Month: February 2025

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Up First from NPR - Alternate Realities

Conspiracy theories are all over social media. For some, that's as far as they go. But for reporter Zach Mack, conspiracy theories have infiltrated his family. After Mack's father became obsessed with conspiracy thinking, family relationships began to fray. Today on The Sunday Story, a look at what happens to a family when the people in it can't agree on what's true and what isn't.

To hear more of Mack's story about the impact conspiracy theories have had on his family check out his three-part series called Alternate Realities on NPR's Embedded podcast.

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The Gist - Old Mitch and Minerals

On The Gist, we revisit two compelling segments. First, a deep dive into Ukraine's rare earth minerals—why they matter, who wants them, and how they factor into the geopolitical chessboard. Then, a throwback to January 24, 2020, for a look at the human embodiment of droning proceduralism himself, Mitch McConnell.


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Up First from NPR - Pentagon Upheaval, Hamas Releases More Hostages, NY State Prisons

President Donald Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus the Defense Department is set to lose more than 5 thousand personnel. Hamas releases 6 more living hostages as part of its ceasefire agreement with Israel. Corrections officers in NY protest working conditions and some walk off the job, prompting the governor to send in National Guard troops to secure some state prisons.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Greek Gods

The ancient Greeks had a polytheistic religion and a pantheon of gods. 

They didn’t just have many gods; they had a LOT of gods. Gods that ruled over many different aspects of human endeavor and the natural world.

These gods had a mythology that bound them up together in a very dysfunctional and often disturbing family tree.

You’re probably familiar with some of them, but others are pretty obscure.

Learn more about the Greek gods and their mythology on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: 3-Year Invasion – How to End Russia-Ukraine War?

Three years after Russia’s all-out assault on Ukraine, America’s role in the conflict seems to be shifting under President Trump.

Today, an expert on the region shares insights on Trump’s latest moves, Russia’s behavior, Ukraine’s hopes for the future, and what a possible end to this war could look like. 

 

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CBS News Roundup - 02/22/2025 | Weekend Roundup

On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup," host Allison Keyes looks at the economic impact of The Trump Administration's firing of thousands of federal workers around the nation with CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger and CBS's Weijia Jiang. New warnings about that Texas measles outbreak. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, the hospital emergency that the nation is facing soon.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?

Last week Elon Musk revealed that he had been through the Social Security Agencies database and found millions of people aged over 100.

The vast majority of these people are dead, but their accounts and social security numbers remain live.

Elon claimed that he had uncovered ?the biggest fraud ever? prompting some news outlets to speculate that billions of dollars might be being paid to these dead people every month.

But is it true? We look at whether this is new information and what the data actually tells us.

Produced and presented by: Lizzy McNeill Series producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Mix: James Beard