Global News Podcast - The Happy Pod: The magic of festive airport reunions

Videos capturing the joy and emotion of families reuniting at Dublin Airport for the festive season have received thousands of views online. We speak to the team behind the cameras to find out why they wanted to share the messages of love. Also: meet the 'bubbliest' wedding judge in Texas. Judge Adam Swartz has gone viral for his ceremonies. We visit two rare grapefruit trees serving as a memorial to a community elder, who brought them from Grenada to the UK. Plus, a new world record for the number of golden retrievers in the same place at the same time and... knock, knock... it's time for a Christmas carol. Our weekly collection of inspiring, uplifting and happy news from around the world.

Presenter: Celia Hatton. Music composed by Iona Hampson.

WSJ What’s News - What’s News in Markets: Memory Chips, Corporate Drama, Mega IPO

What did Micron’s earnings tell us about the AI boom? And what’s behind the corporate drama at Warner Bros. Discovery and Lululemon? Plus, does Medline's IPO splash bode well for future offerings? Host Francesca Fontana discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.


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CBS News Roundup - 12/20/2025 | Weekend Roundup

On the final episode of the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes gets details from CBS’s Tom Hanson on charges filed against the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor. CBS's Caitlin Huey-Burns with the latest on what's happening with the Affordable Care Act health subsidies that affect some 20 million people. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a look at the horrific sex assaults upon girls and women in Haiti amid that nation's occupation by gangs.

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Global News Podcast - First batch of Epstein files released

After months of political wrangling, parts of the long-awaited Epstein files have been released by the US Justice Department. The trove consists of thousands of documents related to the late sex-offender. Pictures include the former US President Bill Clinton, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - Britain's former prince, musicians Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson. Being named or pictured in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing. The justice department did not release all existing files, and the published ones were heavily redacted, prompting frustrated reactions from survivors of Epstein's abuse.

Also: the US carries out dozens of strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria. Anti-government youth protesters in South Korea are taking cues from the American right's MAGA movement. Italy announces a fee for tourists to visit the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Putin vows revenge on Ukraine after an oil tanker was blown up in the Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians tell the BBC they were sexually abused in Israeli prisons. And how a lost radio play by Tennessee Williams was found more than four decades after his death, and has now been heard for the first time.

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CBS News Roundup - 12/19/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition

The Justice Department released some -- but not all -- of the files on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Investigators are trying to determine why the suspect in the Brown University and M.I.T. professor shootings allegedly carried out the attacks. There's unsettled weather across the U.S., which could affect holiday travel.

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WSJ What’s News - DOJ Releases First Batch of Jeffrey Epstein Files

P.M. Edition for Dec. 19. The Justice Department releases the first batch of files tied to its investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. home sales rise to their highest level since February. And WSJ’s Kelly Crow explains how the art market is adapting younger buyers. Sabrina Siddiqui hosts.


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Newshour - The US justice department releases Epstein files

The US justice department has released hundreds of thousands of highly anticipated documents related to Jeffrey Epstein ahead of a Congressional deadline. The issue divided the Republican Party after the department initially refused to publish the files, despite President Trump's campaign promises.   Also in the programme: President Putin says Russia is ready to end the conflict in Ukraine, but only on his terms; and a comet, that's only the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system, is making its closest approach to Earth.

Photo: One of the Epstein files released today in Washington, DC USA Credit: US Department of Justice

The Journal. - It’s Almost 2026. How’s the Economy?

How did the U.S. economy do in 2025? With unemployment ticking up, tariffs shaking up global trade and the stock market booming, it has been hard to make sense of it all. Ryan Knutson talks with three WSJ economics reporters–Justin Lahart, Rachel Wolfe and Jeanne Whalen– about the state of the economy as we wrap up the year, and about what to expect in 2026. 


Further Listening:

- The Era of AI Layoffs Has Begun

- Is the Economy Getting Better or Worse? The Fed Says It's Hard to Tell

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Consider This from NPR - The cream of the slop: this year’s AI highlights

2025 has proved that artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping online reality and that the “slop” is here to stay. 



NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel and Shannon Bond have spent much of the year rolling around in that slop and join host Scott Detrow to break down some of the highlights and how to sort the real from the fake.

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