The NewsWorthy - Border Help Dispatched, Prince Harry Chased & First TikTok Ban – Thursday, May 18, 2023

The news to know for Thursday, May 18, 2023!

We'll explain a new report that says record-breaking heatwaves are likely here to stay and what the Supreme Court decided about one state's ban on assault-style weapons.

Also, it was the most drastic step yet to restrict TikTok in the U.S.

Plus, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were involved in a car chase; new images of the world's most famous shipwreck could shed new light on what happened; and a popular, Grammy-winning pop star is changing his stage name.

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What A Day - The Limit Does Exist

 As the clock ticks closer to the June 1st default deadline, top aides to President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are working toward an agreement by Sunday. Meanwhile, Democrats are already looking into other last-ditch efforts – including a petition to force a debt ceiling vote in Congress, and even urging the president to invoke the 14th Amendment. 

On Wednesday, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over the abortion pill mifepristone. The three judges on the historically conservative panel will decide whether to allow the drug to remain on the market, in a case that will likely be appealed back up to the Supreme Court 

And in headlines: Pennsylvania Democrats will keep their narrow majority in the state House, the Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’ ban on assault weapons, and the publishing giant Penguin Random House has sued a Florida school district for banning books about race and queer identity.

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | How Forge Leadership Network Is Training, Mentoring Young Conservatives

Adam Josefczyk, the co-founder and president of the Forge Leadership Network, says the network, which was founded in 2015, "exists to mentor, train, and connect the next generation of conservative leaders" who are 18 to 25 years old. 

"We equip them in timeless principles, practical skills, and the legislative process in order to help them become the next statesmen and stateswomen in office, defenders of the Constitution and law, culture-shapers in ministry, and innovators in the marketplace," Josefczyk adds. 

The Forge Leadership Network has also "trained 500 young conservatives, ages 18 to 25," and has also "mentored the top 250 of those," according to Josefczyk. 

Josefczyk joins today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to further discuss the Forge Leadership Network, two upcoming leadership summits in Nashville, Tennessee, and Columbus, Ohio, and how many students and young professionals the network has worked with since its founding. 


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Tech Won't Save Us - Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn w/ Julia Black

Paris Marx is joined by Julia Black to discuss tech billionaires’ embrace of pronatalism and how it’s part of a broader rationalist project to remake society and protect their privileged positions.
 
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - North Carolina’s Rush to Restrict Abortion

When a Democratic pro-choice representative defected from her party, North Carolina Republicans instantly secured a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature. Then, they quickly sent a bill that restricts abortion to their Democratic governor’s desk, and overrode his veto, ending North Carolina’s time as an abortion destination in the southeastern United States.


Guest: Rebecca J. Kreitzer, associate professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and expert on abortion politics and policy.


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Opening Arguments - OA744: Georgia Fake Electors Scheme Gets Real (feat. Lawfare’s Anna Bower)

Liz and Andrew welcome Lawfare's Anna Bower to the podcast to break down everything going on with the potential indictment of Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, with a focus on Trump's recent motion to quash the Special Purpose Grand Jury report, DA Fani Willis's response, and more!

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NPR's Book of the Day - Lucinda Williams’ memoir looks back on a career defying expectations

Suitcases symbolize a lot for three-time Grammy winner Lucinda Williams. She tells NPR's Juana Summers she keeps a briefcase of musical references to help with her songwriting. In her new memoir, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, she also writes about moving from place to place as a child – she'd lived in 12 places by age 18 – because of her father's work. In today's episode, Williams recounts a career full of ups and downs in the music industry, and speaks about how she's returning to music after suffering a stroke in 2020.

It Could Happen Here - Title 42 Border Update

James is joined by Mia to discuss the end of Title 42 and the human cost of the USA’s fascination with border security.

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New Books in Native American Studies - The Meat and Bones of Life

With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse, Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism that characterized her earlier fiction and ventures into horror. White Horse follows Kari, an urban Native living in Denver, as a family heirloom belonging to her long-missing mother launches her into a world of the uncanny: ghosts and monsters lurch into real life and portals transport her into scenes from the past that reveal traumatic family secrets.

Wurth speaks with critic Leif Sorensen and host Rebecca Evans about what abides at the intersection of politics and craft, and what’s at stake in particular for the Indigenous writers of genre fiction whose work takes shape at that intersection. Their conversation pokes serious fun at everything from the faltering literary truism that being good at plot is somehow less impressive than being good at characterization to debates over authenticity in Native literature. Horror, as Wurth describes it, offers real and meaningful pleasures, solves the craft problems of over exposition, and opens up powerful questions of identity, politics, and history. Tune in for recommendations for genre writers from the emerging Fifth Wave of Indigenous fiction, reflections on orality and linguistics, and Wurth’s cure for “writer’s depression” instead of writer’s block!

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CBS News Roundup - 05/17/2023 | World News Round Up Late Edition

Dire warnings from scientists. The House refers George Santos expulsion resolution to Ethics panel. Royal couple chased by paparazzi. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper has tonight's World News Roundup.

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