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State of the World from NPR - Talk of tougher sanctions, Ukrainian bakery reopens amid continuous war
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Brussels for NATO meetings today. State Department spokesman Ned Price talks to Leila Fadel about objectives that could include tougher sanctions on Russia. And in Ivano-Frankivsk, in the western part of Ukraine, a bakery that shuttered for two weeks during the war has resumed business. As Scott Detrow reports, it even employs Ukrainians displaced from other parts of the country.
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Headlines From The Times - The lawyer behind Trump’s Jan. 6 attack
Before Jan. 6, 2021, John Eastman was known as a fringe figure in conservative circles. But now, Eastman’s not so fringe anymore.
A California-based federal judge said Trump probably committed felonies in connection with the events of that day. And he says that Eastman was the person Trump chose to find “a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Today, in the second part of a miniseries on the Jan. 6 investigation, we get into Eastman’s career — and what his emails and actions on Jan. 6 might mean for Trump’s future.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times Justice Department reporter Sarah D. Wire
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How a California lawyer became a focal point of the Jan. 6 investigation
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John Eastman, Trump’s lawyer on overturning election, under investigation by California Bar
CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 04/06
New stories of horror emerge from Ukraine as the US prepares more sanctions. Deadly tornadoes in the south. Ed Sheeran's copyright win. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.6.22
Alabama
- AG Steve Marshall joins lawsuit against DHS for failure to enforce immigration law
- AL House could vote on vulnerable child act this week before ending session
- An Athens man charged with seeking sex with underage teen through dating app
- Non profit in AL sending groups to Ukraine to help those displaced by the war
- Donald Trump plans to hold rally in Birmingham this coming June 18th
National
- Debate about SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson held in US senate
- Special counsel John Durham makes another court filing in his investigation
- Medical researcher issues findings on Covid 19 vaccine after studying 30 million cases
- Elon Musk now confirmed to sit on Board of Directors for Twitter
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Zero’s intolerance: Shanghai’s messy lockdown
China’s zero-covid policy is being stretched to breaking point as the virus makes its way through the city. Supplies are low, residents are angry and there is no end in sight. The debate about air conditioning in America’s sweltering prisons will only heat up further. And how a dispute about time from exactly a century ago remains timely today. Additional audio provided courtesy of Matthew Florianz. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
First Things Podcast - Algis Valiunas on Leopardi
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Algis Valiunas to talk about his article from the April print edition, “Nihilism for the Ironhearted.” They discuss the tragically short life and the brilliant poetic output of Giacomo Leopardi, contrasting his bleak nihilism with the more life-affirming nihilism found in Nietzsche and Vattimo.
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 Bonus: Perry Zheng, Cash Flow Portal
Perry Zheng graduated in 2010 from Duke University. He became a software engineer, working for big name companies like Amazon, Twitter and Lyft. During his time at Lyft, he started tinkering with Real Estate investment, buying single family dwellings here and there. Outside of tech and real estate, he likes to travel a lot, and find the best food around. When asked what was the best restaurant he'd been to, he promptly noted that Le Bernardin in New York City was top notch.
Once he had a few single family dwellings in his portfolio, he decided to syndicate a deal for a multi family complex. In doing this, he quickly realized how complicated the process was to get this done. He decided to apply his tech knowledge and create something to solve his problem.
This is the creation story of Cash Flow Portal.
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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Who By Fire: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war broke out in Israel.
The Yom Kippur War would become the bloodiest in Israel’s young history—and Cohen was there to witness it. As the war broke out, he left his home on the Greek island of Hydra to fly into the warzone.
Leonard Cohen never said much about why he went to the front. What we know is that in the months that followed, he would write “Who By Fire.” Five decades later, on Spotify and in synagogue, you can still hear the echoes of this trip.
So what was it that happened in the desert in October of 1973 between this depressed musician and these too young soldiers going off to battle? How did it remake Leonard Cohen? How did it transform those who heard him play? And how did the war transform Israel itself?
Those are just some of the questions Matti Friedman explains in his beautiful new book Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.
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Oprahdemics - Oprah And The LA Riots
In 1992, in the midst of the LA riots, Oprah moved her show to Los Angeles to tackle the ongoing fallout of the Rodney King verdict. The result? One of the most memorable - and boisterous - Oprah episodes.
Special guest: Elizabeth Hinton, historian and author of “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s”
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