Month: August 2024

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The NewsWorthy - Top Doc: Parents Too Stressed, Military Controversies & Schools Ban Phones- Thursday, August 29, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, August 29, 2024!

We're telling you about a new surgeon general advisory calling the silent struggles of American parents a public health concern.

Also, we'll explain the controversy surrounding former President Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery. 

Plus, why the online review platform Yelp is suing Google, where new laws aim to crack down on smartphone use, and a preview of the tournament with the largest prize in professional golf.

Those stories and more news to know in about 10 minutes!

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘How to Leave the House’ follows a quest for a missing package

Natwest, 23, is about to finally leave for university. But a package he's waiting for has gone missing and – fearing humiliation if its contents are found out – he spends 24 hours looking for it all over town. That's the premise of Nathan Newman's comic novel, How to Leave the House. In today's episode, Newman speaks with NPR's David Folkenflik about some of the odd neighborhood characters Natwest bumps into along the way, and how their own concerns and their perceptions of Natwest completely challenge the notion of who he thinks he is as the protagonist of his own story.

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Amazing Frauds, Faking Your Own Death, and the Latest on the Election

Nate and Maria briefly discuss the latest election news. Then Tim Harford, author and host of Cautionary Tales, joins to discuss two of history’s most compelling con artists: Sam Israel III and John Law. Risk-related lessons are learned.

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A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth and Fiction from the New York Times

The Murderer, The Boy King, and The Invention of Modern Finance from NPR (featuring our EP Jacob Goldstein!)

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CBS News Roundup - 08/28/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

The Supreme Court will not revive President Biden's student debt relief program. New footage of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responding to the attack on the Capitol on January 6th has emerged. A Nevada jury found a former Las Vegas-area politician guilty of murder in the killing of a journalist. CBS News Correspondent Linda Kenyon with tonight's World News Roundup.

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Pod Save America - Harris Hits the Airwaves

Lovett and guest host Symone Sanders Townsend of MSNBC discuss the Harris-Walz campaign's latest moves: new ads hitting Trump and touting her housing plan, and a big bus tour through southeastern Georgia. Then, they look at Trump's counter-programming—notably, selling trading cards of himself—and who benefits most from muted mics at the September 10 debate.

 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - How mortgage interest rates work (and why they’re currently out of whack)

Even with falling interest rates in recent weeks, mortgage rates are still higher than you'd expect.

Mortgage interest rates are usually a little less than two percentage points higher than what you would get on a 10-year Treasury bond. But for the last couple of years that difference has been noticeably higher: 2.6% at the moment. New borrowers have been paying potentially thousands of dollars extra each year on their mortgages.

Today on the show, how mortgage interest rates work and why they're currently out of whack ... with new borrowers footing the bill.

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Are both rents AND interest rates too dang high?
How mortgage rates get made
The rat under the Fed's hat
AP Macro gets a makeover

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The Gist - The Rise And Fall Of Crypto

In 2020, as the pandemic raged, Andrew Chow found the Clubhouse app, and on it, he marveled at the volume of chatter about cryptocurrencies. He dove into that (mostly male) world of speculative bubbles, NFTs, grandiose ideas, and then watched it all crash and burn. Andrew joins us to discuss his new book, Cryptomania: Hype, Hope, and the Fall of FTX's Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire. Also on the show, Mike says the quiet part out loud.


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19 Days - 2. 10 Days Later

Ten days after the mysterious first bomb, another package bomb detonates, killing 17 year-old music prodigy Draylen Mason and critically injuring his mother. As the Austin bomb squad tries to make sense of the scene and the FBI begins their investigation, a third package bomb goes off just a few miles away, injuring 70 year-old Esperanza “Hope” Herrera. It is now clear: there is an active serial bomber on the loose while South by Southwest, one of the largest cultural festivals in the world, is in full swing.


From Campside Media, Pegalo Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Season 6 of Witnessed: 19 Days


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19 Days - 1. March 2nd, 2018

When a package mysteriously explodes on the front porch of a suburban home in Northeast Austin, killing homeowner and father Anthony Stephan House, authorities are mystified. Bombings of this type are incredibly rare and law enforcement has – at best – flimsy theories about motives and suspects. This darkly strange incident fades from the headlines as the annual South by Southwest Festival ramps up.


From Campside Media, Pegalo Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Season 6 of Witnessed: 19 Days


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