CBS News Roundup - 02/06/2025 | World News Roundup

Decision day for federal workers considering a buyout offer. A rough commute in the Northeast. The impact of foreign aid cuts. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What Trump’s Plans For Dept. Of Ed Could Mean For Illinois

Only Congress can shut down the Department of Education, but President Trump is preparing an order that aims to downsize the agency and possibly move some of its functions to other departments. Reset learns more about what’s in the works and how changes to DOE could affect education in Illinois with higher education reporter for the Washington Post Danielle Douglas-Gabriel. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

Village SquareCast - Dr. Theodore R. Johnson: If We Are Brave | UNUM Series

We claim to be a nation founded on an idea. But, especially in these times of civic rupture, are we even all talking about the same idea?

Contributing Washington Post opinion writer Dr. Ted Johnson joins us again to discuss his beautiful, powerful new book “If We are Brave: Essays of Black Americana.”

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Up First from NPR - Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump’s Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid

Federal workers must decide today whether to accept an offer to resign. After calling for the US to take over Gaza, President Trump has also promised an announcement about the West Bank, and humanitarian programs around the world are being shut down as most USAID workers have been put on leave.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S10 Bonus: Nikita Shamgunov, Neon

Nikita Shamgunov is a native of Russia, coming to the US for grad school in 2005. Eventually he worked at Microsoft on the SQL Server product. A fun fact - Nikita quit business school on the first day, and decided to join Facebook and find his future co-founder. All of this worked out, and he and his co-founder built SingleStore, which is one of the highest valued companies at YC. Outside of tech, he was a semi-professional athlete in Ping Pong, achieving the status of Top 10 in Washington State back when he was at Microsoft.

Nikita completed his "tour of duty" at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways.

This is the creation story of Neon.

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Bay Curious - Tips and Tricks to Snag California Campsites

Reserving camp sites in California can feel sometimes feel as hard as scoring Taylor Swift concert tickets. KQED's Senior Editor for Audience News, Carly Severn, breaks down some tips and tricks so you can score a great spot this summer.


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Curious City - How Filipino food entrepreneurs’ “sense of community” help them thrive

Chicago is a city of food as much as it is a city of neighborhoods and cultural communities. Last episode, we talked about how Chicago may not have a concentrated Filipino enclave, in the way neighborhoods like Chinatown and Humboldt Park are cultural hubs. But the community comes together and supports each other nonetheless. And Filipino food in Chicago is definitely a part of that. This cultural cuisine has been on the scene for a long time, but only in the past few years has it really started to get its flowers. It’s even grabbed the attention of the Michelin Guide and James Beard Awards. Today, we taste some creations by serial entrepreneur, Francis Almeda as well as chef and owner of A Taste of the Philippines, Kathy Vega Hardy. And we talk about why Vega Hardy says “a sense of community” goes a long way for Filipino food entrepreneurs in the city.

The Intelligence from The Economist - Leeward: we meet South Korea’s probable president

We meet the opposition leader who is likely to be the next president. Cleaning up the domestic mess after an alleged coup would seem easy compared with his tasks on the international stage. Our correspondent reports on renewed violence in Colombia; again, or still, it is about cocaine (10:10). And remembering the ups and downs of Marianne Faithfull, a beloved British singer (17:40).


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.6.25

Alabama

  • Sen. Tuberville re-offers The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act
  • AG Marshall talks more about DEI and the big corporations pushing it
  • Sen. Britt rips into Democrats opposed to exposing Government corruption
  • A bill passes senate committee that restructures the state VA leadership
  • New VA clinic is in the works for the Wiregrass Region of Alabama

National

  • Trump signs EO to ends funding of transgender athletes in sports
  • Pam Bondi sworn is as new Attorney General, issues several directives
  • Raids by ICE conducted in Colorado to arrest Venezuelan gang members
  • DOGE uncovers USAID payments to media outlets with leftist bias
  • Democrats in Congress are ranting and raving over Elon Musk and DOGE