The presidential candidates are making their pitches to potential voters out West today. More than 60-million people have already voted in the presidential race. Elon Musk was a no-show in a Philadelphia courtroom for a hearing over his political action committee's million dollar-a-day sweepstakes. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.
What scares you the most? Is it something creepy and crawly? Something that slithers?
Maybe it's the dark, or the end of the world, or, even worse, a bad report card.
We all have things that scare us. And movies are good at making us experiencing those things in a safe way. But why do we even want to do it in the first place? We discuss what we like about being scared.
And later...
Vampires have been a pop culture staple for decades — as movie monsters and as metaphors for our deepest desires. And whether your favorite vampires are Nosferatu and Dracula, or Louis and Lestat, they all have a few bloody things in common.
We get into why the vampire myth prevails and how the vampire genre is changing, during our Spooky Roundup.
Everyone's getting out of the presidential endorsement business, but The Gist, sensing a market opportunity, is wading in! Plus, Bloomberg's Akshat Rathi is back to discuss EVs, the energy needs of the AI revolution, and the banning the domestic extraction of oil?
There are plenty of ways to encourage people to vote, as the presidential candidates and their supporters are demonstrating in this final stretch of the campaign.
We dig into each campaign's voter turnout operation.
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There are plenty of ways to encourage people to vote, as the presidential candidates and their supporters are demonstrating in this final stretch of the campaign.
We dig into each campaign's voter turnout operation.
For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
There are plenty of ways to encourage people to vote, as the presidential candidates and their supporters are demonstrating in this final stretch of the campaign.
We dig into each campaign's voter turnout operation.
For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
With Election Day just around the corner, Ravi welcomes back Isaac Saul from Tangle to dive into the final stretch. They discuss voter enthusiasm, how an uptick in turnout among women could impact battleground states like Pennsylvania, and why both campaigns are engaged in a high-stakes battle to control the narrative around election integrity.
They then delve into Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally and Biden’s media gaffe and explore how these moments might influence public perception in the crucial final days. Finally, Isaac and Ravi address what each campaign needs to do to secure a victory on November 5 and share their closing predictions.
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This week at least 150 people have been killed due to devastating flash flooding sweeping through areas of Valencia in Spain. Ana Camarasa Belmonte, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Valencia, has been studying the flood patterns and hydrology of the area for years. Even she was astounded by the magnitude of the inundation. And, as Jess Neumann of Reading University in the UK tells Roland, part of the tragedy is that the effective communication of risk somehow relies on citizens being able to adequately imagine the almost unimaginable.
Ten years ago this week, Friederike Otto and colleagues founded the World Weather Attribution network. The network aims to provide quick analysis of climate change's impact on on extreme weather events. They have already found that the Spanish flooding was made more intense, and more likely, by our warming world. Earlier in the week they published a different analysis of the 10 most deadly, extreme-weather events of this century. They concluded that all 10 events were made more extreme or more likely by climate change, and that these 10 events alone account for some 570,000 deaths.
In the US, Scientists have tested the strain of H5N1 bird flu swabbed from the eye of an infected Texan farm worker. They found it to be both lethal and transmissible via the respiratory tract of mice and ferrets. It contains a mutation PB2-627K, common in avian viruses in mammalian cells, as Amie Eisfeld of the Universoity of Wisconsin-Madison explains.
Presented by Roland Pease
Produced by Alex Mansfield
Production Coordination by Jana Bennett-Holesworth
(Image: Aftermath of catastrophic floods in Spain's Valencia. Credit: Anadolu via Getty Images)
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Andrew Langer, radio host and president of the Institute for Liberty, joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss what free speech would look like under a Harris-Walz administration.
Democrats, including those in the current Biden-Harris administration, have long worked to censor and silence conservatives or others they disagree with. Through the weaponization of the justice system, scheming with Big Tech, and working with private organizations, the left has waged an all-out assault on the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans.
But the upcoming election could change everything.
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