plan and use the promo code: BLOWBACK. Once you sign up you can listen on your browser, or you can download the Stitcher app on your phone
Chapo Trap House - 516 – Time Cuba feat. Brendan James & Noah Kulwin (4/20/21)
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Brendan and Noah return to the show to discuss BLOWBACK, SEASON 2. We talk about the history of the Cuban revolution and the American response, the involvement of the mafia and U.S. clandestine services, and ongoing tensions in U.S.-Cuban relations. Then, we have classic reading series wherein Thomas Friedman reflects on two decades of being wrong about Afghanistan. Get flat, folks!
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - One in four visitors to Stack Overflow copies code
You can check out our deep dive into the copy paste data here. We saw over 40 million copies in the two weeks worth of activity we analyzed.
Kyle Pollard graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia and worked as a computer technician and programmer for the City of Prince George in Canada. You can find him on Github, Twitter, and his website.
There’s lots of info about Cassidy’s various projects at cassidoo.co. You can catch her coding live at @cassidoo, Thursdays at 12:30 PT/2:30 Central/3:30 Eastern.
Our lifeboat badge winner of the week is TJ Crowder, who answered the question: How can I see the source of built-in JavaScript functions?