Month: June 2023

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The NewsWorthy - Growing Presidential Race, New Car Rules & NASA Talks UFOs- Thursday, June 1, 2023

The news to know for Thursday, June 1, 2023!

We're telling you what other big names are stepping into the 2024 presidential race.

And find out how the votes came down when the full House took up the debt limit deal.

Also, it's one of the most significant efforts to update car safety rules in years. 

Plus, revelations from NASA's first public meeting about UFOs, how Twitter is responding to an uptick in phony photos, and which music legend set three new world records. 

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Curious City - Chicago’s Infamous Dojo Wars Part 2: The Fall of Count Dante, the Deadliest Man Alive

In the 1960s, Chicago was becoming known as a center for Karate teaching and international tournaments, and the main person behind this movement was John Keehan. In the last of this two part series, we delve into Keehan’s devolution into a persona he created, Count Dante. He was at the center of Chicago’s “Dojo Wars,” which would end up taking a dark turn.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘The Kingmaker,’ romantic sparks fly at a pipeline protest

Kennedy Ryan's The Kingmaker portrays two seemingly opposite characters – a Yavapai-Apache activist and the heir to an oil fortune – falling in love, and dealing with the complicated fallout of their differences. In today's episode, Ryan speaks with NPR's Chloe Veltman about how she approached writing an indigenous character and community she herself is not a part of, and how powerful storytellers like Shonda Rhimes and Ava DuVernay inspire her own work.