Month: December 2024

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The NewsWorthy - RIP Jimmy Carter, Norovirus Cases Surging & ‘Wicked’ at Home – Monday, December 30, 2024

The news to know for Monday, December 30, 2024!

We’ll start remembering the 39th and longest-living U.S. president — who died over the weekend at age 100.

Then, we’ll tell you about one of the deadliest aviation disasters in years: what video does — and doesn’t — tell us about the passenger plane that crashed in South Korea, killing 179 people.

Plus, dozens of tornadoes hit the southern U.S. over the weekend, President-elect Trump weighed in on the TikTok ban set to take effect next month, and when and where you can watch the record-breaking Wicked movie from home.

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

 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Invest like a Congress member (Encore)

There are some new funds that track stock trading by members of Congress and their family. So we thought, why don't we get in on that?

Today on the show, we crack open the Planet Money Investment Jar to learn more about how our political leaders play the market, investing in funds tracking Democratic and Republican stock trades.

Whether Congressional stock trading should be limited is a hotly debated matter. So to test whether lawmakers are beating the market, Dartmouth College economist Bruce Sacerdote and his co-authors pitted lawmakers' stock picks against reindeer at a Christmas-styled theme park.

Trust us for this ride! It'll all make sense with some intriguing results.

This piece originally aired June 18, 2024.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Percival Everett centers a new voice in ‘James,’ a retelling of ‘Huckleberry Finn’

Percival Everett is a prolific author – his 2001 book Erasure was recently adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction. But his latest book, James, expands on a story readers around the world already know: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. In today's episode, Everett speaks with NPR's Andrew Limbong about why he wanted to reframe the classic novel from the perspective of the enslaved titular character, why he doesn't think of his new work as a direct response to Twain, and why he doesn't buy into the controversy surrounding the original.

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NPR's Book of the Day - BONUS: A biography and a memoir reexamine Jimmy Carter’s extraordinary life

Former president Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old. In today's episode, two books examine Carter's career in the White House and beyond. First, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Kai Bird about The Outlier, a biography that argues that Carter's deregulation of several industries, his social legislation and his foreign policy made his one-term presidency exceptionally productive. Then, a conversation from the vault between NPR's Eric Westervelt and Carter himself about his memoir, A Full Life.

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Up First from NPR - In Memoriam: Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100 years old, a modest man with an unforgettable ear-to-ear grin. Carter was the country's 39th president, serving only one term from 1977 to 1981. His years in the White House were difficult. He faced enormous problems at home and abroad and struggled to prove that he was a strong and capable leader. But once he left office, Carter became an almost unstoppable force for peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts. In this special episode of Up First, we consider the legacy of the man widely called "America's greatest former president."

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Game Shows

Ever since the advent of broadcast television, one of the staples of television programming has been game shows. 

Game shows have been around for almost 90 years, and during that time, contestants have won everything from a goat to millions of dollars. 

Some game shows require an incredible amount of skill, and others require nothing but dumb luck. 

However, it hasn’t been all fun and games. They have also been the subject of scandal and controversy.

Learn more about game shows, how they work, and their history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Up First from NPR - A Sunday in the Park

In our last episode of 2024, we go for a walk.

Earlier this year, NPR's immigration reporter Jasmine Garsd and Code Switch producer Xavier Lopez spent a day in one of their favorite places in the world: Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York.

It's a place they share with one of the most diverse communities in the world, a place where immigrants from around the globe gather to relax, recharge, and reconnect.

Today on The Sunday Story, you'll hear an excerpt of an episode from NPR's Code Switch podcast. You can listen to the full episode here.

And finally, we have a question for you. What's a place that you visit regularly–a place that lifts you up? We'd love to hear you tell us about it. You can send us a 2-3 minute voice memo at upfirstsunday@npr.org. Bonus points if you include sounds from the space you're in.

Make sure to tell us your name and where you're speaking to us from, and we might share it in an episode in 2025.

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