Month: June 2024

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What Are Fibroids And Why Will A Majority Of Women Get Them?

Fibroids are the most common non-cancerous tumor that grows inside the uterus. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, around 1 in 4 women of reproductive age have fibroids. While not everyone who has them experiences symptoms, it can cause pain that can impact a person’s daily life. Fibroids can cause heavy and painful menstrual cycles, cramping, bloating, lower back pain and frequent urination. Reset checks in with a doctor to learn more about these uterine growths and treatment. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - French anti-foreign legion: an EU-election shock

Hard-right parties did well in Europe's parliamentary elections—so well in France that President Emmanuel Macron called a risky snap election. Elsewhere, though, the political centre held. We examine the policies that are getting America’s many chronically truant students back in school (9:13). And the delicate business of naming a new car (16:42).


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Up First from NPR - Israel-Gaza Latest, EU Elections Results, Hunter Biden Trial

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Middle East to push president Biden's ceasefire deal amid international outrage over Israel's mission that rescued four hostages and killed more than 270 Palestinians in Gaza. European election results are in, and some of the biggest countries in the EU are swinging to the right. Also, Hunter Biden's defense will present their case as the felony gun trial of the president's son continues.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.10.24

Alabama

  • Sen. Tuberville praises Farm Act of 2024, Senate Dems plan to debate
  • Sen. Tuberville rails against Joe Biden for causing JSU band cancellation
  • AL Dem Party Chairwoman says GOP are victims and Trump a crybaby
  • Rogersville man sentenced to prison for possession of child porn
  • Shark attacks in FL injure two girls from Mountain Brook
  • Decatur Initiative for skilled workers now accepting applications for college grads

National

  • Judicial Watch claims transcripts don't match audio of Biden interview w/Hur
  • TX Governor says border now MORE open with Biden's executive order
  • New Poll shows 62% of voters in favor of deportation program for illegals
  • Trump holds boisterous rally in Las Vegas, calls out Biden and border crisis
  • Yale University law professor offers legal strategy to Trump re: NYC charges


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Start the Week - ‘Left behind’, but not forgotten

Why are there areas of severe deprivation in prosperous countries, and how can prosperity be shared more equally? Those are the questions the world-renowned development economist Paul Collier explores in his book, Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places. He looks at areas that were once thriving – from the mining towns of South Yorkshire to the bustling city ports in Colombia – to explore widening inequality, but also to offer ideas of economic renewal.

Matthew Xia directs the UK premier of Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morriseau at the Donmar Warehouse (from 28th June to 24th August 2024). Set in Detroit in 2008, the play follows a tight-knit group of workers in one of the city’s last surviving car factories as they struggle to come to terms with its inevitable closure. This is a story about the human cost of a global financial crisis and of enduring hope, against the odds.

Joanna Kusiak calls herself a scholar-activist as she recounts the movement she was involved in that put people and community before speculative finance and profit. Her book, Radically Legal, is the story of how a group of ordinary Berliners used a forgotten clause in the German constitution to take back more than 240,000 apartments from corporate landlords. The book is based on Kusiak’s winning entry to the Nine Dots Prize, which supports the development of book proposals, and was in response to the question set by the prize: ‘why has the rule of law become so fragile?’

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Books

Books are one of the foundational tools of civilization. They allow us to pass knowledge and information between people who don’t know each other, and their compact form allows knowledge to be transported across vast distances. 

Their permanence allows information to be sent across time such that centuries might separate a writer from a reader. 

But how did books develop, and in the modern world, is a book still a book if it's purely digital? 

Learn more about books, where they came from, and how they’ve changed on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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In God We Lust - Listen Now: Wow in the World’s Summer of Wow!

Wow in the World is the #1 science podcast for kids and their grown-ups. Hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz share stories about the latest news in science, technology, and innovation. Stories that give kids hope, agency and make us all say "WOW"!

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Strict Scrutiny - Texas Doubles Down on Life-Threatening Abortion Ban

Melissa and Kate talk to Molly Duane, lawyer from the Center for Reproductive Rights, about the disheartening outcome in the Zurawski case in Texas. Plus, they recap recent opinions in cases about bankruptcy, tax law, and health care on Native American reservations.

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Opening Arguments - Hunter Biden’s Trial Is Everything MAGA Thinks The Trump Trial Was

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We begin in Florida with yet more of Judge Aileen Cannon's efforts to delay Donald Trump's federal case, including a demand for Jack Smith to be nicer to Trump's lawyers and her decision to allow non-parties to join the fun and make arguments in an upcoming hearing about whether Smith was properly appointed to prosecute Trump at all.

Hunter Biden's federal trial began this week in Delaware on charges relating to his purchase and possession of a gun which he owned for 11 days in 2018. Matt breaks down the history of this investigation, the charges, and how this case ended up going to trial before a quick time jump in which we return to review what we know one week into these proceedings. How does this trial compare to the one which concluded a week earlier with the conviction of a former President Donald Trump--and would these charges ever have been brought against someone whose last name wasn’t Biden? 

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