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Up First from NPR - Healthcare Subsides Expire, Trump and Minnesota, Mamdani Takes Office In NYC

Health insurance costs jump for millions after pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies expired overnight.
The Trump administration freezes child care funding nationwide after targeting Minnesota over unproven fraud claims tied to Somali-run day care centers.
And New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is sworn in at midnight as he prepares to take office.

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(0:00) Introduction
(02:33) Healthcare Subsidies Expire
(05:53) Trump and Minnesota
(10:06) Mamdani Takes Office in NYC

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.1.26

Alabama

  • Congressman Aderholt says states must be held accountable for funding programs and avoiding massive fraud in MN
  • Sen. Britt writes for 1819 a review of past year legislative wins in DC
  • State Rep. Chris England offers bill so voters decide on death penalty or not
  • Former president of Coastal AL Community College charged with ethics violation
  • Madison County Commission Chairman to retire early due to kidney disease
  • Crimson Tide plays at Rose Bowl, Coach Deboer's first time at such an event

National

  • President Trump will withdraw National Guard from Chicago, LA and Portland after appeals court ruling
  • Trump enters New Year with promise to address the massive fraud in MN
  • MN Governor says Trump looking into fraud in order to shutdown programs
  • Citizen journalist Nick Shirley says he is now getting death threats for exposing the MN daycare center fraud
  • DOJ to review 5.3 M pages of data related to Jeffrey Epstein in order to release in compliance with new law
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Feeding Ghosts’ is a graphic memoir grappling with generational trauma

As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. Tessa Hulls’ grandmother, Sun Yi, was a dissident journalist in Shanghai who faced intense political persecution during the Chinese Communist Revolution. In today’s episode, Hulls tells Here & Now’s Scott Tong that her grandmother’s trauma often cast a shadow over their family – one she decided to finally face in her new graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts. It’s a reexamining of Hulls’ matriarchal lineage, of Chinese history and of generational love and healing.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - 2025: The Music of the Year

2025 might not have been a great year —but the music sure was stellar.

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Tech Won't Save Us - How Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz Pelly [Replay]

Paris Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how Spotify changes how we listen to music and the broader impacts it has on the wider music industry. This episode previously aired in February 2025.

Liz Pelly is a music journalist and the author of Mood Machine.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Production for this episode was originally by Eric Wickham.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Shout-out to the book The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor

  • You can read an excerpt of Liz’s book in Harper’s.

  • The CEO of Suno AI said people “don’t enjoy” making music.

  • The Edmonton Public Library was mentioned for spearheading some cool projects featuring local musicians - combat capitalism by supporting the cool projects operating out of your own local library!

  • Hoopla works with local libraries to share music (and Libby partners with libraries to share audiobooks)

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Global News Podcast - Trump removes National Guard from some US cities

Donald Trump says he is withdrawing the National Guard from the Democrat-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland after the Supreme Court blocked the deployment of troops for policing duties. But the president said federal forces would "come back" if crime rates go up.

Also: President Volodymyr Zelensky says only 10 per cent of a peace deal with Russia remains to be agreed, but Ukraine is not prepared to sign a "weak agreement" that would prolong the war. We speak to a Syrian refugee who spent years living in Europe but is now ready to move home. The discoveries that could solve the mystery of a medieval Welsh cemetery. And a campaign to build more toilets for women in the Japanese parliament. Photo credit: Reuters.

The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk

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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO500: A New Study Suggests Brain Imaging Might Have Significant Flaws

Brain pics, or they didn't happen? There's a recent study that demonstrates that some brain region activity might interact differently with oxygen than previously assumed. This could upend significant neuroscience research spanning decades. Thankfully SIO has Dr. Jenessa Seymour to come in and break it all down for us!

We start with a primer on the science of neuroimaging tools and the images they produce. How in the WORLD can we get a picture of a brain while a person is still alive? What are the things we need to know when evaluating scholarly articles or popular media coverage about the brain that uses these brain "scans" in discussing their results? And what do we need to see next to support the findings of this study that could have incredible ramifications across our understanding of the brain?

Jenessa's brain sMRI

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PBS News Hour - World - Trump signals Russia blocking path to peace as CIA rejects Putin’s drone attack claim

The CIA has assessed that Ukraine was not targeting a residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack, a claim that Putin told President Trump, and that Trump seemed to accept. Trump now suggests that he agrees with European leaders that it's Russia blocking the path to a peace agreement. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Angela Stent. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy