Republicans get done what they needed to get done in the House of Representatives. And in Israel, hostages are buried and painful eulogies delivered, which we read in full. Give a listen.
Today we talk about Elon’s gambit to get everyone to respond to a work email on a weekend, the Eagles will they/won’t they trip to the White House, the Trump administration’s vague crackdown, and we talk for a long time for some reason about leap years and how they’re weird.
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Razor-close budget vote in the House. Measles outbreak spreads. The filth coming from your faucet. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on this morning's World News Roundup.
House Republicans passed a sweeping new budget plan but disagree on spending cuts. A group of civil servants on Elon Musk's DOGE team resigned, and egg farmers on the front lines of the latest bird flu outbreaks say they are losing the battle with the disease.
Today's episode of Up First was edited by Jason Breslow, Padmananda Rama, Carrie Feibel, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange.
The Chicago area played a key role in Black aviation in the early 1900s. The founders of the first Black-owned airport learned to fly in Chicago and went on to teach thousands of others.
Located at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula is the largest autonomous community in Spain by population and the second largest by area: Andalusia.
Andalusia is different from the other regions of Spain for a host of reasons. It has a unique history, a unique geography, and a unique culture.
Moreover, many of the things that people associate with Spain are actually things that come from Andalusia and can seldom be found elsewhere.
Learn more about Andalusia and what makes it so unique on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Today, we're discussing Elon Musk’s trauma-inducing email, Trump blaming Ukraine, Kamala Harris’s “inspiring” speech at the BET Awards, and Rachel Maddow’s callout of MSNBC.
The news to know for Wednesday, February 26, 2025!
We’re talking about Republicans’ latest moves to slash government programs and cut taxes.
Also, the White House is changing how news outlets are allowed to cover the president.
Plus, a festival hosted more people than the population of the U.S., an American sports legend is calling it a career, and famous musicians released an album that’s completely silent—we’ll tell you why.
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Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama cataloged spreadsheets of poems to help create his new anthology, 44 Poems on Being with Each Other. The collection features writing from a variety of poets as well as reflections from Ó Tuama on the nuances of the human condition. Ó Tuama is also out with his own poetry collection, Kitchen Hymns. In today's episode, he speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about poetry that reflects complex emotions and about his background in theology.
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President Donald Trump has said that Canada should be the 51st state... and Canadians? Well, they're furious about it. The nation's former finance minister is calling Trump the biggest threat Canada has faced since World War 2. So today on the show, we dig into what lessons Canada can teach the US, and how the two North American nations are already deeply intertwined.
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