CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 02/24

Russia launches invasion of Ukraine. World leaders condemn Russia. Stocks sink as oil prices soar. CBS News Correspondents Charlie D'Agata in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Steve Kathan have today's World News Roundup.

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Headlines From The Times - How violence smashed Mexican avocados

Americans eat billions of dollars of Mexican avocados every year. Demand is such that drug cartels and other criminal elements have muscled in on the business, centered around the Mexican state of Michoacán. This reality got worldwide attention Super Bowl weekend, when the American government announced it was temporarily suspending any avocado imports from Mexico.

Today, we talk about this development — and why Americans are so obsessed with avocados in the first place.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times Mexico correspondent Leila Miller, and L.A. Times acting deputy food editor Daniel Hernandez.

More reading:

Avocado imports from Mexico are blocked. What does that mean for you?

 

How we got to peak avocado: Super Bowls to Mexico’s drug cartels

Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry

The Intelligence from The Economist - It begins: Russia invades Ukraine

Ukrainians woke to the sound of sirens. Volleys of cruise missiles, artillery, widespread reports of explosions: a large-scale invasion appears to be under way. Our correspondent in Kyiv reports on the mood and on what is known so far. And we examine the sharp rise in carjackings in America, asking why so many young people end up behind the wheel. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.24.22

Alabama

  • Governor Ivey signs bill into law that does not tax certain child tax credits
  • The aggravated riot act passes House despite controversy heads to state senate
  • AG Marshall sends letter to DHS secretary calling for him to resign
  • Houston County prosecutor suspended for messages to inmate he was trying
  • Madison city schools drop mask mandate after parents plan protest 

National

  • Biden admin confirms:Russian military has been in breakaway regions of the Ukraine for years
  • GOP congressman from TX sounds alarm on fraud within Covid relief funding
  • Senator Rand Paul to force vote on bill to remove mask mandates on airline flights
  • Idaho pastor speaks against Canadian prime minister for treatment of truckers
  • 2 Prosecutors step down from NY investigation into Trump's business practices

Lost Debate - Conversation with Dumpster Diver Matt Homewood

Ravi sits down with Matt Homewood, a dumper diver who is making it his mission to spread the word about the world's No. 1 solution to climate change: food waste. Born in the suburbs of west London, Matt started dumpster diving during a cross-country bike tour of the United States and later continued the trend while studying climate change in Denmark. Astonished by the sheer amount of perfectly suitable food heading to the landfill, Matt started an instagram account (@anurbanharvestor) to shed light on just how much supermarkets were tossing away. Matt and Ravi talk about what he’s learned about retail food waste and how our food system can become less wasteful.


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Village SquareCast - A Rethink on Thomas Jefferson with humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson

It's hard to reconcile that the author of the most central and sacred words in the American experiment—that all men are created equal—enslaved people.  Always game for a challenge (or possibly lacking the good judgment our mothers raised us to have), we've invited Jefferson scholar and host of "The Thomas Jefferson Hour" and author of the recently released "Repairing Jefferson's America" Clay Jenkinson to help us wrestle with a healthy and historically full picture of this man so deeply central to our story as a nation, in both its glory and its shame.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Trinity Test: The World’s First Atomic Explosion

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On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 am, 35 miles southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated. 


This was the culmination of the Manhattan Project, one of the largest, and most expensive programs in world history. 


Yet, just before the event, the scientists and engineers who worked on the project weren’t entirely sure it would work, and if it did, just what the results would be. 


Learn more about the Trinity Test, the world's first nuclear detonation, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - William Sites, “Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City” (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Poet and jazz band musician Sun Ra, born in 1914, is one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his band “Arkestra” appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, this keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology and that the planet Saturn was his true home. In his book, Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. William Sites contextualizes this visionary musician in his home on earth—specifically in Chicago’s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 Sun Ra lived and relaunched his career.

The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then still known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism, revisionist Christianity, and science fiction to jazz, blues, Latin dance music, and pop exotica—all this to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways.

Dr. William Sites is Associate Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. His fields of interest include urban and community studies, political economy, social movements, immigration, race, culture, social theory, and historical methods.

Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City. carrie-lynn.evans@lit.ulaval.ca

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