Montana's governor signs a bill banning new downloads of the TikTok app. Ron DeSantis expected to announce a White House run next week. House Ethics Committee to consider George Santos's fate. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Consumer activist and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on whether the Squad betrayed rail workers, the corruptive influence of the Congressional Black Caucus, what Hakeem Jefferies means for progressives 'inside game,' the reordering the Democratic Primary, whether Dems will hold SBF accountable, Kyrsten Sinema's party switch, Tesla's quality issues, the unprecedentedly large pentagon budget, the electoral landscape for 2024, and more.
A new WBEZ project called First 12 Weeks chronicles the journeys of three new mothers. Today, we hear the story of Asel, a new mother and Kyrgistanian immigrant. Reset talks with reporter Elly Fishman and Annie Conquest, a certified nurse-midwife at Erie Family Health Centers.
Shai Ber is 40 years old, living in Tel Aviv. He loves to travel, hike, and eat new kinds of food. He loves to swim at the beach often, but he admits, tech consumes a large amount of his life - and he likes it that way. Elad Ben-Israel is also from Tel Aviv, and is 43 years old - and he jokingly claims that he is the responsible adult in the company. Outside of tech, he enjoys attending burning man, and making sure he gets his workout in,
About year ago, Shai and Elad started a company to make using the cloud easier. As they went about thinking how best to do this, they struck gold in the thought of creating an expressive programming language.
Crows seem to be everywhere these days, noticed listener Kevin Branch. He asked Bay Curious: "Why are there so many? Are crows replacing other familiar birds, such as mockingbirds, blue jays and red-winged blackbirds? Is there a plan to reduce crow populations?" KQED's Dan Brekke takes us on a journey to find those answers in this updated episode which first ran in 2019.
This story was reported by Dan Brekke. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and Katie McMurran. Additional support from Cesar Saldana, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan.
Tomorrow, Syria’s president will be welcomed back into the Arab League as regional leaders meet in Jeddah. Is this the dictator’s first step in a journey to restore ties with the rest of the world? America’s small banks are capturing rural communities in a way that the big ones can’t. And, the world’s largest sporting tournament features some rather niche events.
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Today I'm joined by Dr. Bader Chaarani, Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering. Dr. Chaarani is here to break down the study he led that has us all yelling at our parents in 1994 saying why didn't you just let me play as much SNES as I wanted! You guys are the WORST! This sucks!
Anyway, also surprise-ish announcement to go along with this episode, my amazing wife Lydia and I are going to stream Tears of the Kingdom on twitch tomorrow! That's twitch.tv/srsnes, Thursday May 18th 2pm pacific! Come hang with us!
In which the pilots of a Canadian commercial jetliner abruptly realize over Ontario that they're entirely out of fuel, and Ken likes sad character licensing attempts at amusement parks. Certificate #41746.
Heinz’s newest product isn’t a sauce, it’s a make-your-own condiment freestyle machine — Because you should treat your customers like kids in a sandbox. The creator of ChatGPT just told Congress that AI is a nuclear technology… that should be regulated like nuclear. And Target just revealed that it’ll lose $1B this year on Shrinkage — which is corporate speak for theft — but the root of the problem isn’t what you think.
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