Plus, President Trump threatens to deploy federal agents to Chicago, New York and other cities led by Democrats, and hundreds are camping out in Oklahoma’s unemployment lines.
Jul 21, 2020•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, the president struggles to defend his handling of covid-19, and endangered GOP senators are under pressure as Congress returns from recess to take up a new relief package.
Jul 20, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, Sun Belt hospitals are feeling the strain from virus’ surge, and tens of thousands of mail ballots have been tossed out in this year’s primaries.
Jul 17, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, mask mandates catch on as states and businesses try to bypass a toxic debate, and a fight over nude swimming marks return of pre-coronavirus banalities in Europe.
Jul 16, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, Joe Biden embraces more aggressive steps in climate plan, and big banks prepare for protracted recession, report significant drop in profits
Jul 15, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, workers are pushed to the brink as they continue to wait for delayed unemployment payments, and Trump cites game show host on pandemic while undercutting doctors and questioning their expertise.
Jul 14, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, Anthony Fauci is sidelined by the White House as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic, and President Trump’s drop in polls has confident Democrats sensing ‘a tsunami coming’ in November.
Jul 13, 2020•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, the GOP eyes narrowing second round of $1,200 stimulus payments, and The Nationals have a new way to kick their habit of spitting sunflower seeds: masks.
Jul 10, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, according to body camera transcripts, George Floyd warned police he thought he would die because he couldn’t breathe, and robots can be just what the doctor ordered in time of social distancing
Jul 09, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it is withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. And, in a Pennsylvania nursing home, some veterans recevied hydroxychloroquine even without covid-19.
Jul 08, 2020•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, evictions are likely to skyrocket this summer, and SBA data show small-business loans went to private-equity backed chains, members of Congress.
Jul 07, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, research finds that the coronavirus will undermine trust in government, and historians question Trump’s choice of ‘heroes’ for national garden monument.
Jul 06, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, new coronavirus cases topped 50,000 yesterday for the first time ever, and Pfizer reports some encouraging early vaccine data.
Jul 02, 2020•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anthony Fauci warns that America may soon wind up with 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, and people who got their jobs back after being laid off in March are losing them again.
Jul 01, 2020•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, reopenings grind to a halt as Sunbelt states witness a surge in hospitalizations, and critical deadlines are approaching to extend expiring relief measures.
Jun 30, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, coronavirus infections surpass 2.5 million in the U.S. And Trump allies are pushing the president to shake up his campaign.
Jun 29, 2020•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, President Trump races to open more than two-thirds of the largest swath of U.S. public land to drilling, and protesters in D.C. are now demanding the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
Jun 26, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, Trump is deploying troops and marshals to protect monuments. And Tucson’s police chief offers to resign after releasing unsettling body camera footage.
Jun 25, 2020•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, a federal prosecutor will testify that he faced political pressure to go easy on Roger Stone, and the Senate is teetering on the cusp of failure in the push for police reform.
Jun 24, 2020•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, public health officials are leaving their posts in the face of death threats, and President Trump is increasingly preoccupied with defending his mental capacity.
Jun 23, 2020•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, the president is fuming about his small crowd in Tulsa. And, a Minnesota jail is allegedly giving special treatment to the officer charged with killing George Floyd.
Jun 22, 2020•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, a deal to start the baseball season appears within reach after a secret meeting in Arizona. And the former Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks was charged with murder.
Jun 18, 2020•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, an inexpensive steroid is the first drug shown to reduce coronavirus deaths, and some good news for getting kids back to school this fall.
Jun 17, 2020•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, volunteers put their lives on the line as guinea pigs for a coronavirus vaccine, and cars have rammed into crowds of peaceful protestors 19 times this month.
Jun 16, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, a Republican congressman loses his seat because he officiated a gay wedding, and New York’s governor threatens to reverse reopenings because people aren’t social distancing.
Jun 15, 2020•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, the sign-up page for President Trump’s rallies now includes a coronavirus liability waiver, and the Trump administration is concealing the identities of coronavirus loan recipients, shielding undeserving applicants from public scrutiny.
Jun 12, 2020•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, the Federal Reserve forecasts a slow recovery – with worsening inequality. And the voting debacle in Georgia’s primary this week does not bode well for November.
Jun 11, 2020•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, the World Health Organization clarifies that asymptomatic people can transmit the coronavirus, and, patients who survive covid-19 because of ventilators face an arduous recovery.
Jun 10, 2020•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, fourteen states report new record-high coronavirus infections, and the Trump administration is making it easier for hunters to kill hibernating bear cubs and slaughter wolf pups in national parks.
Jun 09, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus, protesters in Europe are pushing for a reckoning with racism in their own countries. And, President Trump is struggling to come up with a new campaign slogan.
Jun 08, 2020•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast