Included in this episode: 1. Interpol Says Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Were Smuggled Across Continents 2. Why a Debate on the Minimum Wage Could Spark a D.C. Meltdown 3. The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Global CO2 Emissions Didn’t Last Very Long 4. Why Democrats Can't Keep Their Promises in the Relief Bill .

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Included in this episode: 1. Twitter Cracks Down on COVID Vaccine Misinformation 2. Criminal Complaint Filed Against Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi Killing 3. Andrew Cuomo Was a ‘Resistance’ Icon. Now There’s ‘Blood in the Water’ 4. In His Return to Politics, Donald Trump Uses Lies and Bullying to Threaten His Party 5. Column: Why White Evangelicals Must Choose Between Reform and Extremism 6. How to Stay Social When You Never See Your Work Friends .

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Included in this episode: 1. How the Texas Winter Storm Disaster Will Shape Joe Biden’s ClimateAgenda 2. ‘If This Task Was Urgent Before, It’s Crucial Now.’ U.N. Says World Has 10 Months to Get Serious on Climate Goals 3. Review: In the Gently Moving Minari, a Korean Family Finds Home in America's Heartland 4. These Are the 3 Credit Cards I’ve Been Using During the Pandemic .

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Included in this episode: 1. FDA: Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Doesn’t Need Ultra-Cold Freezer Storage 2. We’re in the Third Quarter of the Pandemic. Antarctic Researchers, Mars Simulation Scientists and Navy Submarine Officers Have Advice For How to Get Through It 3. How a Belarusian Teacher and Stay-at-Home Mom Came to Lead a National Revolt 4. Tiger Woods Once Beat Rocco Mediate On A Broken Leg. He Says Now: Don’t Count Tiger Out 5. Here’s Why Everyone Closes on Their Mortgage at the End of the Month .

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Included in this episode: 1. My Family Is Still Being Careful About COVID-19. Why Does It Feel Like We’re the Only Ones? 2. Working From Home Is Driving Up Our Energy Costs. Should Employers Foot the Bill? 3. Olympic Champion Caster Semenya Takes Her Case to the European Court of Human Rights 4. The United States vs. Billie Holiday Is a Messy But Passionate Tribute to an American Legend 5. Why Voguing and the Ballroom Scene Matter Now More Than Ever 6. Women Are Leaving The Workforce In Droves. Here’s How to Handle a Career Break .

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Included in this episode: 1. Pfizer-BioNTech Announces They Will Test a Third Dose of Their COVID-19 Vaccine 2. Column: We'll Probably Never Eliminate COVID-19 from the U.S. It's Still Worth Trying 3. Islamist Terrorism Is Not Done With Us, Warns Former al Qaeda Hostage Theo Padnos 4. Dave Ramsey Is Wrong. A $1,400 Stimulus Can Change Your Life .

Pfizer-BioNTech Announces They Will Test a Third Dose of Their COVID-19 Vaccine... and More Stories

Included in this episode: 1. COVID-19 Vaccines Work. Here’s the Real-World Proof 2. We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Alzheimer’s and Dementia 3. Moderna Ships a New COVID-19 Vaccine for Testing Against More Infectious Variant 4. Ghana Receives World’s First Coronavirus Vaccine Delivery from COVAX 5. FAA Grounds Boeing 777 Planes and Orders Thermal Inspections After Engine Blew Apart 6. Punky Brewster Is Just the Latest Proof That Today’s Kids Deserve Better Than ‘80s and ‘90s Reboots .

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Included in this episode: 1. Senators Grilled Law Enforcement Leadership About the Capitol Riot. We Still Don’t Know What Exactly Went Wrong 2. No Charges Against Rochester Police Officers Involved in Daniel Prude’s Death 3. How Are Activists Managing Dissension Within the ‘Defund the Police’ Movement? .

Senators Grilled Law Enforcement Leadership About the Capitol Riot. We Still Don’t Know What Exactly Went Wrong... and More Stories

Included in this episode: 1. ‘I Am Not The President’s Lawyer.’ Merrick Garland Vows Independence As Attorney General 2. Column: How Australia May Have Just Saved Journalism From Big Tech 3. U.S. Death Toll From COVID-19 Passes the 500,000 Mark 4. Here’s Why Economic Experts Are Predicting Higher Mortgages Rates This Year 5. The Best Exercises to Sneak Into Your Workday .

‘I Am Not The President’s Lawyer.’ Merrick Garland Vows Independence As Attorney General... and More Stories

Included in this episode: 1. Some Texans Are Facing Electricity Bills Up to $8,000 After Winter Storm 2. The Ghost of Noël Coward Is Nowhere to Be Found in the Dull Blithe Spirit 3. Fighting With a Family Member Over Politics? Try These 4 Steps 4. Yes, Your Unemployment Benefits Are Taxable. Here’s How Much You’ll Owe .

Some Texans Are Facing Electricity Bills Up to $8,000 After Winter Storm... and More Stories

Included in this episode: 1. The Real Congress is Kinder, Gentler Than What You See on TV 2. To Vaccinate U.S. Veterans, Health Care Workers Must Cross Mountains, Plains and Tundra 3. Angelina Jolie: Millions of Children Are in Danger. We’re Not Doing Enough to Protect Them 4. Are You Underpaid? Here’s How to Ask Someone How Much Money They Make 5. We Need More Female Villains Onscreen—But Not the Kind We Get in I Care a Lot .

The Real Congress is Kinder, Gentler Than What You See on TV... and More Stories

Included in this episode: 1. The Texas Power Grid Failure Is a Climate Change Cautionary Tale 2. Column: Cities Are Key to Fighting Climate Change 3. Albert Woodfox Speaks on Racial Justice in America 4. This Real Estate Mogul Is Investing in Black Homeownership 5. Mail Voting Boosted Turn Out for Voters With Disabilities. Will Lawmakers Let It Continue? .

The Texas Power Grid Failure Is a Climate Change Cautionary Tale... and More Stories

Included in this episode: 1. What Perseverance, NASA’s New Mars Rover, Will Be Doing in its Years on the Red Planet 2. UK Study Will Intentionally Expose People to COVID-19 Virus 3. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz Under Bipartisan Fire for Trip to Cancun as His State Suffered Power Outages and Bitter Cold .

What Perseverance, NASA’s New Mars Rover, Will Be Doing in its Years on the Red Planet... and More Stories

Included in this episode: 1. Why President Biden’s First Major Trips Are to Sell His Relief Plan in Battleground States 2. The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is Our Selma 3. How Many Millions Are Without Power in Texas? It’s Impossible to Know for Sure 4. Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative .

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Included in this episode: 1. Column: Trump’s Acquittal Exposed a Republic in Peril 2. Don’t Blame Wind Turbines for Texas’ Massive Power Outages 3. Donald Trump Shows Nixon’s Pardon Was What America Needed 4. How to Work from Home Without Burning Out .

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