Month: June 2024

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Strict Scrutiny - The Textualist Case for Mass Shootings

In an emergency episode, Leah and Melissa break down the Court's 6-3 decision to strike down a ban on bump stocks, attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at machine gun-like rates. It's bad, people.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: June 14, 2024

The news can be a lot to handle. On our Weekly News Recap, we give you the top stories from the week, and dive into their nuances. This week, Chicago’s City Council approved one of the largest ever police misconduct settlements, but deferred on an earlier teen curfew and ethics ordinance. Senate Republicans blocked Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s bill to protect in vitro fertilization. And Riot Fest departs the city for the suburbs. Reset dives into these and other major local news with Heather Cherone, WTTW Chicago politics reporter, Salem Collo Julin, Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Reader and Greg Hinz, political columnist, Crain’s Chicago Business. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Gist - Strom Thurmond Cost Him An Apartment From The Grave

Yusuf Dahl is founder of the Real Estate Lab in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lafayette College. He was also sentenced to ten years for dealing drugs at the age of eighteen.  To this day, he can still be legally discriminated against in the housing market, which he recently discovered when attempting to rent a home. We speak about his fight to overturn this measure. Plus, 25 years ago the Santana song "Smooth" went to #1. Would you believe It was the last Billboard #1 single to feature a guitar solo?


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Oil gluts, Russian bucks, and Starbucks

Indicators of the Week is back! This week, we've got indicators about oil gluts, big bucks for Ukraine and fewer bucks at Starbucks. (Apologies for the slurping.)

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How to get Russia to pay Ukraine
An oil boom, a property slump and dental deflation

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The Daily Signal - SCOTUS Ruling on Gun Case, Republicans to Stall Biden Nominees, Summer Movie Review | June 14

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • The Supreme Court rules that the government can’t use a decades-old ban on machine guns to ban bump stocks.
  • Six Senate Republicans vow to exact revenge for the Biden administration’s use of lawfare.
  • Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana grants the preliminary injunction in the case Louisiana v. Cardona. 
  • The House of Representatives approves a massive National Defense Authorization Act.
  • Movie review of ​​“The Untouchables.”


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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/14/breaking-supreme-court-rules-bump-stock-ban-illegal/ 



https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/14/house-oks-massive-defense-bill-provision-blocking-pentagon-funding-abortions/ 


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CoinDesk Podcast Network - COINDESK DAILY: U.S. Judge Signs Off on $4.5B Terraform-Do Kwon Settlement; Gensler Speaks on Ether ETF Approval

Host Michele Musso breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from Do Kwon and Terraform Labs' $4.5 billion settlement with the SEC to Gary Gensler's comments on when the spot ether ETFs will be fully approved.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Michele Musso breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, as a U.S. judge has agreed to a settlement between the SEC, Terraform Labs and its former CEO Do Kwon. Plus, SEC Chair Gary Gensler told senators in a budget hearing that the applications to run ether spot ETFs should be finished this summer and a JPMorgan research report says digital assets have seen $12 billion of net inflows year-to-date.

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