Earthquake death toll surpasses five thousand in Turkey and Syria. The economy will be key in tonight's State of the Union address. LeBron James goes for the NBA scoring record. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief efforts following earthquakes in an already troubled region. As President Joe Biden prepares to welcome a new chief of staff, we speak with the author who literally wrote the book on America’s second-most-powerful government job. And Argentina’s newest musical export repurposes an American genre born three decades ago.
Paul McCarthy grew up in Cork, Ireland, and went to school there. He lives around the corner from the sea, and likes to dip in now again - literally, swim in the ocean. He calls it a great shock to the system, but ensured that I know he doesn't spend a full hour in the water.
Five years ago, Paul was fed up with the archaic ways that properties were managing their safety, maintenance and work orders manually, through platforms like WhatsApp. He set out to build the simplest way to manage your hotel, facilities and team - using photos.
The most exciting real estate right now? Storage Units — and the #1 company just declared war on Wall Street. The co-founders of Instagram just launched their first app together since Instagram… and it’s the opposite of Instagram. And if you notice the same Chevy car show up in your Netflix shows, it’s not a coincidence: It’s Netflix’s new product placement biz.
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In the very long history of China, it has had exactly one female ruler.
She was a woman who managed, against all odds, to inch her way closer to power over a period of years until she reached a point where she could claim power for herself.
By all accounts, she was beautiful, brilliant, cunning, and absolutely ruthless.
Learn more about Wu Zetian, China’s only female emperor, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
In Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters (Zero Books, 2022), Ben Burgis reminds readers about what was best in Hitchens's writings and helps us gain a better understanding of how someone whose whole political life was animated by the values of the socialist left could have ended up holding grotesque positions on Iraq and the War on Terror. Burgis' book makes a case for the enduring importance of engaging with Hitchen's complicated legacy.
Ben Burgis is a Jacobin columnist, an adjunct philosophy professor at Morehouse College, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument.
Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com.
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks struck Turkey and Syria early Monday, killing thousands of people and devastating a region already grappling with civil war and a refugee crisis.
The U.S. military on Saturday shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean, days after it entered American airspace. The incident prompted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone a trip to China, saying it “undermined” efforts to repair the relationship between the two countries.
And in headlines: officials in Ohio started releasing hazardous chemicals from a train derailment to prevent a massive explosion, Google unveiled its own chatbot tool to compete with ChatGPT, and Crooked Media workers voted to unionize.
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Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: MSF’s response to earthquakes in Syria & Turkey – https://tinyurl.com/2p9cptdu
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What to expect from President Biden's State of the Union tonight and the Republicans' rebuttal.
Also, we'll tell you about the world coming together to respond to one of the deadliest earthquakes of the decade.
Plus, how a notorious tabloid is looking to expand its business, why you'll have to pay more for certain movie theater tickets, and which companies are spending millions of dollars on Super Bowl commercials this year.
Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!
In this episode, The Goods from the Woods Boys are hangin' out with comedian Quincy Johnson II talkin' about some recent antics at the NFL Pro Bowl. We also sample MTN DEW Pitch Black and talk about a guy in Brazil who faked his own death just to see who'd show up at his funeral. We got Top 3 comedy films of the 2010s and Top 3 worst smells. Hardy's "Rednecker" is our JAM OF THE WEEK. This one's an absolute hoot. Give us a listen today! Follow Quincy on all forms of social media @QuincyJohnsonII. Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod