Former Vice President Pence willing to testify about Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Deadly Midwest tornadoes. Tennessee lawmakers face expulsion. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
NPR's Pentagon Correspondent, Tom Bowman, receives a shocking tip from a trusted source: A deadly explosion during the Iraq War was an accident—friendly fire, covered up by the Marine Corps—and the son of a powerful politician may have been involved. Listen to the full story in NPR's Embedded podcast.
After seven years as a correspondent for The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr. will now get behind the desk as a guest host this week. Wood will also be venturing into new territory as the emcee of the White House Correspondents Dinner at the end of April. Reset speaks with the entertainer about these two big gigs, and how fatherhood has changed his outlook on his life career.
After seven years as a correspondent for The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr. will now get behind the desk as a guest host this week. Wood will also be venturing into new territory as the emcee of the White House Correspondents Dinner at the end of April. Reset speaks with the entertainer about these two big gigs, and how fatherhood has changed his outlook on his life career.
This week, Briahna is joined by Starbucks organizer and west coast barista Tyler Keeling to debrief the Howard Schultz congressional hearings during which Bernie held him to task for his long record of union busting. Not only was Tyler present at the hearing, he has read *both * of Schultz's books, and comes prepared to spill the tea...er, coffee.
Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.
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Rene Morkos is a builder. When he was younger, his Dad told him that he could study anything he wanted, as long as it wasn't Civil Engineering. So... that is exactly what he did. He has built amazing things all over the world, and also, obtained his PhD at Stanford. Outside of technology, he likes to alternate hobbies, and has currently settled into Mountaineering, after spending some time doing Kite Surfing.
Rene was in Afghanistan working on a project, trying to repair the runway that had been struck by RPG's. He was struck by how hard it was to find the optimal way to do a simple project. While he was studying his PhD, he also noticed that constructions sites were under utilized... so he and his team invented a simple algorithm that knew how to build.
Chicagoans live in two-flats, three-flats, bungalows and skyscrapers. And hundreds of households live in Chicago’s only trailer park, Harbor Point Estates. Beyond the city’s borders, there’s another 18,000 mobile homes in our metro area. Reporter Linda Lutton answers a question about what life is like in Chicagoland mobile home communities, as told by residents themselves.
Chicagoans live in two-flats, three-flats, bungalows and skyscrapers. And hundreds of households live in Chicago’s only trailer park, Harbor Point Estates. Beyond the city’s borders, there’s another 18,000 mobile homes in our metro area. Reporter Linda Lutton answers a question about what life is like in Chicagoland mobile home communities, as told by residents themselves.
In which the unsavory feeding practices of British dairy farms introduce Europe to a new degenerative brain disease, and Ken believes Prince Edward is not necessarily human. Certificate #41602.