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July 4, 2025

Freakonomics Radio Archives - Freakonomics - “This Country Kicks My Ass All the Time”

Cory Booker on the politics of fear, the politics of hope, and how to split the difference.

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July 4, 2025

Headlines From The Times - National Pride Dips, Tesla Struggles, Tinder Adds Facial Scans, and L.A. Fireworks Options

A new Gallup poll shows national pride is dropping—especially among Democrats and Gen Z. Tesla sales continue to decline amid political backlash tied to Elon Musk. Tinder rolls out mandatory facial scan verification in California to fight scams. And despite growing divisions, Fourth of July fireworks celebrations are still happening across L.A., from the Hollywood Bowl to Catalina Island.

July 4, 2025

Marketplace All-in-One - Bytes: Week in Review – AI regulation ban dies, renewable energy credits hit and Amazon’s millionth robot

On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” Marketplace’s Nova Safo and Paresh Dave, senior writer at WIRED, discuss Amazon releasing its 1 millionth robot at one of its warehouses. Plus, lawmakers contended with provisions dealing with artificial intelligence and renewable energy in that big tax and spending bill, recently passed by Congress, that consumed Washington this week.

July 4, 2025

The Daily - How The Megabill Will Change America

After months of debate, weeks of tense negotiations and 24 hours of Republican arm-twisting, President Trump has muscled his giant domestic-policy bill through both chambers of Congress.

It’s a major legislative victory for the president that paves the way for much of his second-term agenda, and it will have profound impacts across the country.

The Times journalists Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren and Margot Sanger-Katz discuss what the legislation changes, and those whose lives it will change the most.

Guest:

Tony Romm, a reporter covering economic policy and the Trump administration for The New York Times, based in Washington.
Andrew Duehren, who writes about tax policy for The New York Times from Washington.
Margot Sanger-Katz, a reporter for The New York Times who covers health care policy and government spending.

Background reading:

Trump’s policy bill cleared Congress after House Republicans quelled revolt from some of their members.
Our reporters answered nine questions about the bill, including who benefits and who gets hurt.
See how the bill could affect your taxes, health care and other finances.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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July 4, 2025

NPR's Book of the Day - Kevin Kwan explores race and identity in ‘Sex and Vanity’ and ‘Lies and Weddings’

Today's encore episode features two interviews with Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians series. First, former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro spoke to the writer in 2020 about Sex and Vanity, exploring identity through the lens of a biracial character and setting a new trilogy between Europe and the U.S. Then, Here & Now's Robin Young asks Kwan about his newest novel, Lies and Weddings, and his thoughts on the fascination with wealth and power in literature.

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July 4, 2025

The Intelligence from The Economist - Oh Keir! Labour’s torrid first year

After a landslide victory and promises for radical renewal, Britain’s Labour government is failing in policy and popularity. Our correspondents explain why. Nearly a year after the despotic prime minister of Bangladesh fled, an interview with its new leader on the country’s complex challenges. And why other carmakers struggle to catch up with Ferrari.

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July 4, 2025

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Terrifying Tale of Aum Shinrikyo, Chapter Two: “Save The World By Ending It”

As the Aum Shinrikyo movements gains national, then global, attention, the founder Shoko Asahara begins to move his followers in a darker direction. Convinced that the world can only truly be saved through mass casualty events, Asahara first predicts massive disasters -- and then orders his followers to create these events themselves. In chapter two of this strange two-part series, Ben and Matt learn how Aum committed multiple acts of terror, murder, extortion and fraud leading up to their infamous sarin attacks on the Tokyo subway... and what happened to the cult in the aftermath.

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July 4, 2025

The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 7.4.25

Alabama

GOP House members for AL all vote in favor of passing the Big Beautiful Bill
AL Supreme Court rules in favor of police immunity in Selma lawsuit
Homewood Council member and mayoral candidate call on ALEA to release body camera footage to family of Jabari Peoples
The mayor of Five Points, Jeff Monroe, to run for House District 37 seat
Former president of AL Baptist Children's Home, Paul Miller, dies at age of 83
AG Marshall praises 1819 News for coverage of legal fight over VCAP law

National

SCOTUS to consider state laws that ban transgender athletes in female sports
Dept. of Labor reports 147K new jobs on payroll for month of June
Paramount and CBS to settle with Trump over deceptive editing of interview
EPA director places 144 employees on leave for undermining Trump agenda
Border czar Homan says BBB will help greatly in deportation efforts
House Speaker delivers victory speech after House passes Big Beautiful Bill right before July 4th

July 4, 2025

Money Girl - Should My First Home Be an Investment Property?

Laura answers a listener's question about the pros and cons of buying a rental property before a first home.

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July 4, 2025

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Chinese Communist Revolution

The 19th Century wasn’t a good one for China. It was marked by the nation being taken advantage of by foreign powers and the signing of lopsided treaties.

The 20th Century started out promising, but eventually devolved into a series of warlords and a civil war between two major forces for control of the country, on top of the Japanese occupation of most of the country.

When the dust settled in 1949, the victors were the Communists. China and the world haven’t been the same since.

Learn more about the Chinese Communist Revolution, why it happened, and how the Communists won on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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