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On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup," host Allison Keyes gets the latest on the dueling battles in California and Texas over redistricting in the nation, from CBS's Omar Villafranca. We'll hear from CBS's Jo Ling Kent about just how much AI there will be in schools as classes begin across the nation. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about safety and policing in Washington, DC.
Women were prosecuted for experiencing miscarriage or stillbirth even before the Supreme Courtswept away the protections of Roe v. Wade. But these prosecutions have ramped up since, in both red and blue states. The stakes are ramping up too, with legislators introducing bills that would treat abortion as homicide, potentially subjecting patients to the death penalty. This week, Mark Joseph Stern talks with Karen Thompson, the legal director of Pregnancy Justice. They discuss what happens when the state decides a fetus, or even an embryo, has equal or greater rights than pregnant people. As fetal personhood legislation moves ahead in more and more red states, this concept is also seeping into the law in blue states. Women have been jailed because their pregnancies ended in a way the state disliked. Grandmothers have been prosecuted decades after pregnancy loss thanks to investigators using forensic genetic genealogy to hunt them down. As Thompson explains, a frightening frontier in the battle for bodily autonomy and reproductive rights is here, and it demands our attention.
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Are office temperatures set too low in the summer for women to be comfortable?
This idea has featured in news headlines and comedy videos which describe the summer as a “women’s winter”.
But is there evidence behind the claims of a gender bias in air conditioning?
To find out, we speak to Gail Brager, Director of the Center for Environmental Design Research at UC Berkeley, and Boris Kingma, a senior researcher at CNO, the Netherlands Applied Research Institute.
Presenter: Lizzy McNeill
Producer: Nicholas Barrett
Series producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge
Sound mix: James Beard
Editor: Richard Vadon
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- Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
- Alienation and AI feat. Andrew
- Objectivity in Journalism
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30
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Law & Order: Criminal Justice System is back with Season Two, turning its focus to a threat that hides in plain sight, harder to predict and even harder to stop: terrorism. Hear the real stories from those who lived it, worked it, and risked everything to confront it.
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United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, says the famine in Gaza City is a 'failure of humanity' after a UN-backed body raised its food insecurity status in parts of the territory to the most severe. Also: FBI agents search the office and home of President Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton; the head of NATO has called for robust security guarantees for Ukraine; and scientists discover a new species of dinosaur with a sail-like structure along its back.
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Multiple deaths when a tour bus lost control and rolled over in western New York while returning from Niagara Falls. Former Trump ally-turned critic John Bolton's home and office raided by the FBI. Justice Department releases transcripts of recent interview with Jeffrey Epstein confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell.
CBS News Correspondent Christopher Cruise with tonight's World News Roundup.
