1A - The Lingering Effects Of Wildfire Smoke

The effects of climate change are being felt more than ever. We've seen the devastation caused by storms and floods.

Most recently, we watched the West Coast go up in flames flames, displacing thousands and destroying homes.

But what about what lingers behind? What stays in the air that we breathe?

Smoke can have a real impact on our health. As more of our forests start to burn due to increased temperatures, more smoke is going to be floating around our country and world.

We discuss the effects of fire smoke in the short and long term.

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CBS News Roundup - 02/18/2025 | World News Roundup

US-Russia talks begin on Ukraine's future, but without Ukraine's input. 18 hurt when Delta plane flips over in Toronto. Bitter cold for much of the nation. CBS News Correspondent Cami McCormick has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - ‘Don’t Go To That Part Of Town’: Breaking Chicago’s Segregation Messaging

Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the country. It’s driven by policy decisions over the decades, but it’s also reinforced by personal networks and perception rather than experience. A new book, titled “Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How To Disrupt It,” uses first-person testimonials to explore how racist messaging can perpetuate this dynamic. Reset sits down with co-authors Tonika Johnson and Maria Krysan to hear how this book came to be, and how it could inform disrupting segregation. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

The Intelligence from The Economist - Get your Strait facts: China’s quiet Taiwan push

We investigate China’s under-the-radar push to get other countries to change their official language on Taiwan’s independence. Would it make a difference in a bid to reunify by force? The case of a nurse jailed for killing babies exposes deep problems with British justice (10:10). And how top footballers get a smaller slice of their clubs’ take than they once did (17:35).


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Up First from NPR - Ukraine Talks, U.S. Health Agency Cuts, NYC Mayor Eric Adams Fallout

American and Russian officials meet in Saudi Arabia for talks on negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. The Trump administration has started making broad cuts to federal health agencies. Days after the Justice Department moved to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, four of his top aides and deputy mayors announced their resignations.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.18.25

Alabama

  1. Congressman Aderholt co-sponsors bill to redefine birthright citizenship
  2. Public records show the ADPH spending $18M on push for covid vaccine
  3. Eagle Forum of AL opposed to bill that restructures the VA department
  4. Baldwin County sheriff says ICE won't use their beds for illegal aliens due to "standards"
  5. US Postal Inspection Service offers $100K reward for arrest of Rhashema Shackleford wanted on mail and bank fraud

National

  1. First legal challenge to Trump's firing decisions now before SCOTUS
  2. District judge to rule on DOGE team access to government systems
  3. DOGE team finds 24M names in database that are over age of 100
  4. Border czar Homan says illegal crossings are outstandingly low
  5. JD Vance speech from Munich Germany taking on the dangers of eliminating free speech


Honestly with Bari Weiss - Can Rick Caruso Save LA?

A lot of people are wondering if things in LA would look different if Rick Caruso had won the mayoral race against Karen Bass in 2022. If he had been mayor when devastating fires began in the city last month, would he have prevented them from consuming about 40,000 acres, which is more than twice the area of Manhattan?


At the time he ran, many quietly supported the billionaire real estate mogul—scared to come out publicly against the candidate backed by Barack Obama and celebrities like Shonda Rhimes and Arianna Grande. But now many in LA are texting me, saying they wish he had won. Indeed, some of these lifelong Democrats are now saying that they are Republicans, or the very least they’re whatever Karen Bass isn't.


Caruso may have lost then, but he’s acting now like a de facto public official, launching and funding a nonprofit he calls Steadfast LA. He’s leveraged his connections to get companies from Netflix to Amazon to J.P. Morgan to help restore critical infrastructure in the city, he’s worked on how to quickly rebuild homes with the help of AI, and he’s figuring out ways to use America’s most advanced technology to prevent future fires.


Now, everyone in California is watching to see what Caruso does next. Will he run for mayor again? Or perhaps even governor of California? And most pressingly, can Caruso figure out a way to save Los Angeles?


We also talk about ethical issues around inmates and private-sector firefighters, and about hot-button topics in California—like Trump's plans for immigration, or how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies and trans issues are affecting public schools.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Gaugamela

In the year 331 BC, one of the most important battles in world history took place. 

The vastly outnumbered forces of Alexander the Great lined up against those of Darius III, leader of the Persian Empire. 

The outcome of the battle didn’t just change the map of the world in the 4th century BC; it changed the world in a way that can still be seen today. 

Learn more about the Battle of Gaugamela and how it changed the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Yoni Appelbaum, “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity” (Random House, 2025)

We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are inaccessible to all but the very wealthy. But, in America, this wasn’t always the case. Though for most of world history your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn’t like your lot in life, you could find a better location and reinvent yourself there. Americans moved to new places with unprecedented frequency, and for 200 years, that remarkable mobility was the linchpin of American economic and social opportunity. Then, as the twentieth century wound down, economic and geographic stasis set in, producing deep social polarization. 

What happened? In Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity (Random House, 2025), Yoni Appelbaum introduces us to the reformers who destroyed American mobility with discriminatory zoning laws, federal policies, and community gatekeeping. From the first zoning laws enacted to ghettoize Chinese Americans in nineteenth-century Modesto, California, to the toxic blend of private-sector discrimination and racist public policy that trapped Black families in mid-century Flint, Michigan, Appelbaum shows us how Americans lost the freedom to move. Even Jane Jacobs’s well-intentioned fight against development in Greenwich Village choked off opportunity for strivers—and started a trend that would put desirable neighborhoods out of reach for most of us. And yet he also offers glimmers of hope. Perhaps our problems as a nation aren’t as intractable as they seem. If we tear down the barriers to mobility and return to the social and economic dynamism Americans invented, we might be able to rediscover the tolerance and possibility that made us distinctive.

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