We have two major things to tell you about gun laws. There's a bipartisan bill that has now passed the senate and a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Also, what was once the most popular vaping product in the U.S. is now not allowed on the market. We'll explain the FDA's new ban.
Plus, how Instagram is verifying your age with a face scan, who went first in the NBA draft, and where the biggest pride parade in the U.S. is happening this weekend.
A new study out of England found the risk of Long COVID to be lower with the Omicron variant compared to Delta. That’s good news, but there are some caveats. Andy chats with one of the researchers behind the study, Dr. Claire Steves, who breaks down the risk of Long COVID based on age and vaccination status. Benjamin Mazer joins to discuss why the population of Americans experiencing Long COVID remains largely unseen, and why the amount of quality data from the U.K. on Long COVID far surpasses the U.S.
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The Supreme Court announced more rulings on Thursday — one of which dealt a huge blow to gun control advocates. The court struck down a New York State law that had a strict permitting process for people who wanted to carry concealed guns in public. Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s Strict Scrutiny, joins us to discuss what this ruling could mean for the rest of the country.
The January 6th House committee held its final hearing of the month on Thursday. The focus was on how former President Donald Trump tried to weaponize the Justice Department to push the Big Lie. Brian Beutler, Crooked’s editor-in-chief, joins us to unpack what we learned from this last month of hearings.
And in headlines: Ukraine took its first step toward joining the European Union, the Education Department will cancel $6 billion dollars of federal student loan debt, and Netflix laid off 300 employees.
Americans have had more than a year to experience President Joe Biden's administration.
If Biden's slouching poll numbers are any indication, Americans aren't thrilled with the president's performance.
High inflation featuring rising food and gas prices, missing baby formula, and a hyperfocus on race and gender ideology seemingly are beginning to grate on the public's nerves.
In the face of such issues, the common refrain from the president has been that it's not his fault.
To Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., this is just par for the course.
"This is the Biden administration. They lie through their teeth," Palmer says. "They're lying to the American people about why gasoline prices are so high. They're lying to the American people about inflation."
Palmer continues:
We had a hearing yesterday on the energy crisis, the price of gasoline. And I made the point [that] they first blamed it on the pandemic, then they blamed it on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, then they blamed it on energy company profits. It's not the pandemic. It's not Putin. It's not profits. It's Biden administration policy. And they're not going to change.
Palmer joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the multitude of Biden's failures and what Republicans plan to do to fix the mess.
We also cover these stories:
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court overturns New York state's strict concealed carry gun law, ruling it unconstitutional.
The Biden administration proposes significant changes to Title IX regulations based on gender ideology.
The Senate advances a gun control bill, avoiding a filibuster with a 65-34 vote.
Ukraine and Moldova become formal candidates for European Union membership.
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Jamstack makes developers’ lives “pretty peachy,” to borrow Salma’s phrase. Here, she explains what Jamstack is and how it makes the web (and developers) faster.
Salma helps “developers build stuff, learn things, and love what they do.” She loves helping people get into tech, where she started working after a career as a music teacher and comedian. Active in the developer community, she’s a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, a partnered Twitch streamer, and a relentless advocate for building a truly accessible web. Salma is the founder of Unbreak.tech, Women Who Stream Tech, and Women of Jamstack, projects that call for social change and equality in tech. Connect with her on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Phil is passionate about browser technologies, the web’s empowering properties, and ingenuity and simplicity in the face of overengineering. He has built web apps for Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, and is a coauthor of Modern Web Development on the Jamstack (O’Reilly, 2019). Connect with Phil on Twitter or LinkedIn, or read his blog posts for Netlify.
Two collections of short stories, both alike in playfulness in our fair podcast. The first is with Gwen Kirby whose debut collection of short stories is called, hilariously, Shit Cassandra Saw. It ranges from radioactive cockroaches to tapdancing Twizzlers. Kirby told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that writing this book was a cathartic experience. The second interview is with Helen Oyeyemi about her collection of short stories, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. The stories are fairy tales, though not traditional ones. Oyeyemi told NPR's Steve Inskeep that she likes fairy tales because they endure.
Pull out your art supplies because it's time to get crafty--with agar! At the intersection of biology and art lies a creative medium that's actually alive. Scientists and artists practice etching designs on petri dishes with bacterial paint that can grow and multiply.
Aaron Scott talks with science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce about her foray into the agar art world.
Have another craft suggestion? Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.
