Month: January 2023

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The NewsWorthy - Ex-FBI Official Arrested, New Vaccine Plan & M&M’s Mascots Replaced- Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The news to know for Tuesday, January 24, 2023!

We have new details about two shooting rampages in California in a matter of days as authorities try to figure out what motivated the gunmen.

Also, a man who once had one of the most important anti-spy jobs in the U.S. government was arrested. We'll tell you who he was accused of working with while working with the FBI.

Plus, a new vaccine strategy from the FDA, another big investment in artificial intelligence, and why the M&M's brand is getting rid of its mascots for now.

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Pod Save America - “Biden’s Lawless Raid on Biden.”

Joe Biden says goodbye to his chief of staff and hello to more FBI agents. Donald Trump plots his Twitter comeback and struggles to get endorsements. Rep. Ruben Gallego enters the 2024 Arizona Senate race. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stops by Crooked HQ to talk about the upcoming year in Congress. And the guys play a new game called Take Take Don’t Tell Me.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Decent People’ is a murder mystery grappling with race in the segregated South

In a small North Carolina town in 1976, three siblings are shot to death. That's the mystery at the center of De'Shawn Charles Winslow's new book, Decent People – and it's one the segregated town's white police officers aren't paying much attention to. In today's episode, Winslow tells NPR's Scott Simon about the heroine who takes it upon herself to solve the case, and why the author feels a need to paint a nuanced portrait of even the antagonists in his books.
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Read Me a Poem - “Postscript” by Seamus Heaney

Amanda Holmes reads Seamus Heaney’s poem “Postscript.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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Chapo Trap House - 700 – Shine On You Crazy… (1/23/23)

We get a taste of the old Trump magic through his beautiful eulogy for one of his most loyal supporters, the wonderful Diamond. Then, we check in with America’s police forces through a(nother) unhinged new Sheriffs movement, and a cop who claims to to be able to discern 911 callers’ guilt through the tone of their voices. Finally, it’s time for a little Game of Thrones theory.
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The Gist - Matt Gaetz Is … Rational?

The factions that led to the near strangling of Kevin McCarthy’s speakership in the crib were noxious, but not pointless or unprecedented. Ruth Bloch Rubin, University of Chicago professor and author of Building The Bloc: Intraparty Organization In The U.S. Congress, takes a historic view and explains why the Never-Kevins act like they do. Plus, the Monterey Park shooter’s identity. And where there’s a there there’s a there there.

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