Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Water Crisis, A Mysterious Death, Nationwide Food Supply Disasters

Across the country, a series of bizarre disasters -- from fires to outright plane crashes -- prompts public speculation that someone, somewhere, may be conspiring to destroy the US food supply. A woman is found dead after a run-in with a cop accused of corruption. A megadrought in the western US forces communities to consider some extreme decisions: water, or electricity? All this and more in this week's Strange News.

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Headlines From The Times - California mulls a four-day workweek

More and more companies worldwide are making the switch to a 32-hour work week. And in California, there’s even talk of making it the law. Today, we discuss what the State Legislature is discussing. And we hear from people at companies that already have done that. And guess what? Worker productivity, at least according to them, is as great as ever. 

Read the transcript. 

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times breaking news reporter Hayley Smith, and Andrew Barnes, 4 Day Week Global co-founder

More reading:

Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours. Here’s what you need to know

Editorial: What if every week was a four-day workweek?

Working 7 to 5—Four days a week : Companies are increasingly turning to a compressed workweek to meet anti-pollution laws and to recruit workers.

CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 05/09

Vladimir Putin tries to justify the war in Ukraine as Russia celebrates victory in World War II. Senate abortion vote. Mystery surrounds tourist deaths in the Bahamas. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.9.22

Alabama

  • AL ban on transgenderism for minors officially in effect, while Judge works on ruling
  • Inmate dies from wounds caused by another inmate attack at Kilby Correctional
  • Day 11 of escaped inmate Casey White on the run with CO Vicky White
  • 2 arrests made re: pain clinics and opioid prescriptions in North Alabama
  • GOP primary candidate for Secretary of State has plan to utilize veterans in elections


National

  • Pro Abortion Protestors show up at homes of 2 SCOTUS justices over weekend
  • Speaker of the House calls any overturn of Roe v. Wade an insult to women
  • US to join other G7 countries in further ban on importing Russian oil
  • 3 Americans suddenly die at a Bahamas resort, another is hospitalized
  • FL Governor signs bill that gives 1.2 billion dollars in tax cuts to Floridians
  • George Soros gives 1 million to Stacy Abrams second attempt to be GA governor
  • True the Vote about to release names and addresses of ballot trafficking "stash houses"

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