Month: August 2025

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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One

Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.

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Consider This from NPR - A tricky reporting assignment: covering your own workplace

The job of a media reporter is to examine the role the press plays in our democracy, and the choices the large corporations operating newsrooms are making every day. It's a tough assignment, even more so when it means covering the place you work.

For this week's reporter's notebook series, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik talks about how he navigates his beat, reporting on his employer and the larger media moment we find ourselves in right now.

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PBS News Hour - World - News Wrap: Dozens more aid-seekers in Gaza killed by Israeli forces, witnesses say

In our news wrap Saturday, Israeli forces killed at least 10 people after opening fire near two aid distribution sites in Gaza, Russia claims it captured a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, former Colombian President Uribe was sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and bribery, and four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
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PBS News Hour - World - Former Venezuelan detainees speak out about abuse in El Salvador’s mega-prison

In July, a three-country deal released 238 Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration had rounded up and sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. Now, some of the freed men are speaking out about the physical and psychological abuse they endured while locked up. Ali Rogin speaks with ProPublica reporter Melissa Sanchez for more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
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PBS News Hour - Health - New book explores the science behind ‘super aging’ and longer, healthier lifespans

Imagine a future where the aging process can be delayed and more people live active, healthy and disease-free lives well into their 90s. That reality may be sooner than you think, according to Dr. Eric Topol, author of the new book “Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity.” Ali Rogin speaks with Topol about the rapidly advancing science of healthy aging. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
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Newshour - Trump envoy meets with Israeli hostage families

Hamas releases a shocking video of an emaciated Israeli hostage as the US special envoy says they are determined to push for a deal to end this war rather than reach a temporary ceasefire.

We speak to one of the Israeli hostage families who met US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Tel Aviv.

Also on the programme: a court in southern India has sentenced a prominent politician to life in prison for raping one of his domestic staff; and would you use an app allowing guests to buy a seat at your wedding for €150?

(Photo: Steve Witkoff meets with Israeli hostage family members on August 2, 2025. Credit: The Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters)

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Bonus: When the French Bombed Greenpeace

Some disputes resist an easy “good vs. evil” dynamic, but when one side calls their plans “Operation Satanique,” it’s not too hard to figure who “the baddies” are.

Guest: Dan Kois, Slate writer.

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