From the BBC World Service: The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, are being sued by victims and family members of victims in the October 2023 attack in Israel. They're accusing Binance of knowingly enabling terrorist groups like Hamas to move more than $1 billion through its platform. Also: a slowdown at Serbia's Russian-owned oil refinery, growing risks to European undersea cables, and rerouted flights after an Ethiopian volcano eruption.
WSJ Minute Briefing - Amazon Bets You’ll Buy Anything, Even a Car, Online
Plus: Peace talks to end the war in Ukraine enter a new phase, as a U.S. army official meets with a Russian delegation. And House Speaker Mike Johnson warns the White House that most Republicans are opposed to extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. Caitlin McCabe hosts.
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Cato Podcast - Energy Realism: Climate Policy Meets Actual Economics
Cato's Chad Davis and Travis Fisher examine the gulf between symbolic climate pledges and the real-world complexities of energy use — from EV carbon costs to fossil-fueled resilience against natural disasters. They argue that the “climate homicide” narrative misreads the data, and that abundant, affordable energy remains humanity’s greatest defense against climate risk.
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Up First from NPR - Comey and James Indictments Dismissed, New Ukraine Peace Plan, Pressure On Venezuela
A federal judge dismissed the indictments President Trump ordered up against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The judge found the prosecutor in the case was improperly appointed.
Europeans have offered their own proposal to end the war in Ukraine. How is it different from President Trump’s 28-point proposal?
Also, the Trump administration named Venezuela’s president the leader of a terror group.
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WSJ What’s News - The U.S. Economy Is Hooked on AI Spending
A.M. Edition for Nov. 25. Talks to end the war in Ukraine move into a new phase, as a top U.S. Army official meets with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi. WSJ national security reporter Robbie Gramer breaks down how peace talks got to this point. Plus, WSJ economics reporter Konrad Putzier unpacks how a reversal in AI euphoria could hit the U.S. economy hard. And Amazon bets that customers are finally ready to buy big-ticket items like cars and Chanel bags on its website. Caitlin McCabe hosts.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Season Favorite – Emmanuel Straschnov, Bubble
Emmanuel Straschnov grew up in rural France, which is interestingly enough where he started doing computer stuff (he mentioned there wasn't much else to do in the 90's). He grew up sailing, as he lived next to the shore in Normandy. He never really thought he would end up coding, but after obtaining his MBA, he ended up doing just that. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 children. He mentions that most of his hobby time is devoted to them, but on occasion, he likes to travel, continue sailing, and to sing.
Many years ago, Emmanuel noticed that there were a lot of people searching for technical founders, and using services to find technical founders. He thought this to be wrong, as many people have product ideas and just need a product to help them build it... so, he created something just for them.
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Native America Calling - Tuesday, November 25, 2025 – For all its promise, AI is a potential threat to culture
On the cusp of what could be a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), some researchers are urging caution and the need for deliberate controls to keep the developing technology from robbing Indigenous people of their cultures and sovereignty. A project with three universities provides a framework of standards to prevent AI from stripping Native Americans and all other Indigenous peoples of their right to control images, language, cultural knowledge, and other components of their identities they’ve worked so hard to retain. We’ll hear about the potential benefits and threats of AI to Native people.
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Danielle Boyer (Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), robotics inventor
Randy Kekoa Akee (Native Hawaiian), Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development at Harvard University
Michael Running Wolf (Lakota and Cheyenne), community leader in AI research
Crystal Hill-Pennington, professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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Marketplace All-in-One - The federal data and tools that “died” this year
In the Trump administration's efforts to shrink and realign the federal government, datasets on climate, health and demographics have disappeared. Some have been scrubbed from public view, others may not be collected anymore.
This data supported apps and interactive tools many researchers relied upon.
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Denice Ross, senior advisor with the Federation of American Scientists and former chief data scientist for the U.S., who recently wrote a tribute to the data that's been lost.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: How Rigging Elections Works: Mexico, 1988
While democracy isn't always predictable, one thing's for sure -- no matter who wins an election, for any party, in any country, some part of the population will claim the game is rigged. That's what happened in Mexico in 1988, when Carlos Salinas de Gortari became president in a hotly-disputed election. For years rumors circulated about the illegal actions that led to this outcome, an opposition parties often accused Gortari's party of rigging the vote. And, in 2004, another person stepped forward to confirm the election was rigged. This wasn't a fringe journalist, either -- it was former President of Mexico Miguel de la Madrid, Gortari's predecessor, who had worked to ensure his chosen candidate 'won' the vote. Tune in to learn more about this strange story ... and what makes it so important today.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she’ll leave Congress amid a bitter split with Donald Trump and a looming primary fight. In Europe, allies cautiously welcome U.S. revisions to a Ukraine peace plan that once appeared to favor Russia. In California, UCLA is moving forward on its plan to build a 19-story student housing tower in Westwood that will ease the campus housing crunch, and 17 TV projects received California’s updated film tax credits, which is projected to boost the local economy and employ thousands.