Month: January 2025

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Focus on Africa - The tragic story of Samantha Pendo

Why has the case against the Kenyan police officers allegedly involved in the death of six-month old Samantha Pendo been delayed yet again? Seven years on, her parents are still seeking justice after a court hearing into the case was adjourned for the third time.

What happens to stolen funds and assets when they are recovered and repatriated to the country where they were taken from?

And as President Trump begins his second term in office, will he make it a mission to end wars in Africa?

Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Stephania Okereke, Nyasha Michelle and Kaine Pieri in London. Charles Gitonga was in Nairobi Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne Technical Producer: Francesca Dunne Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What Happens To Chicago Arts Funding Under Trump?

Chicago’s arts economy is in flux. With COVID relief dollars drying up, changes to the city’s cultural affairs department and a second Trump presidency, future funding for the arts and artists in Chicago is up in the air. Reset checks in with WBEZ arts and culture reporter Courtney Kueppers and Chicago artist, weaver and owner of Burial Blankets Anders Zanichkowsky. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Up First from NPR - Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok

Donald Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States; the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is in effect; and TikTok is back after going offline temporarily, but will it stick around?

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Reunions and rubble: Gaza’s first moments of peace

Quiet skies, returned Israeli hostages, Gazans going back home: there is much to celebrate, for the moment. We examine the path to a more robust and lasting peace. Britain’s minimum-wage rise is good news for those who earned less—but those who earned not much more are feeling more squeezed (9:45). And the medical merits of hypnosis are at last becoming recognised (16:50).


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Native America Calling - Monday, January 20, 2025 – Accounting for those who never made it home from Indian Boarding Schools

Seven children died in the first year of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School’s operation. Another 220 died over the school’s next 38 years. They are among the more than 3,100 students a year-long Washington Post investigation finds died while separated from their families in Indian Boarding Schools. Their tally is three times that of the recent investigation by the U.S. Department of Interior. Many of the deaths are attributed to illness, accidents, or neglect. Others have no official explanation or remain suspicious. We’ll discuss the Post’s investigation and why having an accurate accounting is important.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S10 Bonus: Wes Tatters, Rapyd Cloud

Wes Tatters has had a crazy, diverse career history. He is been in IT for around 40 years, and started in the days before the internet. He has had two paths - multimedia and information technology, of which both merged early in his career. He has been writing books since the early days of the internet. But outside of tech, he is married with kids, and in their downtime, they enjoy being together and sharing the world with one another.

Ten years ago, Wes started in on the Wordpress space. He immediately saw that most experiences utilized shared hosting, and he also had customers wanting to build community environments. The problem was most hosting providers didn't perform well enough to support the components needed for these types of sites.

This is the creation story of Rapyd Cloud.

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Start the Week - Music and movement; mind and body

Music as Medicine is the latest work by the neuroscientist and best-selling author Daniel Levitin. In it he explores the healing power of music, and the cutting edge research which examines how sound affects the brain. The dance critic Sara Veale is interested in movement. In Wild Grace she tells the untold history of the extraordinary women who were the pioneers of modern dance. While Nwando Ebizie is a practitioner of both music and movement, and is interested in using the latest neurological studies in her art. She will perform the works, Solve et Coagula (arr. Mark Knoop) and All the Calm of a Distant Sea at the Southbank Centre, London (23rd January) as part of the BBC Radio 3 Unclassified concert.

Producer: Katy Hickman

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.20.25

  • The Deep South is bracing for its first winter storm in 11 years. 
  • An 18-year-old New Hampshire teen received a life-saving kidney transplant from a Foley woman. 
  • Admiral Kent Davis, former Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs commissioner, is considering a run for state office after being fired by Governor Kay Ivey.
  • President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday.