Month: January 2024

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: US Couple Dead in Smoldering Home, China Regulates Gaming, Hundreds of Families Discover Missing Loved Ones Buried in Mississippi

In South Carolina, authorities find an elderly couple dead in a home with an astonishing temperature. The government of China proposes regulations on children and gaming. In Hinds county, Mississippi, investigators discover more than 200 people were buried anonymously, with no attempt to contact their families. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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Focus on Africa - Why has Burundi closed its border with Rwanda?

Burundi has closed its borders with Rwanda after accusing its neighbour of funding rebel attacks. Rwandan President Paul Kagame denies the charge, but Burundi's government has branded him a "bad neighbour". Can the two neigbours overcome their differences?

Also a report on migrant workers facing forced labour and exploitation in Mauritius

And a doctor from Sierra Leone tells us how his country and developing countries can hold onto their health care workers.

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CBS News Roundup - 01/15/2024 | World News Roundup

Voting for President begins with the Iowa caucuses. Widespread deep freeze. Funding the government. CBS News Correspondents Matt Pieper in Des Moines and Steve Kathan have today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - ‘King: A Life’ Biography Offers A Revealing Portrait of MLK

During his life and since his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. was and has been the face of the Civil Rights movement, but how much do you know about the man behind the myth? King: A Life taps new material, including an unpublished memoir by King’s father and FBI surveillance tapes, to give a full, unflinching portrait of King. On MLK Day, Reset revisits a conversation with the Chicago-based author of the biography, Jonathan Eig.
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Up First from NPR - Iowa caucuses, 100 days of Israel-Hamas war and Guatemala inaugurates a new president

The republican primaries begin today with the Iowa caucuses. What Israel's war against Hamas looks like in Gaza after a 100-days of retaliation. And after his inauguration was in doubt, Guatemala's new president is sworn in.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Intelligence: Independents’ day

Taiwan’s election of William Lai Ching-te of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party is sure to annoy leaders in Beijing; we ask what to expect next. Britain’s Post Office scandal simmered for two decades before a television series made it boil over (10:14). And what happens when climate change makes it too hot to work (17:44). 


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Bad Faith - Episode 338 – Accountability for Israel? (w/ Ben Norton & Omar Baddar)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton and Palestinian activist Omar Baddar return to Bad Faith to discuss Biden's unconstitutional bombing of Yemen, the broader context for the broadening regional war, and the latest from day two of the ICJ hearings, in which Israel attempted to defend it's 100 day siege of Gaza. Will growing public solidarity for Palestine on the international stage finally lead to accountability for Israel and the west?

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.15.24

Alabama

  • 2 AL congressmen continue to demand the US Mexico border be secure
  • State lawmakers are voicing objection to new ADPH rule on Covid reporting
  • State lawmaker offer bills placing life sentence on convicted child traffickers
  • 11th Circuit court to hear arguments over AL's new execution method
  • New Alabama Coach Kalen Deboer is officially welcomes to the state

National

  • Iowa caucus is today for Republicans to choose presidential candidate
  • Two US Navy SEALS are missing off coast of Somalia, lost at sea
  • TX National guard seizes Shelby Park, booting out Border Patrol agents
  • TX congressman says impeaching DHS secretary very possible by end of month
  • GA state senators offer bill to allow removal/investigations of Secretary of State
  • DA Fani Willis goes to church on Sunday, makes rebuttal through "prayers"