One year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, life in Russia has changed profoundly. Our correspondent in Moscow tells us it is a place of lost freedoms, historical grievances, pride and despair.
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Consider This from NPR - Views From The Classroom On The New AP African-American Studies Course
There are a lot of different Advanced Placement history courses out there: art history, European history, U.S. history. Now, after a decade in development, there finally is an AP course focused on African-American studies.
The course hasn't official launched yet, but it's currently being piloted in 60 schools across the U.S.
The course has drawn national attention after controversies erupted over what is, and isn't, in the curriculum. We ask three educators who are teaching the course what they are actually teaching and why it matters.
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The course hasn't official launched yet, but it's currently being piloted in 60 schools across the U.S.
The course has drawn national attention after controversies erupted over what is, and isn't, in the curriculum. We ask three educators who are teaching the course what they are actually teaching and why it matters.
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First Things Podcast - Yeshivas Under Siege
In this episode, Jason Bedrick joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his recent article, “The New York Times’s botched attack on Jewish schools,” and his book, “Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York.”
The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Putin Touts Nuclear Arsenal, Democrats Missing From Border Hearing, National Archives Fires Security Guard Over Pro-Life Incident | Feb. 23
On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin touts Russia’s nuclear arsenal on eve of the anniversary of war with Ukraine.
- A security guard at the National Archives is fired after telling students they could not wear pro-life apparel inside the building.
- A new report reveals that the Norfolk Southern train crew tried to slow the train down moments before it crashed.
- The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing in Yuma Arizona to examine the Department of Homeland Security's operations at the border.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Sam Bankman-Fried Faces Four New Criminal Charges; Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain With No Plan to Issue New Network Token
The most valuable crypto stories for Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.
The hosts of "The Hash" weigh in as FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces additional charges, including bank fraud allegations, under a new 12-count indictment. Coinbase (COIN) launched Base, a layer 2 network built using Optimism's OP Stack, to attract new crypto users. In a new filing, New York and Federal financial regulators say a $1.02 billion deal by Binance.US to purchase assets of defunct crypto lender Voyager Digital could prove discriminatory and unlawful. Plus, a federal judge rules that the offering of Dapper Labs’ NBA-branded “Top Shot” non-fungible tokens might be securities.
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Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Additional Bank Fraud Charges in New Indictment
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Move to Quash Voyager Subpoena
Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain Base to Provide On-Ramp for Ethereum, Solana and Others
Cathie Wood's ARK Buys Over $13M of Coinbase Shares
NBA-Branded 'Top Shot Moments' NFTs May Be Securities, Judge Rules in Dapper Labs Case
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Motley Fool Money - Etsy’s “Jedi Mind Trick”
There's a lot of three-year comparisons getting thrown around. Is that what investors should focus on?
(1:00) Dylan Lewis and Tim Beyers discuss: - Etsy's short-term and long-term story. - The growth levers for Etsy moving forward. - The trends picking up Nvidia and the hype baked into its rally. - One shiny, distraction for investors watching the chipmaker.
Plus, (19:02) Maya Lau, host of the podcast "Other People's Pockets" joins Sierra Baldwin to discuss her new show and what she's learned from having conversations about salary, economic class, and careers.
Companies discussed: ETSY, NVDA
Host: Dylan Lewis Guests: Tim Beyers, Sierra Baldwin, Maya Lau Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks, Annie Franks
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Science In Action - Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar
Cyclone Freddy has made landfall on Madagascar, leaving destruction in its wake. At the time this edition of Science In Action is going to air, Freddy is on course to reach Mozambique and South Africa. Freddy, which has been gaining strength since it originally formed on the 30th of January, is the most powerful southern hemisphere cyclone on record. Professor Francois Engelbrecht provides the science behind the storm system.
In the centre of our galaxy, an enormous cloud is heading towards the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. Dr Anna Ciurlo tells us that this is a unique opportunity to study the influence of the black hole on the cloud’s shape and properties.
We’ve heard a lot about balloons floating above Earth recently… but what about sending balloons to Venus? That’s exactly what Dr Siddharth Krishnamoorthy is proposing in order to study Venus’s seismic activity. Recorders on a “floatilla” above the planet’s surface could listen into Venus-quakes and reveal Venus’s mysterious past.
And closer to home, scientists have discovered a new layer in the Earth’s core. We journey into the very centre of the Earth with Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić, who tells Roland what the innermost inner core can teach us about our planet’s past.
Image: NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS).
Producer: Roland Pease Assistant Producer: Sophie Ormiston
Federalist Radio Hour - East Palestine, ‘National Divorce’, And The Realignment
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Christopher Bedford, Executive Editor at the Common Sense Society, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss why Democrats are ignoring the effects of the hazardous chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio, analyze the national divorce debate, and explain why a conservative reckoning is coming.
Audio Poem of the Day - Harold Norse says, “Poetry meant being a sissy and worse. A fairy. A friend of mine once asked me why all poets were fairies. Well, I answered, that’s because they can fly.”
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SCOTUScast - Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States – Post-Argument SCOTUScast
On January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States.
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. (“Halkbank”) was indicted by a grand jury in 2019, and charged with involvement in a scheme to launder billions of dollars worth of proceeds from Iranian oil and natural gas, which was in violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran at the time.
Halkbank is majority-owned by the government of Turkey and moved to dismiss this indictment, arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction. Halkbank contended that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and the fact that the government of Turkey had a majority of its ownership made it immune to criminal prosecution in U.S. federal court. In relying on FSIA, Halkbank asserted that exceptions in FSIA apply only to civil cases, and that even if such exceptions applied in criminal cases, Halkbank Would still be immune under common law standards.
The U.S. District Court rejected the argument put forward by Halkbank, and the Second Circuit affirmed. This Supreme Court granted certiorari on the question of whether US district courts may exercise subject matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalities under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 and in light of FSIA.
Please join us to break down and analyze the oral argument!
Featuring:
Mike Hurst, Partner, Phelps Dunbar LLP
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. (“Halkbank”) was indicted by a grand jury in 2019, and charged with involvement in a scheme to launder billions of dollars worth of proceeds from Iranian oil and natural gas, which was in violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran at the time.
Halkbank is majority-owned by the government of Turkey and moved to dismiss this indictment, arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction. Halkbank contended that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and the fact that the government of Turkey had a majority of its ownership made it immune to criminal prosecution in U.S. federal court. In relying on FSIA, Halkbank asserted that exceptions in FSIA apply only to civil cases, and that even if such exceptions applied in criminal cases, Halkbank Would still be immune under common law standards.
The U.S. District Court rejected the argument put forward by Halkbank, and the Second Circuit affirmed. This Supreme Court granted certiorari on the question of whether US district courts may exercise subject matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalities under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 and in light of FSIA.
Please join us to break down and analyze the oral argument!
Featuring:
Mike Hurst, Partner, Phelps Dunbar LLP