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The Klondike Kickback
Chris Berube with the rundown: The White House says you can't report on press briefings; Alaska gets a helpful clause in the healthcare bill; Gwyneth Paltrow is nonsense.
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Snacker Hackers
Chris Berube with the rundown: President Trump is back on the campaign trail; More North Carolina chicanery; A very dumb heist, revealed.
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Girl Scouts Are the Future
Chris Berube with the rundown: Does Donald Trump have tapes of his conversations with James Comey?; We're getting another British, like next week maybe; The Girl Scouts introduce a very modern badge.
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It's So Hot, Planes Can't Fly
Chris Berube with the rundown: American voters reevaluate George W. Bush; It's so hot in Phoenix, planes can't fly; Bob Dylan is history's greatest troll.
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America's Funniest Jones Videos
Chris Berube with the rundown: Is Trump under investigation?; The ratings are not good for Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones interview; Sheriff Clarke, we hardly knew ya.
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Mike Cernovich Takes a Nature Walk
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Catalonia campaigns for independence, New Jersey mulls a ban on releasing balloons, and for stress-free exercise, don’t hike with Mike Cernovich.
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Putin Just Wants to Get Along
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Vladimir Putin says he’s ready to be friends with the U.S. The NSA says last month’s big cyberattack came from North Korea. Reading the FBI file on D&D creator Gary Gygax.
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Buyer Be Scared
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: The investigation of the Flint water crisis has ensnared Michigan’s health chief, and more of The Trump Organization’s property sales have been going to secret buyers.
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Sergey Kislyak Throws a Party
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Did President Trump fire Preet Bharara because his personal lawyer told him to? China is snubbing Trump’s cabinet. And Sergey Kislyak celebrates Russia Day.
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Peter Thiel’s Long Game
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Peter Thiel’s software company Palantir has the ear of the defense secretary, and Comey Week overtook Infrastructure Week, and why that’s good for Republicans.
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Hung Parliament Edition
Chris Berube is joined by June Thomas to break down the surprising outcome of the British election.
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Should SXSW Move?
Chris Berube with the rundown: New Hampshire considers the first Trump-era voter ID law; Should SXSW leave Texas to protest regressive laws?; What do you call man-spreading in Spanish?
2 min
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He'd Rather Be Golfing
Chris Berube with the rundown: three stories where politics and sports intersect.
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The Stats About Terrorism in America
Chris Berube with the rundown: The statistics about terrorism deaths in America; Cuts kill investigations into The Troubles; Terry Gilliam finally completes Don Quixote, we still may never see it.
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Yes, Even Sharknado is Political Now
Chris Berube with the rundown: Deciphering Trump's real views on climate change; A confusing election poll in the UK; Yes, even Sharknado is political now.
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Mugabe Goes On Tour
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: France’s top cybersecurity official says countries face “permanent war” in cyberspace, the U.S. power sector gets a gold sticker for emissions reduction, and the oldest head of state in the world rallies the young’uns.
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Ohio v. Opioids
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Ohio sues opioid makers, French President Emmanuel Macron’s campaign manager might be in trouble, and an astronaut comes back to Earth.
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Smashing the Office Printer
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: The Supreme Court takes a gavel to patent-happy printer companies, and we find a compelling reason not to reform Pennsylvania’s pathetic ethics laws.
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The World According to De Niro
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: The White House gets punched in the nose, the most Irish thing in the news today, and the world according to Robert De Niro.
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Britain Decides
Chris Berube with three things you need to know about the upcoming British election.
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#InsertCampaignHashtagHere
Mike Pesca with the rundown: A shocking number from the CBO report on the AHCA; A Mexican politician tries a new kind of campaign slogan; Spicer gets shut out by the pontiff.
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Econ 101
Chris Berube with the rundown: Two things about the Trump budget; and a weird baseball legend, investigated.
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Mr. Jones Goes to Washington; Mrs. Gingrich Goe...
Chris Berube with the rundown: Donald Trump responds to the terror attack in Manchester in a very Trumpian way; Callista Gingrich heads to the Vatican; InfoWars gets into the White House, just for one day.
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Sheriff Clarke Thinks You're a Sleazebag
Chris Berube with the rundown: David Clarke joins the White House, plagiarized a lot of stuff; Protests in Venezuela hit fifty days; The Fyre will be back, assuming organizers are not in prison.
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Maduro, Accused and Accursed
Mary Wilson with today's three things: Another damning leak from White House senior staff about the president's meeting with Russian officials, Rod Rosenstein says his memo was misused, and someone puts a spell on Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro.
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