The NewsWorthy - Unusual FBI Shakeup, Largest Immigration Surge, & Person of the Year- Thursday, December 12, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, December 12, 2024!

We'll tell you about a top official's decision to quit, making room for an overhaul in the FBI. 

Also, why there is new backlash over the most popular sporting event in the world.

Plus, what's behind a recent increase in food recalls, which new features are now available for iPhones, and who was named TIME magazine's Person of the Year.  

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The Best One Yet - 🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.

The fastest-growing coffee chain in New York is Matto… because the $3 latte has a secret.

The UnitedHealthcare CEO killer has been charged with murder… but it also revealed pent up frustration with healthcare.

Louis Vuitton just acquired the Orient Express… because luxury trains are the new luxury shirts.

Plus, toss away that gingerbread house - Charcuterie Chalets are what santa’s digging right now.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In Zahid Rafiq’s debut short story collection, the future of Kashmir is uncertain

The World With Its Mouth Open is a book of short stories from journalist-turned-author Zahid Rafiq. The collection showcases the precarious but ordinary lives of people in modern day Kashmir, a site of ongoing geopolitical conflict. In Rafiq's stories, a work crew makes a disturbing discovery at a construction site, a pregnant woman searches for fresh fish, and a shopkeeper has an unexpected encounter with a mannequin. In today's episode, Rafiq tells NPR's Eric Deggans about his interest in writing stories without knowing the ending, and his characters' ability to build a future on the foundation of a difficult past.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - An economist’s role in the fall of Syria’s government

In 2012, Karam Shaar had to leave his home country of Syria due to the civil war. But he still wanted to make a difference. Through his economic analysis, he uncovered concerning patterns about how the Assad regime and its cronies were siphoning money from humanitarian aid. Today on the show, the story of how one Syrian exile contributed to the resistance while on the other side of the world.

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Tech Won't Save Us - How Data Is Changing Air Travel w/ Amanda Mull

Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the data-informed decisions that are changing the way we all experience air travel, mostly for the worse.

Amanda Mull is a senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Who Can Save the Democrats?

The hunt for the new chair of the Democratic National Committee is on and the winning candidate will be the one that party officials believe can guide Democrats back to the White House. So who’s throwing their hat into the ring?


Guest: Gabriel Debenedetti is a national correspondent at New York Magazine and the author of The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama.


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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - The Riskies: The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Decisions of 2024

What were the best, worst, and most interesting decisions of 2024, and what can we learn from them? Nate and Maria award the year’s most notable decisions in our first annual Riskies awards show. Also: degen of the year, nit of the year, and the cognitive bias that best explains 2024.

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It Could Happen Here - The Moral Economy of Inflation or Why Trump Won

Mia looks at both what caused the inflation that defined the Biden administration and how the reactions to it were driven by an American moral economy and the sense of injustice it invokes.

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https://strangematters.coop/supply-chain-theory-of-inflation/

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/157973/1/bna-259_20090522_nb_casp_full_indexed.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/650244

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