What A Day

The Art Of The Steal

28 Sep 2020

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The New York Times published a bombshell report on two decades of Trump’s taxes, showing he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and in 2...

Antitrust Me

25 Sep 2020

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While Trump is casually threatening to be an all out dictator, the economic crisis he continues not to solve continues. New unemployment data show the...

Still No Justice For Breonna Taylor

24 Sep 2020

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Yesterday, the grand jury in Jefferson County, Kentucky announced that only one of the officers who shot at Breonna Taylor would be indicted… and th...

Naked Ballots & Afraid

23 Sep 2020

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America has passed the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths in the COVID-19 crisis, which was made far worse by Trump’s abjectly poor leadership. The FD...

Senate Racing Arizona

22 Sep 2020

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Arizona Senator Martha McSally said she will support a Senate vote when Trump nominates a Supreme Court Justice, but she might not have a chance to pa...

Ruth And Justice

21 Sep 2020

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Supreme Court Justice and gender equality pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 on Friday. The immediate response online and elsewh...

As Easy As Phase 1, 2, 3

18 Sep 2020

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Two pharma companies released information about their vaccine trials, including details on their timelines and specific metrics they’ll be using to ...

The Florida Key Demographic

17 Sep 2020

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Concerns about whether the Biden campaign is doing enough to speak to Latinx voters have grown in recent days following polling that suggests weakness...

When Police Pay

16 Sep 2020

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The city of Louisville, Kentucky has come to a $12 million settlement deal with the family of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police office...

Let's TikTok Business

15 Sep 2020

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Extreme weather continues in the US, with over 4.5 million acres burned across the West Coast and a Category 2 hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coas...

Fire, Wind & Fire

14 Sep 2020

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Wildfires raged on over the weekend in the West, with millions of acres burned, thousands displaced, and dozens of lives lost. Aside from fighting cli...

Surveilling The Police

11 Sep 2020

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Viral videos of police brutality against Black people have generated outrage, protest, and sustained national attention this year. We talk to Bijan St...

Coming Out Of The Woodward

10 Sep 2020

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Recorded interviews of Donald Trump by Bob Woodward show he understood the threat of coronavirus in February, while he insisted in public it would “...

One Simple Trick To Slim Down Your Relief Bill

09 Sep 2020

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The Rochester, NY police chief and other high ranking officers all resigned or took demotions yesterday, following protests over the police killing of...

Here Comes The Sunrise Movement

08 Sep 2020

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College students have returned to campuses, and so has coronavirus. Northeastern University suspended 11 students for partying, and will not refund th...

Vaxxers Without Borders

03 Sep 2020

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Joe Biden will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin later today, where he’ll meet with the family of Jacob Blake. We check in on the continued protests happenin...

Mr. Eviction Freeze

02 Sep 2020

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The CDC and the Health Department are moving to ban evictions through December for people who can’t pay because of the pandemic. New York City cave...

Class Of Covid-19

01 Sep 2020

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Joe Biden spoke in Pennsylvania yesterday, where he condemned violence of any kind at recent protests. Trump spoke at the White House yesterday, where...

Critical Mass

31 Aug 2020

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One man is now dead after a weekend of violence in Portland, Oregon, in which pro-Trump demonstrators drove through the city’s downtown taunting Bla...

The South Yawn

28 Aug 2020

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Trump closed out the RNC last night, with a meandering 70-minute long speech that saw him paint a rosy picture of his administration’s handling of C...

Game Off

27 Aug 2020

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Police arrested 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday for killing two protestors and injuring a third at demonstrations in Kenosha, Washington agains...

Bleakfast At Tiffany's

26 Aug 2020

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Last night’s Republican National Convention brought more speeches from Trump’s employees and family members, including First Lady Melania Trump, T...

Guilfoyle Salesman

25 Aug 2020

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Protestors gathered for a second night in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who is reportedly still in inte...

Do You Believe In Plasmagic

24 Aug 2020

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The Republican National Convention begins tonight, predominantly featuring speakers who are Trump’s employees or blood relatives. This weekend, Trum...

The Dude Abidens

21 Aug 2020

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Last night was the final night of the DNC, featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, former 2020 presidential candidates, and most notably, Joe Biden’s accepta...

Return Of Barack

20 Aug 2020

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Last night was the third night of the Democratic National Convention, featuring marquee speeches from VP pick Senator Kamala Harris and former Preside...

License To Jill

19 Aug 2020

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Last night was the second night of the DNC, featuring beautiful shots of delegates across our gorgeous country, as well as speeches from AOC, activis...

First Lady's Night

18 Aug 2020

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This year’s socially-distanced DNC began last night, with speeches from former First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, and more. Joe Bide...

DeJoy Division

17 Aug 2020

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The DNC was set to begin today in Wisconsin, but instead, it’s beginning in Zooms across America. We talked to Wisconsin Democrats Senator Tammy Bal...

No Post On Trump Days

14 Aug 2020

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This was the first week since March that the number of new unemployment claims in the US fell below one million. Tens of millions remain jobless and ...

Teacher Buffering

13 Aug 2020

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The last time we spoke with Monise Seward, a 6th grade special education teacher in Georgia, it was April and schools had just begun to tackle remote ...

Kamala As You Are

12 Aug 2020

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Senator Kamala Harris was announced as Biden’s VP pick yesterday, which will make her the first black woman and first Asian American to be a on majo...

Justice Democrats League

11 Aug 2020

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Five states hold primaries today, including Minnesota, where Rep. Ilhan Omar is running to keep her seat in Congress. The elections come a week after ...

New Executive Order

10 Aug 2020

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Trump signed a bunch of executive orders and actions over the weekend that he presented as a fix to our economic problems. But the reality is much les...

N-R-Ain't

07 Aug 2020

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New York’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association. AG Letitia James alleges that the NRA has ...

Convention Goes Electric

06 Aug 2020

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Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee for the DNC, and neither are other primetime speakers like President Barack Obama. A sized-down RNC will...

It's Been A Minute, Minneapolis

05 Aug 2020

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The Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the Minneapolis Police Department over a month ago, but achieving that goal requires getting a ballot in...

Work From Homeroom

04 Aug 2020

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The school year is officially beginning in some states and there have already been disruptions due to students and staff testing positive for Covid-19...

USPS We Can

03 Aug 2020

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Disruptions and delays to the postal service have prompted concern since so many people are planning to vote by mail this year. We break down what’s...

Can You Veep A Secret

31 Jul 2020

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The Biden campaign says they will announce his VP pick any day now. According to reports, over a dozen women are being vetted — some more seriously ...

I Don't Get No Relief

30 Jul 2020

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Rent is due next week, but we still don’t have a new relief bill to extend federal unemployment assistance and eviction protections. Negotiations ha...

In Tech We Antitrust

29 Jul 2020

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The CEO’s of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet will testify before Congress today in hearings that will examine whether their companies hurt con...

Moderna Medicine

28 Jul 2020

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Pharmaceutical company Moderna entered phase three trials of its Covid-19 vaccine, and plans to test the efficacy of their drug on 30,000 healthy part...

Jobless This Mess

27 Jul 2020

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Florida has now passed New York in total known coronavirus cases, making it the second worst-hit state behind California which is nearly twice its siz...

Landlord Szn

24 Jul 2020

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The federal eviction moratorium from the CARES Act expires today, leaving up to 12 million people vulnerable to eviction if they can’t pay rent. Tru...

Don't Burst My NBA Bubble

23 Jul 2020

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NBA games start next week with just 22 qualifying teams finishing off the season that the pandemic put on hold back in March. We interview Tania Gangu...

Makes No Census

22 Jul 2020

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Trump signed a memo yesterday that aims to omit undocumented immigrants from the census count. It seems like a way for Trump to side-step a Supreme Co...

Season's Briefings

21 Jul 2020

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Trump says he’s bringing back coronavirus briefings starting today. The largest teachers union in Florida is suing Governor Ron DeSantis for using a...

Portland Authority

20 Jul 2020

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Civil rights activists Rep. John Lewis and Minister CT Vivian passed away on Friday. Democrats in Congress are urging lawmakers to honor Lewis by pass...

Hack In The USSR

17 Jul 2020

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The US, Canada, and Britain are alleging that Russian cyberspies are trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research. In more upbeat pharma news, the bio...

The Perks Of Being A Walmarter

16 Jul 2020

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All 5,300 plus Walmarts and Sam’s Clubs nationwide will begin requiring shoppers to wear masks next week. On the state level, half of the governors ...

BCC The CDC

15 Jul 2020

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We talk to The Atlantic’s Ed Yong about how public health workers and officials are fighting the pandemic, and what we're now learning about the pot...

There's Something About Fauci

14 Jul 2020

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California is re-closing many of its businesses as cases continue to rise. LA County and San Diego County schools have agreed to cancel in-person lear...

May The Task Force Be With You

13 Jul 2020

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Arizona’s governor pushed back the start of the school year from early-August to mid-August since his state has the worst Covid-19 numbers in the na...

This Land Is Your Land

10 Jul 2020

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Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that much of eastern Oklahoma is Native American tribal land, and that the state of New York has the power to subpo...

The Endless Summer

09 Jul 2020

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As the summer weeks go by, and the virus rages on, the big question remains: How to go back to school in the fall.Trump caused a minor crisis by criti...

Operation Warp Speed Ahead

08 Jul 2020

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The Trump administration officially started the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization. “Operation Warp Speed,” the government’...

Aid In America

07 Jul 2020

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Emergency unemployment benefits included in the CARES Act are set to expire at the end of the month. With that deadline looming, and the health crisis...

Captain America: Culture War

06 Jul 2020

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Scientists worldwide want the World Health Organization to take a stronger stance on airborne transmission of COVID-19. In the US, records were set la...

Your Antibody Is A Wonderland

26 Jun 2020

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New antibody data from the CDC indicates that only 1 in 10 COVID-19 cases in the country have been identified. That still means more than 90 percent ...

It Takes Two Bills To Make Reform Go Right

25 Jun 2020

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Democrats in the Senate blocked a Republican police reform bill yesterday, and Democrats in the House are expected to bring their police reform bill t...

Meat The Packers

24 Jun 2020

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An estimated 25,000 cases of COVID-19 are tied to U.S. meatpacking plants, where employees work in close quarters and enclosed spaces. We speak with a...

Visas Banned in DC

23 Jun 2020

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Trump signed a new executive order yesterday temporarily barring new foreign workers from coming to the US until the end of the year. The tech industr...

To The Left, To The Left

22 Jun 2020

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New York, Virginia, and Kentucky have primaries on Tuesday. We speak with two progressive candidates for congress: Jamaal Bowman, who’s running agai...

DREAM On

19 Jun 2020

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The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can’ t immediately end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, because his administration’s reasons for...

The Amazing Trace

18 Jun 2020

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COVID-19 cases have plateaued in the US at around 20,000 a day as some states are seeing outbreaks grow. That hasn’t stopped Texas governor Greg Abb...

Disqualified Immunity with Rep. Ayanna Pressley

17 Jun 2020

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Trump signed a fairly inconsequential executive order yesterday that is supposed to incentivize police departments to adopt reforms. Across the countr...

Pride And Joy

16 Jun 2020

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Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ+ employees from workplace discrimination in a 6-3 ruling. This is the firs...

Black Trans Lives Matter

15 Jun 2020

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Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by a white officer in Atlanta this weekend, in another horrific instance of police violence. Atlanta’s police ch...

CHAZ Good As It Gets

12 Jun 2020

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Police in Seattle abandoned their East Precinct building and ceded about six blocks of the city to protestors, who have now set up the Capitol Hill Au...

More Police Money, More Police Problems

11 Jun 2020

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More than a third of states are seeing increases in Covid-19 cases in the last week. It’s hard to draw conclusions about what’s behind that trend—...

Georgia In My Line

10 Jun 2020

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Georgia held its primary yesterday, and in a state where officials have been accused of voter suppression, the elections were rife with issues. Pollin...

Extreme Cop Makeover

09 Jun 2020

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Democrats in Congress introduced the Justice In Policing Act yesterday, which includes a ban on chokeholds, a ban on no-knock warrants, and makes it...

MPD Unplugged

08 Jun 2020

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Minneapolis City Council members have said they intend to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a community-based public safet...

Still Marching After All These Years

05 Jun 2020

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Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis published a scathing indictment of his presidency, and he’s been backed up by Republican Senator Lisa ...

No Statues For Bad Men

04 Jun 2020

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has upgraded charges against George Floyd’s killer Derek Chauvin by adding a charge of second-degree felony...

Presidential Insurrection

03 Jun 2020

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Trump’s threat to deploy military to states to help squash unrest would require him to use the Insurrection Act of 1807. We discuss that law’s his...

Curfew Enthusiasm

02 Jun 2020

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Protests against racial violence continued in well over 100 cities, leading local officials to continue to take drastic measures like curfews and call...

Protesting 1, 2, 3

01 Jun 2020

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Protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd continued throughout the weekend. There were demonstrations in over 75 American cities, lea...

Trump Orders You To Log Off

29 May 2020

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President Trump signed an executive order aimed at social media companies yesterday. We explain what's behind it and why legal experts don't think it'...

The Sisterhood Of The Traveling RNC

28 May 2020

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The planned site of the Republican National Convention this August is North Carolina, one of the states where coronavirus case numbers are currently o...

Racism Cont'd

27 May 2020

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George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis this week, in an abusive and excessive show of force. We discuss his murder and the incident...

Dropping The Bolsonaro

26 May 2020

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The US has imposed a ban on flights from Brazil because of a dangerous surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. This comes after Brazilian President Jair B...

Grand Re-Opening, Grand Re-Closing

22 May 2020

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China’s leaders are poised to impose a controversial new national security law in Hong Kong. The law would reportedly ban secession, subversion of s...

We'll CDC What Happens

21 May 2020

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The CDC has quietly posted a report with detailed suggestions about how to reopen. We dig into it and how the states might or might not use it.More th...

Contact Tracing: There's An App For That

20 May 2020

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Contact tracing apps have been adopted in countries around the world to track the spread of COVID-19, but they’re not being used as much in the US. ...

WHO's Fault Is It Anyway?

19 May 2020

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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify this morning about the economic crisis and response. We preview ...

1-800-Grifthub

18 May 2020

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Democrats in Congress are launching an inquiry into Trump’s firing of an inspector general at the State Department. It comes after three other inspe...

How To Get Away With Burr-der

15 May 2020

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Today the House is set to vote on a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package that Senate Republicans say is dead on arrival. They’ll also vote on rule...

Necessity Is The Mother Of Convention

14 May 2020

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Former vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright will testify before a house subcommittee today—he’s the guy who says he was removed from his job because he d...

The Wind Cries Fauci

13 May 2020

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Top U.S. health officials took questions from the Senate Health Committee yesterday on coronavirus. The partially teleconferenced testimonies featured...

The State Of South Dakota Vs. Common Sense

12 May 2020

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The governor of South Dakota threatened to sue two Sioux tribes over road checkpoints they have set up to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to their rese...

The Covid Is Coming From Inside The White House

11 May 2020

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Top US health officials are self-isolating and quarantining after a couple White House employees tested positive for coronavirus. Plus, new data revea...

It's Not Easy Making Vaccine

07 May 2020

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The vaccine race is on, with several companies, governments, and academic labs working on lots of different potential options at once. We dig into th...

Don't Be Like Mike

06 May 2020

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Vice President Mike Pence says the federal coronavirus task force could be disbanded within a month because of “the tremendous progress we’ve mad...

Leaky Projectors

05 May 2020

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A leaked government projection shows the US daily death toll from Covid-19 reaching 3,000 by June, which would almost double the current rate. Both th...

Businesses Are People Too

04 May 2020

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As dozens of states reopen, Senator Mitch McConnell wants liability protections for businesses, so that employers won't face the possibility of lawsui...

Mega-Strike May Day

01 May 2020

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It’s the first of the month, which means rent is due for millions of Americans, workers are going on strike, and more states are reopening. We brin...

The Incredible Shrinking Economy

30 Apr 2020

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New GDP data show the economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate in January, February and March. That’s the worst quarterly decline since the 2008 recessi...

Hamburger Help Us

29 Apr 2020

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Trump signed an executive order aimed at keeping meat-processing plants open by designating them as “critical infrastructure.” The union represent...