Mike Pesca with today’s haul: why people aren’t moving for jobs, the unsurprising transcripts of the president’s phone calls for foreign leaders, and a study showing Asian-Americans are more likely to be accepted if they’re overweight.
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Anti-Vaxxers, Unleashed
Mike Pesca with today’s haul: A heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, the State Department’s untapped fund to fight misinformation abroad, and the doggie anti-vaxxers of Brooklyn.
2 min
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Mooch Gets Prankster’d
Mary Wilson has today’s three things: Alabama’s 2014 abortion law is struck down and the “Email Prankster” gets the better of White House aides, including Anthony Scaramucci and the homeland security adviser.
2 min
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Rickrolled By Democracy
Mary Wilson has today’s three things: The architects of the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” could go on trial, our benevolent voting-system hackers, and the Mooch as a law student.
2 min
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Justin Trudeau Can't Be President, You Guys
Chris Berube with the rundown: Canadians are mad at the Trudeau Rolling Stone cover; California is close to legalizing safe injection sites; Larry David makes a very Larry David-ish gaffe.
3 min
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He's Modern Day Presidential
Chris Berube with the rundown: Donald Trump's veterans tribute takes a bad turn; Did the President warn anyone about his transgender military ban?; Rick Perry takes a crank call.
3 min
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The Chickens That Screwed Up Free Trade
Chris Berube with the rundown: Rome's drought is getting pretty bad; Chickens are holding up a potential US-UK free trade deal; Nicolas Maduro makes a power enemy.
2 min
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Out With The Old, In With The New
Chris Berube with the rundown: two things you need to know about Anthony Scaramucci, one thing you don't about outgoing Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
2 min
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The Mustache Will Outlive Us All
Chris Berube with the rundown: Akie Abe maybe pretended not the speak English around Trump; Three hundred jobs will be outsourced at Carrier; Salvador Dali's mustache lives on, miraculously.
2 min
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The Scariest Calendar Ever
Chris Berube with the rundown: Reports say Paul Manafort owed $17-million to Russians in 2015; New airport restrictions for everyone entering the US; Holland devises a clever way to solve cold cases.
2 min
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Fidget Spinners Are Brainwash, Apparently
Chris Berube with the rundown: The DoD is renting an apartment they don't need in Trump Tower; Russian state TV has harsh words for fidget spinners; The Bank of England screwed up their Jane Austen money.
2 min
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Secretly Canadian
Chris Berube with the rundown: Donald Trump issues his NAFTA demands; An Australian senator unearths a shocking(ly mild) fact about her past; A 250-year-old cannonball is still active, somehow.
2 min
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Big Scary Iceberg Edition
Chris Berube with the rundown: How big is that giant iceberg, exactly?; Colorado scares people off the voter rolls; No, macaroni and cheese won't kill you, probably.
2 min
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Kermit’s New Puppet Master
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: Papua New Guinea’s thin-skinned elections chief, a hacker targets one of the State Department’s top Russian specialists, and Kermit gets a new voice.
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Tiny Handshake
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: Gambia inventories Yahya Jammeh’s ill-gotten goods, wildfires shut down tourist sites in Italy and Greece, and the Trump-Macron handshake, part deux.
1 min
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Pity the Orangutans
Why the feud around Qatar is more like a mafia feud, habitat prospects are bad for cheetahs and orangutans, and it looks like 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of greenhouse gas emissions since 1995.
2 min
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You, Too, Can Be a Saint
Mary Wilson with three things: The death of a Russian KGB mastermind, a “straight no comment” from Emin Agalarov, and a new way to become a saint.
2 min
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Mad Dog Takes Time for the Kids
Mary Wilson with three things: A menacing website in Russia, a redistricting push from Obama, and an unusual interview with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
2 min
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Deep Breaths, Don't Panic
Chris Berube with the (terrifying) rundown: A cyberattack hits US nuclear plants; The US state department can't even find a hotel room in Germany; Trump pairs up with an actual super villain (kinda)
2 min
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Let's Drink Waste Water!
Chris Berube with the rundown: The Trump Organization renews a fishy URL; One California company is bottling 'reused' water; A very upsetting sign at a baseball game is just tradition, I swear!
3 min
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That's a Big Rubber Duck
Chris Berube with the rundown: Trump's trip to Europe starts in Poland; 44 states hold out on the voter fraud commission; Canada rented a very, very large rubber duck for some reason
3 min
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The Macron Who Would Be King
Mary Wilson on news you might’ve missed: Sweden’s efforts to reintegrate former ISIS fighters, and French president Emmanuel Macron takes heat for being “pharaonic.”
1 min
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German Cops Know How to Party
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: Taking up arms in Venezuela, melting down arms in Colombia, and getting out of hand in Hamburg.
1 min
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The Monopoly Man
Mike Pesca has your 90 Seconds: Cyberattacks are once again sweeping Europe. A friend of the Trump family gets a promotion at HUD. A Minnesota guy tries to use a Get Out Of Jail Free card.
2 min
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Kansas Cuts Its Losses
Mary Wilson on news you might’ve missed: The anti-tax agenda dies in Kansas, Salvador Dali could be exhumed next month, and the New York Times announces what will replace its public editor.
1 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
3 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
1 min
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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.
1 min
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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.
1 min
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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.
1 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
3 min
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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.
1 min
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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.
1 min
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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.
1 min
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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.
2 min
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Britain Decides
Chris Berube with three things you need to know about the upcoming British election.
2 min
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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.
1 min
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Econ 101
Chris Berube with the rundown: Two things about the Trump budget; and a weird baseball legend, investigated.
2 min
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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.
3 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
1 min
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Central Casting
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: The Mar-a-Lago WiFi security needs some work, Robert Mueller’s bona fides, and a harsh burn about the KitKat bar.
1 min
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Russia, Can We Borrow Your Notes?
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Vladimir Putin offers Congress his own Russian intelligence in lieu of American records, can we print “schmuck” in the paper?, and a neo-Nazi publication branches out.
1 min
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He’s Just Not That Into Zoo
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: How the president’s latest spill is playing in Russia, Judge Merrick Garland probably won’t replace Jim Comey, and a jokewriter’s case against Conan O’Brien will go to trial.
1 min
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The Hack Comes Home to Roost
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Ivory Coast soldiers are revolting over unpaid bonuses and Russians are irked by the global ransomware attack.
1 min
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Trump's Newest Tweetstorm
Mike Pesca with the rundown: President Trump tells Comey he *might* have tapes of their conversations; Another public tragedy in Venezuela; Robert Mugabe's not sleeping, he's just resting his eyes.
1 min
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The Real Constitutional Crisis
Mike Pesca with the rundown: Forget Comey, the census mess is a real crisis; Trump wants to investigate voter fraud; Cellino and Barnes are breaking up, proving that nothing lasts forever and all happiness is fleeting.
2 min
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Comeypalooza
Chris Berube with three facts about the firing of FBI director James Comey.
2 min
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Moon Jae-in, Mr. Payback
Chris Berube with the rundown: Jared Kushner's sister makes a sketchy decision; Moon Jae-in is the new president of South Korea; A horrifying, nightmarish, gross, super-interesting fact about parasites
2 min
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Perilous Rooftop Driving School Edition
Chris Berube with the rundown: A golf journalist drops a huge Trump allegation; Uber is being probed by the DOJ; A very dangerous Chinese driving school meets its fate.
2 min
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Dangerous Minds
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: El Chapo gets no sympathy from a U.S. judge; exam fraud, engineer style; and an Army general declares war on fast food.
1 min
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We’re Here All Week, Try The Bidouillage
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: Dust is choking northern China, Mr. Washington goes to Langley, and French insults pour tout le monde!
1 min
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Hotel (Pending Litigation)
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: The Eagles say the jig is up for Mexico’s Hotel California, a U.S. commander asks to beef up forces in Europe, and hard day in Balch Springs, Texas.
2 min
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“A Good Shutdown”
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: Members of Congress subtweet the president in the negotiated spending plan, President Trump wants the Senate to forsake the legislative filibuster, and Kansas City Catholics shun the Girl Scouts.
1 min
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Game Over, Man
Chris Berube with the rundown: How Donald Trump celebrated 100 days; Sebastian Gorka is out at the White House; Aliens will probably kill us all.
2 min
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Bunghazi
Chris Berube with the rundown: Trump administration staffing update, 100 Days edition; The other little red button in the White House; Another twist in the mysterious death of Simon, the enormous rabbit.
2 min
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Tanks, But No Tanks
Chris Berube with the rundown: Why Marine Le Pen could win, troubling news about Ivanka's clothing brand, and a Shark Tank star ends a very short political career.
2 min
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Blame Canada
Chris Berube with the rundown: Canadian fury over new lumber tariffs; How much will Trump supporters get in child care support?; Yet another United Airlines PR disaster.
2 min
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Mar-a-Lago Awareness Week
Chris Berube with the rundown: Chaos on the German far-right; The State Department promotes Mar-a-Lago; The single funny thing about Alex Jones.
2 min
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Make Mexico Pay For It, Or Not, Whatever
Chris Berube with the rundown: Trump's popularity 100 days in; Who IS going to pay for that wall?; A French May-December romance in the spotlight.
3 min
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Operation Vandelay Industries
Mike Pesca with the rundown: Bird-hunting hostages freed in Iraq; Cameroon has the internet again!; A real-life Seinfeld plot is resolved.
1 min
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We Have a Math Museum?
Mike Pesca has today’s rundown: The “Mother of All Protests” demonstrates on an empty stomach in Venezuela, the Commerce Department eyes steel imports, and the Math Museum takes a look at Star Trek deaths.
1 min
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North Korea’s Mind Games
Mary Wilson has today’s rundown: Commercial satellites pick up images of a North Korea nuclear test site holding volleyball games, Rep. Jason Chaffetz won’t run for re-election, and Victoria Beckham accepts Queen’s honors.
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SEAL Team Sex
Mary Wilson has today’s rundown: It’s election day for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Turkey President Erdogan has harsh words for critical election monitors, and the Navy investigates a SEAL for moonlighting as a porn actor.
2 min
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Trump’s Reading List
Mary Wilson has today’s rundown: Russian state TV turns on Trump, Alex Jones goes to court for custody of his kids, and the President makes a book recommendation.
2 min
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Space is the Place
The Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait, answers our three questions about commercial space travel.
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White House Easter Egg Chaos!
Chris Berube with the rundown: 1) Trump allies have deep foreign ties; 2) More drama in the North Carolina legislature; 3) The Times has a big scoop around the White House Easter Egg Roll
2 min
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Finally, Someone Takes on Big Alpaca
Mike Pesca with the rundown: 1) Melania Trump settles with the Daily Mail; 2) Jeff Flake takes on the alpaca lobby; 3) Bats are not a good source of 'surprise protein.'
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Cruelty-Free Bunga Bunga
Chris Berube with the rundown: 1) What did Russia know about the Syrian chemical attack?; 2) Sebastien Gorka has a plan for Libya; 3) Silvio Berlusconi is the new face of vegetarianism in Italy
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Three Perspectives on Syria
Chris Berube with the rundown: 1) The very muddy U.S. policy towards Syria; 2) How expensive is the President's weekly trip to Mar-a-Lago?; 3) The unusual way Fox is educating employees about harassment.
2 min
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Strike One
Mary Wilson has today’s rundown: Questions abound in the wake of the president’s missile strike in Syria, Judge Neil Gorsuch is confirmed, and a flow chart to guide your use of the phrase, “reach out.”
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Tiffany Trump Gets Her Due
Mike Pesca has today’s rundown: President Trump misquotes Rep. Elijah Cummings, a professor says most U.S. military entanglements aren’t actually due to alliances, and the New York Times throws Tiffany Trump a bone.
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Mahindra Tractor Stands With Bill O’Reilly
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Advertisers run from Bill O’Reilly, Russian hubris caught on tape, and a Scottish woman loses her privacy-breach case against Trump International.
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Mr. El-Sisi Goes to Washington
Chris Berube with two thing you need to know, and one you don't: 1) Trump meets with the President of Egypt; 2) A development in the crash that killed Lech Kaczyński; 3) Harrison Ford really needs to stop being a pilot.
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#YesAllToilets
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Flooding in southern Colombia has claimed the lives of more than 200, things to do at Mar-a-Lago that aren’t golfing, and China’s Toilet Revolution.
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Two Democrats Line Up Behind Gorsuch
Mike Pesca with two things you need to know, one you don't: 1) Two Democratic Senators line up behind Gorsuch; 2) The US no longer wants Assad out of power; 3) A baseball star gets a very unusual contract bonus.
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Trump Wants to Turf the Freedom Caucus
Chris Berube with two things you need to know, one you don't: 1) Trump's plans to turf the Freedom Caucus; 2) SpaceX wants to re-use some rockets; 3) A creative, definitely fraudulent way to sell your screenplay.
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Donald Trump Can't Throw a Baseball
Chris Berube with two things you need to know, one thing you don't: 1) The consequences of Brexit; 2) No, Ryan Zinke doesn't want to actually build the wall IN Mexico; 3) Donald Trump does not want to throw a baseball
2 min
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Yeah, Canada's Pretty Chill
Chris Berube with two things you need to know, and one you don't: 1) Trump's border wall hits a funding snag; 2) Canada has something special planned for 4/20; 3) Tim Tebow doesn't have a prayer of playing major league baseball
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Rebuild Society Like No One is Watching
Chris Berube with two thing you need to know, and one you don't: 1) Trump hands Merkel a NATO bill; 2) Marine Le Pen's party is out of funds in France; 3) A Scottish reality show manages to be worse than American reality shows.
2 min
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Stick Around, He’ll Be Right Back
Mary Wilson with today’s rundown: Byrd play on the Hill, Mubarak is released from prison, and Seth Meyers accuses the president of IP theft.
1 min
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Sir, That’s Not Your Department
Mike Pesca with today’s rundown: A dual U.S.-Israeli citizen has been arrested for allegedly threatening JCCs in the U.S., a former Russian MP was shot dead in Ukraine, & Energy Secretary Rick Perry moonlights as dean of students at Texas A&M.
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Flying With Rex Tillerson
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: 1) The IJR’s story on Rex Tillerson gives the secretary of state the “perhaps” treatment, 2) Mexico warns businesses to stay out of border-wall bids, and 3) One snake on a plane.
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Who was Charles Kirbo?
Mary Wilson with today’s three things: 1) A matter of ethics, 2) Holy, polluted rivers, and 3) Mrs. Spicer gets no comment.
2 min
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Someone to Watch the Alligators
Mary Wilson has today’s three things: 1) President Trump’s eyes and ears, 2) More protesters arrested in Belarus over opposition to the “parasite tax” 3) Need TP? Say cheese.
2 min
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Flesh-Eating Maggot News
Mike Pesca with two things you need to know, one thing you don't: 1) The White House is sticking by it's wiretapping claims; 2) California wants ICE agents to stop identifying themselves as police; 3) Flesh-eating maggot news.
2 min
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A Cure for March Madness
Mike Pesca with two things you need to know, one you don't: 1) What's in the new Trump budget; 2) Where the wiretap accusation came from; 3) An erotic raccoon video goes viral; BONUS: Mike's Final Four picks.
2 min
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They're Spying With Your Sex Toys
Chris Berube with two things you need to know, one thing you don't: 1) Donald Trump tries to roll back Obama's auto emissions standards; 2) An app-enabled vibrator is collecting your information; 3) South Korea's president is a terrible person.
2 min
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John Barron and Wayne Tracker Are Friends
Chris Berube with two things you need to know, one thing you don't: 1) Scotland is trying to leave the UK again; 2) Rex Tillerson's alter ego; 3) Willem Dafoe, noted favorite of children everywhere
2 min
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Disrupting the Podcast Space, Uber Style
Chris Berube with two things you need to know, one thing you don't: 1) The White House has a lot of empty desks; 2) Muhammed Ali Jr is detained again; 3) Uber disrupts the podcast space in a very Uber way
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Tom Brady’s Meal Plan
Mike Pesca has today’s three things: 1) South Korea’s past presidents, 2) Geert Wilders is unlikely to be Holland’s prime minister, and 3) Tom Brady’s care packages.