Evidence of new atrocities in Ukraine. The Senate confirms the Supreme Court's first black, female justice. Tiger Woods roars at the Masters. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Friday, April 8, 2022:
Black people are two and a half times more likely to be hospitalized, and 1.7 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites.
That stat from the CDC is shocking. But it’s not exactly surprising. Not to people like L.A. Times reporter Marissa Evans.
Her father, Gary Evans, is now one of nearly 97,000 Black people in America who’ve died from COVID-19 complications.
And while Marissa is willing to accept her father’s death, on today’s episode, she says she refuses to accept that losing all these Black men is normal ... or OK.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times healthcare reporter Marissa Evans
Through ineptitude and bad timing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa—known as Gota—has driven his country toward ruin. Its people want him out. Russian forces have occupied Kherson since early March. We hear a report from the ground about life under foreign occupation. And tasting awamori, a Japanese spirit that distillers may lift from the doldrums simply by watering it down. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
If you read Common Sense, you know that the best day of the week is Friday, when Nellie Bowles delivers us all the news from the week that was.
This Friday, we bring you an Honestly special: TGIF! This time built just for your ears and brought to you by America’s favorite lesbians: Nellie and dear friend of the pod, Katie Herzog.
Featuring: Elon Musk v. Twitter, BLM corruption, inflation, “don’t say gay,” plus special guest Jeff Ross, America’s Roastmaster General, on jokes about alopecia. Including his own.
Slim-fit is out, wedge-cut is in. So Levi’s whipped up a new store feature designed to be a Profit Puppy. SoFi dropped 7% on word your student payments got deferred, again — they’re frozen for the summer. And Walmart’s new HQ design is going big and going home (spoiler: Meditation Park + 3 swimming pools).
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Around 1887, a Polish ophthalmologist set out to create a universal language. A language that could be a second language for everyone around that world that no one country or one people would control.
It was a good idea, but things didn’t quite pan out as he had hoped, and along the way, there was shockingly violent resistance to the new language.
Learn more about Esperanto, how it was developed and its status in the world today, on this episode of ĉio ĉie ĉiutage.
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Taylor Lorenz, a former content cop who went after creators and now writes on the lives of internet-famous teens for a living, claims she’s really the victim of online attacks. And Senate Democrats are convinced that newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson faced worse treatment on the Senate floor than Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But Mary Katharine and Vic question who the real victim is here.
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00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
11:13 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
11:18 - President Barack Obama visits the White House to tout improvements to the Affordable Care Act
22:36 - University of Chicago student peppers The Atlantic columnist Anne Applebaum with questions on the mainstream media’s Hunter Biden laptop story coverup
39:34 - Taylor Lorenz says she’s bullied for her reporting on internet teens
46:57 - Senate Democrats allege newly-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson faced worse treatment than Justice Brett Kavanaugh
49:00 - Bojangles to give out gas gift cards to customers
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