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How the Israel-Hamas war has devastated education in Gaza
S2024 E85 - 6m 2s
The World Health Organization says the future of an entire generation in Gaza is at risk, with children dying of the effects of malnutrition and disease. Another casualty is Gaza’s education system — more than 800 schools are estimated to have been bombed or destroyed in five months of war between Israel and Hamas. David Skinner from Save the Children joins William Brangham to discuss.
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Why D.C.’s beloved Stumpy is seeing its final peak bloom
S2024 E85 - 2m 16s
An annual, celebrated event took place this past week in Washington, D.C., and it didn’t have anything to do with politics. It’s known as peak bloom, the day 70 percent of blossoms are open on Washington’s iconic cherry trees around the Tidal Basin. But for 158 of the trees, this year will be their last bloom. John Yang reports.
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How 2024 election could shape the future of abortion rights
S2024 E85 - 6m 34s
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case challenging FDA rules that make it easier to get mifepristone, the medication that accounts for more than half of all U.S. abortions. John Yang speaks with legal historian Mary Ziegler about the role executive branch agencies can play in a post-Roe world and the potential consequences of the 2024 election for reproductive rights.
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Intense fighting in the Congo sparks fear of regional war
S2024 E85 - 6m 12s
Violent conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is worsening the humanitarian crisis there, the World Health Organization warned this past week. As armed rebels close in on Goma, hospitals are overwhelmed and hundreds of thousands civilians have been displaced. Now, there are fears of a wider regional conflict. John Yang speaks with Jason Stearns to learn more about the situation.
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News Wrap: Russians mourn victims of Moscow terror attack
S2024 E85 - 2m 19s
In our news wrap Sunday, Russia held a national day of mourning for victims of the concert hall massacre in suburban Moscow, a barrage of Russian missiles hit targets in Kyiv and farther west as Putin blames Ukraine for the terror attack without evidence, and Nigeria’s military says 137 of nearly 300 schoolchildren kidnapped more than two weeks ago have been released.
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Immigrant workers face harsh conditions on U.S. dairy farms
S2024 E84 - 7m 8s
Advocates of legal immigration say foreign-born workers have long been a key factor in U.S. economic growth. But are they sharing in the benefits of their contributions? For more than a year, ProPublica has been investigating the harsh realities of life for immigrant workers on Midwest dairy farms. John Yang speaks with ProPublica reporter Melissa Sanchez about what she’s found.
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News Wrap: Biden signs $1.2 trillion government funding bill
S2024 E84 - 1m 54s
In our news wrap Saturday, Biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to fund more than half the government through the end of the current budget year, Egypt said about 7,000 aid trucks are being denied entry to Gaza as the UN warns of imminent famine, a Russian spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan to take a crew to the ISS, and author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff died at age 98.
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How a small Wisconsin city is responding to a migrant surge
S2024 E84 - 5m 38s
Complications resulting from an influx of migrants aren’t limited to big cities like New York and Chicago. PBS Wisconsin’s Nathan Denzin went to the small city of Whitewater in southern Wisconsin and reports on the effects there.
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What we know so far about the deadly terror attack in Russia
S2024 E84 - 9m 4s
Russian President Putin has vowed to punish those responsible for the terror attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people. In the capital, people are remembering the dead after one of the worst acts of terror in Russia in decades. Journalist Michael Weiss joins John Yang to discuss the Islamic State branch that claimed responsibility for the attack and Putin’s response.
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Brooks and Capehart on latest round of chaos in the House
S2024 E83 - 10m 4s
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including House Republicans facing yet another fight over who will lead their conference, Donald Trump's trouble finding money to cover bond for his civil fraud penalty and the tensions between the Biden administration and Israel's government.
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News Wrap: Dozens killed in terror attack at Moscow concert
S2024 E83 - 4m 7s
In our news wrap Friday, gunmen killed dozens in a terror attack at a concert in Moscow, a tense meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spotlighted the strains in U.S.-Israeli relations over the war in Gaza and more than million people in Ukraine lost power after a sweeping Russian attack on the electrical grid.
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Transplant of pig kidney into human marks medical milestone
S2024 E83 - 6m 53s
In a historic first, a kidney from a genetically modified pig was successfully transplanted into a human. Researchers hope for more of this kind of transplant because there aren’t enough human organs for the thousands in need. But putting animal tissue into a human is complicated. William Brangham discussed that with Dr. Leonardo Riella of Massachusetts General Hospital.
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