Month: June 2024

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The NewsWorthy - Hunter Biden Guilty, Credit Scores Changing & Eating Champ Banned- Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The news to know for Wednesday, June 12, 2024!

We'll tell you the verdict in Hunter Biden's criminal trial and the response from his dad, the president.

Also, we're talking about a sad reality for soldiers and a new Covid-19 variant to know about.

Plus, what happens to the bodies of space tourists after one trip to space? 

A new proposal could wipe medical debt from credit scores, and a record-breaking, longtime champion is now banned from the most popular hot dog eating contest.

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The Best One Yet - 🏏 “Sticky Wickets” — Cricket’s Team USA tech workers. Venmo’s Apple nightmare. Netflix’s 5-word lawsuit.

Team USA plays #1 India today in the Cricket World Cup… and it’s thanks to our tech workers.

Netflix faces a $170M lawsuit for the series “Baby Reindeer”... and it all comes down to 5 words.

PayPal’s stock fell after Apple unveiled a Venmo-Killer... but is it really a Venmo-Booster?

Plus, Roger Federer’s Dartmouth commencement speech made us weep. Even the biggest winners…


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Short Wave - How The Current Heat Dome Can Affect Human Health

Right now, there's a "heat dome" lingering over the southwestern U.S. – a high pressure system that pushes hot air down and traps it, raising the temperature. Heat is becoming increasingly lethal as climate change causes more extreme heat. So in today's encore episode, we're exploring heat. NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer talks with Short Wave host Regina G. Barber about how the human body copes with extended extreme heat and how today's heat warning systems could better protect the public. With scientists predicting a very hot summer, if you can, stay cool out there, dear Short Wavers.

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The Daily Signal - Why Hunter Biden Case Smells Strongly of ‘Corruption’

Hunter Biden has been found guilty on all three of the felony charges he faced, but the case, according to Mike Howell, smells of "corruption." 


“What's happening with Hunter [Biden] is essentially they picked the lowest level thing that didn't connect to [President] Joe [Biden], the thing they could paint in the light of addiction, the most sympathetic light, as a means to absolve him for guilt in everything else,” says Howell, executive director for the Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation. 


“What the American people really care about, what I care about, is not that Hunter [Biden] was a crackhead,” Howell, also an investigative columnist for The Daily Signal, said, but “the corruption in the federal government, that Joe Biden and his family were running an international pay-to-play influence-peddling scheme in some of the most corrupt regions of the world, to include Ukraine and the [Chinese Communist Party].”


Howell joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to argue why the guilty verdict in the Hunter Biden case is more complex than it may appear.


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Hayek Program Podcast - “The Struggle for a Better World” Book Panel

On this episode, we’ll hear a book panel discussion on Peter Boettke’s book, The Struggle for a Better World (Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2021). In his comments, Boettke provides an overview of his book, emphasizes the role that institutions play in human societies, and discusses his focus on improving the human condition by lifting up those who are least prosperous in our world. The panel is moderated by Stefanie Haeffele, and they are joined on the panel by:

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Peter Boettke is a Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University and Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has published numerous books including Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2012) and F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy (2018).

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Culicidology (MOSQUITOES) Part 2 with Fhallon Ware-Gilmore

Part 2 of mosquitoes is here! Now that you know WHY they would like to eat you mosquito expert and Culicidologist, Dr. Fhallon Ware-Gilmore of the CDC gives us SOLUTIONS. How do we avoid bites? Why do they itch so much? Which repellents are safe for whom? What should you use in your yard? Does climate change mean an ongoing hellscape thick with mosquitos? Could Jurassic Park happen? What if mosquitoes were to, say… go extinct? Also: how do we learn to love these things that vex us? 

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Wait, Is JUUL Banned or Not?

Two years ago, the FDA announced it was banning JUUL nicotine vapes from sale in the U.S.—and then quickly announced it was holding off on the ban to allow for review. How did regulating ecigarettes end up playing catch-up?


Guest: Jamie Ducharme, health correspondent at Time, author of Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul. 


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What Could Go Right? - Progress, Polarization, and Backlash with CNN host Fareed Zakaria

When we hear the word ‘revolution,’ we often think of the bloody conflicts of the past. But what constitutes a modern-day revolution within our current economic system and forms of government? Both parties within American politics have seen cultural revolutions and shifting value sets with each decade. Zachary and Emma discuss these changes with CNN host, journalist, and author Fareed Zakaria. His latest book, ‘Age of Revolutions,’ explores past and present conflicts that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Stephen King finishes a story 45 years in the making in ‘You Like It Darker’

You Like It Darker is a new collection of short stories by Stephen King — and as the author tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, one of those stories spent decades tucked away in a desk drawer before he gave it an ending. In today's episode,the two discuss the bigger questions of destiny and morality in that story and in much of King's work, and why the writer thought several of his best-selling novels would never see the light of day.

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