Help for covid-weary hospitals. The omicron variant upends holiday travel. A guilty verdict in the police killing of Daunte Wright. Correspondent Peter King has the CBS World News Roundup for Friday, December 24, 2021:
On this episode Jonathan Pelson joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book, "Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back."
A lot of great movies came out in 1986. Babes in Toyland was not one of them. But Mary Katharine and Vic watched the spectacular Christmas film, starring Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reaves, so you don't have to. Merry Christmas!
We're talking about a big boom for the stock market and what could be behind the upswing.
Also, a jury's verdict for an ex-cop who says she accidentally shot a man instead of tasing him.
Plus, what secrets could be unlocked by the world's most powerful telescope, how Amazon is paving the way for employee unions, and where you can go to shop and eat on this Christmas Eve and Christmas Day tomorrow.
It's the holiday season so we at Book Of The Day wanted to bring you two of our holiday favorites. The first is David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries, which first aired on Morning Edition in 1992 and has been an annual NPR tradition ever since. It's a hilarious recounting of his time as a department store elf named Crumpet. The second is some of our staff here at NPR reading the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, which you might know as The Night Before Christmas. Happy holidays "...and to all a good night!"
In Joe Biden’s interview with ABC News, the president sought absolution for his failure to anticipate another surge of Covid. That suggests the elite consensus around this virus really did believe their were behavioral rites that would ward off the disease, and, as a corollary, that contracting the disease is a personal failure.
Over the next few days we are going to be replaying some listener favorites from the last year, starting with what was without a doubt our most provocative and popular episode: a re-examination of the Central Park Karen.
Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, entitled white woman. But as the Central Park dog walker who went viral for calling the police on a black birdwatcher last year, she quickly became the paragon of the archetype.
Within 24 hours, Amy Cooper had been doxxed, fired from her job, and surrendered her dog. She wound up fleeing the country. She hasn’t spoken publicly since last summer. Until now.
In a wide-ranging interview with Kmele Foster, friend of Honestly and co-host of The Fifth Column, we revisit the story of what happened in the park that day. We show what the media intentionally left out of the story. And we examine the cost of mob justice.
Signs of hope in the fight against the omicron variant. The Supreme Court will weigh in on vaccine mandates. A Pennsylvania congresswoman -- carjacked. Correspondent Peter King has the CBS World News Roundup for Thursday, December 23, 2021: