Month: May 2025

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The NewsWorthy - Budget Bill Passes, RIP Pennies & Kermit’s Words of Wisdom – Friday, May 23, 2025

The news to know for Friday, May 23, 2025!

We’re talking about the next step for President Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill.”

Also, the Supreme Court’s ruling about religious charter schools, and everything you need to know about Memorial Day — from the weather and travel trends to the events meant to honor fallen heroes.

Plus, the findings from RFK Junior’s report on childhood illnesses, how the penny is disappearing after more than two centuries, and Kermit the Frog’s message for graduates at a unique commencement ceremony.

Those stories and even more news to know in about 10 minutes! 

 

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Pod Save America - Did Republicans Just Lose the House?

In the middle of the night, the House narrowly passes Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," a witch's brew of tax cuts for the wealthiest and benefit cuts for the neediest, sending it on to the Senate. Jon and Dan talk about what Democrats can do to stop the bill—and the upside of Republicans passing something so massively unpopular, Trump's "white genocide" show-and-tell for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and the damning new data showing why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election. Then, Dan talks with Rep. LaMonica McIver about getting slapped with criminal charges by Trump's Justice Department, and what it means for the executive branch to be targeting legislators for doing their job.

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The Best One Yet - ✊ “The Leaders Pod” — Our 3 Best Stories on Legendary Business Leaders

Heading into Memorial Day weekend, we whipped up the top pop-biz stories about legendary business leaders from the last year:


#1. Dolly Parton launched a new album, a food brand, & 78th birthday… So we jumped into her $600M Dollywood conglomerate.


#2. Bill Gates’ former assistant is now wealthier than him… It’s a lesson on risk, reward, and makin’ money.


#3. Jony Ive designed the iPhone… and he just unveiled his next big (secret) thing.


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Short Wave - Flamingos: The Water-Bending Physics Masters

Riddle us this: Which animal is pink, curved beaked and a master of the physics required to create water tornadoes? If you guessed flamingos, you're right. New research out this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that across a range of harsh environments, flamingos have become masters — of physics, fluid dynamics and so much more — all in pursuit of their filter-fed prey. Short Wave host Regina G. Barber sits down with biomechanics researcher Victor Ortega Jiménez to hear all of the incredibly involved lengths these birds go through to get their prey.

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NPR's Book of the Day - With new novel, Ocean Vuong says he wants to reframe America as a place of salvage

Ocean Vuong's debut novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous placed him in an elite club of American writers. He teaches at NYU and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other honors. But before all this, the author was raised by working-class Vietnamese immigrant parents in Hartford, Connecticut. Vuong's new novel The Emperor of Gladness takes place in a similar environment and centers on an unlikely friendship between a 19 year-old college dropout named Hai and an 82-year-old with dementia named Grazina. In today's episode, Vuong joins NPR's Ari Shapiro for a conversation about reframing our view of the United States and the American dream, describing ugly things in a beautiful way, and Vuong's experience working in close quarters at a fast food restaurant.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Target, Klarna and Sesame Street’s new addy

Can you tell me how to get... how to get to Indicators of the Week? This week's econ roundup looks at Target's sagging sales, Klarna's pay-later problem, and Sesame Street's new streaming address.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Inside OpenAI’s Empire

OpenAI started as a non-profit dedicated to building safe A.I. Now, they’re obsessed with building artificial general intelligence by any means necessary - even if they don’t quite know what that is. 

Guest: Karen Hao, reporter and author of “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI”


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What Could Go Right? - The Progress Report: Crime Plummets in 2025!

On this week's Progress Report, Zachary and Emma serve up a fresh batch of good news you probably missed: U.S. crime rates are dropping to record lows, a bold new law is aimed at taking down revenge porn and AI deepfakes in just 48 hours, and Guinea-Bissau is throwing its very first art biennale, despite having almost no galleries or art schools.


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