Donald Trump and the Department of Justice have a tumultuous relationship to say the least. It's become a focal point of the president-elect's campaign against the federal government. He's threatened to fire many of its employees and frequently brought up issues with the DOJ during his 2024 campaign speeches.
This week, the Justice Department announced its intention to release part of its report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But officials plan to keep the part of the report detailing his mishandling of files at his Mar-a-Lago resort confidential.
Trump has threatened to fire Jack Smith, the special attorney handling both cases.
As part of our dot Gov series, we take a look at the role the Justice Department plays in our government. We discuss Trump's vision for the agency and what it means for the people who work there.
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Consider This from NPR - ‘He saved our lives.’ A former US hostage reflects on Carter’s legacy
Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House were largely defined by an event that took place halfway through his term.
On November 4th, 1979 Iranian college students took over the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 52 Americans hostage.
For the next 444 days, the Carter administration tried to secure the hostages' release. In April, 1980 they even commissioned a rescue mission that ended in failure.
While Carter was trying to end the hostage crisis, he was also campaigning for a second term. A year to the day after the Americans were taken hostage, Ronald Reagan beat Carter in a landslide.
The hostage crisis played a key role in Carter's defeat.
The Iranian Hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter's presidency, but for some of the people he helped free, he was a hero.
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On November 4th, 1979 Iranian college students took over the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 52 Americans hostage.
For the next 444 days, the Carter administration tried to secure the hostages' release. In April, 1980 they even commissioned a rescue mission that ended in failure.
While Carter was trying to end the hostage crisis, he was also campaigning for a second term. A year to the day after the Americans were taken hostage, Ronald Reagan beat Carter in a landslide.
The hostage crisis played a key role in Carter's defeat.
The Iranian Hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter's presidency, but for some of the people he helped free, he was a hero.
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Consider This from NPR - ‘He saved our lives.’ A former US hostage reflects on Carter’s legacy
Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House were largely defined by an event that took place halfway through his term.
On November 4th, 1979 Iranian college students took over the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 52 Americans hostage.
For the next 444 days, the Carter administration tried to secure the hostages' release. In April, 1980 they even commissioned a rescue mission that ended in failure.
While Carter was trying to end the hostage crisis, he was also campaigning for a second term. A year to the day after the Americans were taken hostage, Ronald Reagan beat Carter in a landslide.
The hostage crisis played a key role in Carter's defeat.
The Iranian Hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter's presidency, but for some of the people he helped free, he was a hero.
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On November 4th, 1979 Iranian college students took over the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 52 Americans hostage.
For the next 444 days, the Carter administration tried to secure the hostages' release. In April, 1980 they even commissioned a rescue mission that ended in failure.
While Carter was trying to end the hostage crisis, he was also campaigning for a second term. A year to the day after the Americans were taken hostage, Ronald Reagan beat Carter in a landslide.
The hostage crisis played a key role in Carter's defeat.
The Iranian Hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter's presidency, but for some of the people he helped free, he was a hero.
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Consider This from NPR - ‘He saved our lives.’ A former US hostage reflects on Carter’s legacy
Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House were largely defined by an event that took place halfway through his term.
On November 4th, 1979 Iranian college students took over the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 52 Americans hostage.
For the next 444 days, the Carter administration tried to secure the hostages' release. In April, 1980 they even commissioned a rescue mission that ended in failure.
While Carter was trying to end the hostage crisis, he was also campaigning for a second term. A year to the day after the Americans were taken hostage, Ronald Reagan beat Carter in a landslide.
The hostage crisis played a key role in Carter's defeat.
The Iranian Hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter's presidency, but for some of the people he helped free, he was a hero.
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On November 4th, 1979 Iranian college students took over the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 52 Americans hostage.
For the next 444 days, the Carter administration tried to secure the hostages' release. In April, 1980 they even commissioned a rescue mission that ended in failure.
While Carter was trying to end the hostage crisis, he was also campaigning for a second term. A year to the day after the Americans were taken hostage, Ronald Reagan beat Carter in a landslide.
The hostage crisis played a key role in Carter's defeat.
The Iranian Hostage crisis helped doom Jimmy Carter's presidency, but for some of the people he helped free, he was a hero.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Meta Ends Fact-Checking On Facebook And Instagram
Finding the truth could get harder on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, now that Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will no longer be fact-checking. Executive editor at NewsGuard Jim Warren and lecturer at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism Michael Spikes join Reset to discuss.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
The Daily Signal - Court Saves Title IX, California Wildfire Rages On, Banks Leave Net-Zero Banking Alliance | Jan. 9
On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:
- A federal district court issued a decision Thursday in State of Tennessee v. Cardona that blocks the Biden administration’s attempt to rewrite Title IX.
- As California residents continue to suffer from the raging wildfires in Los Angeles County, Republicans raise questions.
- Six of America’s biggest banks left the United Nations Net-Zero Banking Alliance within the same month.
- Former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral service was Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
- Freshman Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas., introduced his first bill in Congress Thursday to reinstate Donald Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy.
- Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue may have raked in millions through fraudulent donations, according to the testimonies of elderly Americans
- A Senior staffer at The Washington Post told Fox Digital the paper feels “rudderless.”
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State of the World from NPR - What it is Like to Live and Report in Gaza
Israel has prevented international journalists from entering Gaza, which means getting information from the territory is difficult. NPR has relied on producer Anas Baba who lives in and reports from Gaza to be our microphone. In a conversation with NPR's correspondent Israel Daniel Estrin, we hear about the daily challenges Baba faces in Gaza.
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Science In Action - First US avian flu fatality
H5N1 bird flu is still spreading across farms in the USA and this week claimed its first human life in North America - an elderly patient in Louisiana infected by backyard poultry. But last week, Sonja Olsen, Associate Director for Preparedness and Response in the CDC’s flu division, and her colleague Shikha Garg, published new analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine summarizing the human cases and epidemiology so far.
A lab study underscoring a suspected link between the virus responsible for cold sores, and Alzheimers, the most common form of dementia, has been published in Science Signalling this week. The study, by Dana Cairns of Tufts University, looks at whether repetitive brain trauma – another risk factor - adds to the evidence that latent herpes simplex can be involved.
Song Lin, a chemist at Cornell University who has won prizes for pioneering the use of electrical currents to drive chemical reactions rather than heat, has teamed up with Cornell micro engineer Paul McEuen to power up a new kind of chemistry and invent another kind of SPECS – an acronym for Small Photoelectronics for Electrochemical Synthesis. They outlined their first generation device and the promises it brings in Nature this week.
Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Animals At War: Fact vs. Fiction
Whether as beasts of burden, scouts, sentries or attack dogs, animals have been conscripted into human conflict since the dawn of recorded history. This practice hasn't changed in the modern day -- it's only evolved. Join the guys as they delve deep into some of modern history's strangest rumored (and confirmed) tales of animals in warfare, from would-be weaponized bats to tales of cyborg sharks, surveillance birds and more.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that Facebook, Instagram and Threads would dramatically dial back content moderation and end fact checking. WSJ’s Jeff Horwitz explains what that means for the social media giant.
Further Reading:
-Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down
-Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch
Further listening:
-Meta Is Struggling to Boot Pedophiles Off Facebook and Instagram
-Is Fighting Misinformation Censorship? The Supreme Court Will Decide.
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