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Up First from NPR - CDC Meeting On Vaccines, Fed Rate Cuts, Kimmel Suspended
Vaccine advisers to the CDC meet today to decide on COVID boosters and childhood shots, with new members raising doubts about long-settled science. The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter point to shore up a slowing job market, even as President Trump pushes for deeper cuts. And ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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The Daily - The Fired C.D.C. Director Testifies
For weeks, fights have been escalating between top scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., culminating in his accusation that the agency’s top official, Dr. Susan Monarez, was untrustworthy.
Dr. Monarez went before a Senate committee on Wednesday to give her side of the story.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who covers health policy for The New York Times, discusses the testimony and the rift that the hearing exposed within the Republican Party over how far to go to support Mr. Kennedy and his vaccine agenda.
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Start Here - A Loan at Last: Fed Cuts Interest Rates
The Federal Reserve announces the first in what could be a series of interest rate cuts. Former CDC Director Susan Monarez tells Congress that RFK Jr. had her fired because she wasn’t willing to sign off on vaccine policy changes sight-unseen. And Israel’s military moves in on Gaza, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians leave town.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Wary pharma: AstraZeneca sours on UK
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has paused a £200m investment in Britain and could move its primary listing to America. Can the UK maintain its status as a “life-science superpower”? Why autonomous air wings are the future of war in the sky. And how scientists in the Caribbean are restoring the barrier reef through “coral IVF”.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Year 1900
The year 1900 was a pivotal year in world history. It was the end of the 19th century and on the cusp of the 20th century.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 9.18.25
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The Daily Signal - Jimmy Kimmel Pulled, Kash Patel Boxes with House Dems, Antifa Designated Terrorist Org. | Sept. 18, 2025
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First Things Podcast - Faith in State Politics (ft. Cameron Sexton)
In the first episode of While We're At It, Cameron Sexton joins in to talk about his work as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and Speaker of the state House.
Talk Python To Me - #519: Data Science Cloud Lessons at Scale
Today on Talk Python: What really happens when your data work outgrows your laptop. Matthew Rocklin, creator of Dask and cofounder of Coiled, and Nat Tabris a staff software engineer at Coiled join me to unpack the messy truth of cloud-scale Python. During the episode we actually spin up a 1,000 core cluster from a notebook, twice! We also discuss picking between pandas and Polars, when GPUs help, and how to avoid surprise bills. Real lessons, real tradeoffs, shared by people who have built this stuff. Stick around.
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