Today's podcast examines the newly released uncorroborated account to the FBI of a supposed payoff to Joe Biden himself in 2015 from the Ukranian energy company Burisma. The company wanted Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired, and Biden did later convince the Ukrainian president at the time to fire Shokin. How seriously should we take this? How damaging is it for Biden? Give a listen.
Staying safe can be a challenge as oppressive heat drags on. Stuck on the tarmac is blistering temperatures. US women ready for the World Cup. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Last week I found myself in Sun Valley, Idaho, at a conference with a lot of big wigs. Among them was Larry Summers—an economist, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and a former president of Harvard University. The timing was fortuitous.
Last month, Harvard went before the Supreme Court to defend its race-based admission policies—and lost the case, thus overturning the legality of affirmative action. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that those admissions programs quote, “cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
This ruling has led to a debate in American life about the future of higher education, and it’s caused many to question another admissions policy that numerous American universities have long taken for granted: legacy admissions, the policy of giving preference to college applicants whose family has already attended the school. In light of the Supreme Court ruling, legacy admissions have been scrapped at top schools including Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, and just this week at Wesleyan University.
So I wanted to sit down with Larry Summers to talk about the future of American higher education, whether eliminating legacy admissions actually goes far enough, what he thinks admission departments will do in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, and what he might have done differently as president of Harvard if he could go back in time. And lastly, what makes American higher education worth saving in the first place.
Some of the things we use every day were invented in the distant past. Other things were invented quite recently.
However, there is a category of inventions that have been known forever, but no one ever had any practical use for it until recently.
Learn more about the elevator and how it helped create the modern world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Today we are discussing 2024, the IRS whistleblowers, Carlee Russell, Harry and Meghan's political ambitions and a unique story of never ending gnocchi.
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We're telling you about a so-called sanctuary city now telling migrants not to come and why thousands of highly-skilled workers in the U.S. are trying to get to Canada.
Also, a historic heatwave is now starting to put a strain on America's healthcare system.
Plus, a possible breakthrough in the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, an NFL team sold for a record price, and a "Barbenheimer" bonanza. We'll explain what's behind the bizarre movie mashup.
Today's episode takes us back in time to American society in the '70s. First, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Dennis Lehane about Small Mercies, his new novel about the desegregation of Boston public schools and a mother's plight to find her missing daughter during that time. Then, Simon chats with CNN anchor Jake Tapper about his book All the Demons Are Here, a family drama that involves a U.S. marine, a journalist, and their politician father making sense of post-Vietnam and post-Watergate disillusionment.
Ancient Israeli artifacts end up stolen at Mar-a-Lago.
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Extreme temperatures continue. New developments in Gilgo Beach murders. Investigation into U.S. soldier in North Korea. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper has tonight's World News Roundup.
Accredited investors are supposed to be sophisticated, but the designation is rooted in the size of your portfolio and not your expertise. Jennifer Schulp discusses current attempts at reform.
