Factories and facilities not living up to standards Ethiopian prime minister has been formally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo N.P.R. s atr Peralta reports Oxman has promised to toil for peace in his country despite the challenges they face ever since he was announced the winner in October the accident has faced headwinds that home dozens have been killed in ethnic clashes in his rule has been challenged even by close allies in his lecture Abby made it clear that peace is hard but war he says is only glorified by those who have lived it this is the oil for life war a form of it is an destruction Abby was awarded the Peace Prize because of the huge democratic reforms he has made in Ethiopia and because he brought a decades long war with Eritrea to an end be admitted that in the past Ethiopia has been ruthless with its people but he promised that he is committed to protecting human rights and to conducting the 1st free and fair elections in Ethiopia s history in a proper n.p.r. 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You re listening to Barry Public Radio f.m. 89 and I m Margaret Allen. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I m Rachel Martin and I m Steve Inskeep it is arguably a normal day in Congress Tuesday December 10th 2019 normal at least in the time of President Trump in that so much is happening that it s hard to follow but the things happening on this day are momentous in the space of an hour House leaders announced 2 articles of impeachment against the president they also announced they have agreed with the president on terms of a new North American Free Trade Agreement the agreement puts the rename to deal with Mexico and Canada on a path to passing Congress let s begin with impeachment n.p.r. Congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell is at the Capitol Hi there Kelson I think the morning and let s listen together to Jerry Nadler He s the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which is the committee that s producing the 2 articles of impeachment throughout this inquiry he has attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and from the American people. Our president holds the ultimate public trust when he betrays that trust and puts himself before country he endangers the Constitution he endangers our democracy and he endangers our national security what are the ways in which Ned lawyers says the president put himself before the country well actually they just released the Tax Justice just this moment of the 2 articles of impeachment they it is a 9 pages in of publicly available now and they detail abuse of power and obstruction of Congress as 2 separate articles of impeachment now the abuse of power focuses on President Trump s conduct with regard to Ukraine and his attempts to pressure the Ukrainian government to launch investigations into Trump s political rivals and into the deep bunked theory that Ukraine not Russia meddled in the 2016 election now obstruction of Congress is focused on Trump s conduct with regard to the investigation itself and efforts that his administration took to prevent Congress from getting the information they need to investigate his conduct when it comes to Ukraine we heard Mara Liasson during our coverage earlier today say that in many ways the obstruction of justice charge is more serious even though it s a little harder it seems a little more abstract to the average person as he clears obstruction of Congress which is a little bit different and this is really important because it is about the relationship between Congress and the White House and Congress s constitutional duty to perform oversight of the White House Democrats say that if they don t move forward with this article in particular they are essentially ceding their power of oversight for decades to come and makes it so much harder for the president to ever be accountable to the other branches of government I have now got one of the resolutions in front of me I m just going to read a little tax to that has just come out from the House Judiciary Committee so that we have an i.d. . Flavor of this the formality of it it s a legal looking document resolved that Donald j. Trump president of the United States is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate which is what would happen here right the full House would vote on these 2 articles and if they are passed they go on to the Senate yeah just to give people kind of a lay of the land the 1st thing that needs to happen is the House Judiciary Committee needs to vote on these articles and we re expecting that to happen maybe as early as Thursday though if that is not set in stone once that s done it will move to the full house where they will take a vote and if it does if these articles are approved by the house then it will go on to the Senate where technically they re required to start the process of an impeachment. Trial in the Senate immediately though there s a little bit of wiggle room there but at the end of the day we re talking about of a very rapid process going forward yeah now let s go back to that 2nd article the obstruction of Congress article and the importance of that there is of course a 3rd branch of government they can sometimes be asked to referee disputes between the other branches the White House and Congress none of this is abstract it s the heart of the American system it s the way you avoid having a dictator it s a big deal Adam Schiff the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was asked today why not wait for the courts there are court cases being heard now about who should testify and what documents should go over why not wait he said he was facing snuffing but delay and obstruction even in the courts from the administration let s listen it has taken us 8 months to get a lower court ruling that Donegan has no absolute right to defy Congress 8 months for one court decision. If it takes us another 8 months to get a 2nd court or maybe a Supreme Court decision people need to understand that is not the end of the process it comes back to us and we ask questions because he no longer has absolute immunity and then he claims something else that his answers are privileged and we have to go to back to court for another 8 or 16 months the argument why don t you just wait amounts to this. Why don t you just let him cheat in one more election why not let him cheat just one more time Kelsey Snell sometimes Republicans or the members of the president s party either one will defend the rights of Congress even against a president of their own party are there any Republicans inclined to see things as shift does well that that is what the vote that we re expecting in the next week or so will show whether or not Republicans have is not discomfort or you know agree with Democrats that the president s. Willingness to go along with the rules norms and constitutional duties his lack of willingness I should say rises to an impeachable offense there have been Republicans who are uncomfortable with the fact that the president doesn t always go along with the way things are normally done even when it comes to things like approving a cabinet positions and then putting people in acting jobs instead of having them confirm those kinds of things have bothered not just Democrats but Republicans for some time the question is what do they do about it and this this this question about the Ukraine situation is much more intense and is at a much higher level than that so they will have to answer that question when they go to the floor to vote although it does seem unusual I mean President sometimes flout Congress in certain specific ways but they will overall acknowledge the rights of Congress here we have a president who says what you re doing is a legitimate I don t have to follow you with all. Let s see here one Republican voice on this Doug Collins he is the top Republican on one of the committees that has been considering impeachment over the last number of weeks he spoke on Fox News Adam Shift your analysis will go down in history along with the speaker of having the most partisan paper on the most list bags of any we ve seen simply because they have issues with the president these are going to be vital to the president s defense that he keep Republicans united Kelsey that no Republicans defect and make the impeachment more bipartisan you know that s absolutely a big part of what he s going to try to do here in you know it I think it s very important to watch the. The way that Republicans and even many Republicans do side with Democrats how they frame that if they pick out you know just a small portion of it that they can agree on that is going to really tell us a lot about what may come in the Senate trial as well because it talks a lot about where the party is as a whole briefly what s it like to also be at the Capitol on this day when Democrats are saying they ve agreed with the White House on the u.s. Mexico Canada Free Trade Agreement the your as the u.s. M.c.a. Do I have that right there is the u.s. Mexico Canada agreement Yes that s right and you know it s like being a little bit of whiplash earlier today Speaker Pelosi was asked about it and she said that the day is young and I think that that is that that speaks to a creditable with that were in there is still much that needs to get done and Congress is feeling this incredible pressure to get everything done as quickly as possible and as much legislating done as possible before they vote on impeachment Well N.P.R. s gems are rolling joins us next he covers business and trade has been covering this agreement Hi there Joe good morning so what did Democrats get that made it acceptable for them to make a deal with the White House well they got some. More than a year ago President Trump in the leaders of Canada and Mexico stood up and presented this u.s. M.c.a. Which some people call NAFTA 2.00 and it s changed some things about NAFTA. There was always this question about whether it was really going to get through Congress now it appears that it will it s going to be signed today the new text is going to be signed today by the leaders of the country 3 countries and I think what Democrats have done is basically. Change some of the provisions in the tax that President Trump and the others unveiled last year there are stronger monitoring standards for labor and environmental rules are essential and this will allow inspectors to go into Mexican factories for instance to make sure that they re living up to Labor Party. Actions that are that are in the agreement also as removal of patent protection for some kinds of drugs and that was a big issue for Democrats so you know Democrats say they ve tweak this made it a lot better it s a much better and different deal and here s what Nancy Pelosi had to say there are some people who said Why make it look like he has a bit well we thought we we re declaring that the thing American worker and what is in this and bring it but we would never not any one of us is important enough for us to hold up exchange and that is important for America workers because any collateral benefit that made it through to any one of us Jim s Rollie it s politically meaningful what Palosi is saying there because there have been some Democrats since the beginning of the Trump presidency who have said this person is such a danger to the republic we need to oppose him on any everything full stop it and I think Nancy Pelosi is trying to show that even though they re trying Democrats are trying to impeach the president that when there s something comes along that will make life better for Americans they will go along with it they will participate and cooperate it was interesting to me that. You know both sides in this both the Democrats and the trumpet ministration are trying to pretend this is a big victory you know Nancy Pelosi says this was much much better than what was proposed Richard Trumka the head of the a.f.l.-cio said this was a vast improvement over the original NAFTA and the flawed proposal from last year and then you had Vice President Mike Pence today saying Democrats had acquiesced porting the deal and of course President Trump is saying this is a huge victory that this is symbolic in symbolic indication of the moment isn t it Jim nobody can stand up and said we have bipartisan cooperation the only way they can make a compromise is if they both stand up and say we want the other side even even though they are actually cooperating and have found common ground on at least this one big issue Ok so now it goes through Congress most likely Republican. Mostly like this deal Democrats have signed on so it goes to the president yes that s that seems to be the case some Republican opposition but generally it s expected to be approved Ok N.P.R. s Jim drolly Thanks for the update on this morning when Democrats also spoke of articles of impeachment This is n.p.r. 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Comes from this station and from Jan s day and integrated partnerships collaboratively providing legal services for more than a century $43.00 offices 5 continents serving clients as one firm worldwide learn more it Jones Day dot com from Drexel University recognizing 100 years of a cooperative education program that prepares students to address the challenges of a changing world more at Drexel dot edu slash ambition can t wait and from Subaru with their Subaru share the love event now through January 2nd details on the not for profit organizations that it supports are at Subaru dot com slash share love it s what makes Subaru Subaru. It s Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I m Steve Inskeep And I m Rachel Martin attorney general William Barr has turned out to be one of President Trump s most loyal defenders it was out in front again yesterday after a Justice Department inspector general report found that the f.b.i. Had adequate reason back in 2016 to open an investigation into the Trump campaign s ties with Russia in a statement Barr pushed back saying the f.b.i. Launched an investigation on quote the thinnest of suspicions when Barr was nominated a little more than a year ago many speculated he would be sort of moderating force within the administration instead Barr has embraced many of the most divisive aspects of Trump s agenda Marie Brenner writer at large for Vanity Fair wanted to better understand William Barr by looking at his past and she tells me she did that in part by talking with many of his former classmates one thing that struck me was the absolute recall that his classmates had about how so deeply he believed in the power of the Constitution and executive authority from the time he entered Horace Mann and high school now I don t know what you were like at 14 but certainly when I was going into high school in the middle of the Vietnam War I wasn t debating the president s power to be able to declare war without going through Congress right there was that something that was happening in his kitchen table late that was happening at his kitchen table and they were a family the bars of contrarians they were you know absolute you know doctrinaire Goldwater Republicans at this period in this world of a sort of a larger liberal culture that liberal culture was playing out at both Columbia University where William Barr was attending college and at the progressive Dalton School where his father Donald bar served as had master Brenner says 2 key moments at those schools influenced Williams career defining out lack outlook on executive power and the fierceness toward progress of politics. What we re seeing now is an extremely interesting cultural moment that is being re translated during the late 1960 s. And early seventy s Donald Barr began running afoul of many of the parents at the Dalton School because he became progressively more conservative and really double down on a lot of the students who were the straight a students at the Dalton schools desired to be out protesting for the Vietnam War So what you see I believe in William Barr at the Justice Department is a kind of re filtering of the protests that started against his father Bill Barr was in high school in college when the Dalton parents and trustees began an immense pushback against what many of them called the Captain Queeg who was running the Dalton School and so he watches in absorbs his father being criticized quite publicly in the New York Times in New York Magazine in the early 1970 s. As he goes into college for his father s doctrinaire conservative views one of the things that so interested me in learning about his early education was our current attorney general attended Columbia University and he entered in 1968. That is the time that the during his freshman year that the campus erupted into this large protest and quite fascinatingly he was against all d of this and has told people very close to him that he was barred from entering the Columbia University library to pursue his Chinese studies work and because these anti anti-war protests civil rights protests are happening he you know he felt that this was an arche and at the same time his father was writing quite tough really in retrospect pretty shocking editorials and essays in vogue and in McCall Zz saying that these were kind of limousine liberal protesters who would go to these protests by taxi you know at one point going after the growing black power movement this this kind of language and this kind of dinner table conversation you can only imagine having a certain imprinting on a son when William bars father was really fired from the Dalton School I mean he was allowed legally to resign but there s this was for a young man who had just graduated from Columbia this had to be a kind of emblematic moment and you always wonder you know is this score settling one of the teachers I interviewed who taught at the Dalton School through the Donald Barr tenure said when I watched Billy testifying before sent the Senate in May I thought this is his father revisited Bill Lee has a score to settle. You spoke with several of Bill bars friends from from childhood I mean did you talk about today with them and do any of them see the same man heading the Justice Department today that they knew back then the Billy bar they went to school with. Of they admired they found him so decent they found him never be little laying anyone he was a really good guy and what really struck me was their disappointment you know one of them said to me it s an American tragedy you start off in one way and life and you re going along and you veer into another and it becomes very dark and I did want to say that did they say that because they just don t share his political leanings or are they pointing to something that they see changed from say the 1st time he was attorney general to the time now that he s serving under the trumpet ministration But you know they d see a change you know because many of them said to me that when he was 1st appointed under Bush as the attorney general that he was obviously a conservative but again a very decent very you know moderate thinking strict constitutionalist and when Trump appointed him they believed that we would have a surprise you know that he would be operating on that high level when he 1st started under Trump they were again mystified Marie Brenner is a writer at large for Vanity Fair she writes the Attorney General William Barr for the magazine s December issue Maureen thanks for sharing your reporting We appreciate it thank you Rachel. 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News in Washington I m Lakshmi saying standing in front of a towering portrait of George Washington on Capitol Hill Democratic leaders in the House have solemnly announce 2 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Trump is accused of encouraging a foreign power to meddle in the 2020 Alexion by leveraging military aid to get Ukraine to investigate a political rival tribes Republican allies argue the Democrats have rushed to impeachment failing to exhaust other avenues to make their case Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff said the country s democracy and national security are at stake the argument why don t you just wait amounts to this. Why don t you just let him cheat in one more election. Why not let him cheat just one more time. Why not let him have foreign help just one more time that is what that argument amounts to however the Republican leadership accuses the Democrats have tried to up and the votes of those who put Trump in office in 2016 Trump predicts he will be cleared in a trial in the u.s. Senate which is controlled by the Republicans Russia which is accused in the 2016 election other Us political breaches has sent its foreign minister to meet with the president and secretary of state Syria arms and Ukraine are on the agenda from Washington this is n.p.r. News. A high level North Korean officials warning of a possible military confrontation with the u.s. Should both countries remain at a nuclear impasse in Seoul Jason Strother reports said John Young has given the Trump administration until the end of the year to offer concessions North Korea s former nuclear talks envoy says his country has nothing more to lose opinions official media carried comments which appear to be in response to a tweet from President Trump over the weekend Trump wrote that ruler Kim Jong un could lose everything if he resumes hostilities Kim the envoy called the president on a radical and indicated that the threat to u.s. Security is growing North Korea says it wants Washington to come up with a better deal by the end of this month in order to resume a denuclearization talks for n.p.r. 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Military aid to Ukraine while seeking political favors now the war in Ukraine could pause the presidents of Russia and Ukraine met yesterday and agreed to a cease fire the meeting was in Paris which is where we find N.P.R. s Eleanor Beardsley either our Good morning Steve what was this meeting like. Well you know it went on for hours and hours and didn t break up until after midnight so here s this press conference you know after midnight you had this young neophyte politician followed Amir s Alinsky meeting with the strong man who s run Russia for 20 years without a mere Putin and continues to create havoc in Ukraine so everyone is watching body language and faces and Zelinsky and Putin were at the far end of the table separated by their mediators German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president. Solecki spoke 1st right after the host my call and he appeared nervous but what he said seemed heartfelt Here he is you can hear him. She was green she is. So he said he had all of Ukrainians with him in Paris and he felt their support he said he also had truth with him and the desire for justice and peace in his own country he said the meetings were long but they were concrete and important and that the dialogue had been unblocked Selenski also asserted that Ukraine is an independent and free country and its future will be decided by Ukrainians and he asserted that Donbass that s eastern Ukraine and Crimea are part of Ukraine Remember Russia took Crimea 5 years ago and still destabilizing eastern Ukraine Well what exactly did they agree on then given that Russian forces still control a lot of Ukraine right well they agreed on a ceasefire before the end of the year but I might add that there have been 20 cease fires in this war so will it hold but what was really important and is very concrete in measurable is they agreed to exchange all prisoners before New Year s Eve So that will be measurable and also they agreed by next March to withdraw forces from 3 major conflict zones and this Crisis Group is going to meet again in 4 months when you say crisis group that includes a man the president of France the host of this meeting in Paris where you are what is his perspective on all this while France has taken a lead role in trying to to solve the situation has actually spoken recently of a getting a new done. Between the rest the West and Russia you know retiring Russia to Europe he wants a reset and it s actually one of the things that macro and President Trump agree upon also you know what Steve Michael needs a win and he needs a win on the international stage he s not in good shape at home I don t know if you have her but there s huge strikes and protests and Paris and huge protests today against his pension overhaul So I spoke with analyst Chris John McAfee He s editor of L Express magazine and here s what he said about the talks micro it s something very concrete about Ukraine and. There is someone who can help him it s Zelinsky because he s also in a corner because of the tramper fair. So you know he said they need each other and you know what you could see that the while the length he spoke he would look down the table over at my call and Michael would look at him and smile is almost like a smile of encouragement his his guide it was buttressing Zelinsky you know encouraging him to keep going it was very interesting appreciate your observant eye on our thanks so much thank you Steve That s N.P.R. s Eleanor Beardsley in Paris President Trump has long complained that the United States is a loser on the playing field of global trade now his administration is going after the raf the United States is taking action to sideline the World Trade Organization which has been the chief enforcer of global trading rules allies say the president simply wants to reform the organization critics say he is tearing it apart here s N.P.R. s Scott Horsley you might not think the World Trade Organization would have much to say about solar rooftops in Connecticut but it does for years Connecticut like other states has offered rebates to homeowners who invest in solar panels the goal was really to encourage adoption of residential solar projects sell your prizes with Connecticut s Green Bank which runs the program for a while the state offered an extra incentive to homeowners who bought solar Quitman that was made in Connecticut not many did nevertheless India challenge that provision along with similar by local measures in other states and the World Trade Organization ruled in India s favor saying it s illegal for the u.s. To champion domestic products over foreign imports President Trump complains that as an international trade referee the deputy yo is taking advantage of the u.s. We know he s too ready for me because before only the United States is a sucker in fact since the founding the u.s. Has enjoyed a good track record of winning cases there but as of today the appellate body that the sides those cases and rules on trade disputes between countries is losing its power term limits have left 6 out of 7 seats on the appellate body vacant and the Trump administration is by. Hocking the appointment of replacements u.s. Trade representative Robert light hisor says the administration is fed up with an appellate body that drags its feet makes its own rules and fails to deal with trade challenges posed by countries like China we clearly need reform every other country or almost every other country has made the same point previous administrations have raised similar complaints but none has gone so far as to cripple the enforcement body Carly Hills who had lighthouses job in the 1st Bush administration acknowledges the w t o needs modernising to deal with 21st century challenges like digital trade and powerful state subsidies in China it s kind of like having an old house that didn t have a washing machine and a to be upgraded that doesn t mean you re knocked down the house Hills warns that without a functioning appellate body to decide cases countries may be tempted to ratchet up tariffs and make other hostile trade moves I think it s a law of the jungle from its inception in the 1990 s. The w t o is designed to prevent big powerful countries from throwing their weight around Trump However like the freedom to squeeze other countries and drive a hard bargain just as he did in his business career veteran trade lawyer Scotland succumbs says whatever the shortcomings of the deputy o. Trump is wrong to hamstring its enforcement arm the United States as long been a champion of the deputy not only because it wins case but because it s used tremendous value in having a functioning multilateral trading system and a dispute settlement other observers are more saying what about the president s tactics Thomas used to Burke who is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute says with the trade referee sidelined countries will simply have to negotiate their own agreements and perhaps work together to build a new trading framework I think in the long run the interests not only of the United States and Europe but also like minded countries like Japan Australia Korea will lead us to a point where we ll find a way in the meantime the press. Don t We ll have more leeway to pursue trade policies he calls America 1st Horsley n.p.r. News Washington. You re listening to n.p.r. 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And Catherine team MacArthur Foundation recognizing exceptionally creative individuals this year s MacArthur Fellows and more information are at mac found dot org And from the George Lucas Educational Foundation creator of Edutopia and online resources dedicated to improving the learning experience for America s students with information and strategies about what works in case through 12 education learn more it Edutopia dot org. It s Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I m Steve Inskeep And I m Rachel Martin we turn to art to try and process the world around us the joys and the tragedies tonight the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will premiere a new dance piece in New York it is called owed the choreographer says the work is an ode to gun violence in America and it was inspired by the deaths of Trayvon Martin and others Jeff Lunden reports there are no gunshots in oh do but it begins with one dancer long motionless on the floor as a piano place start detached chords. The dancer gets up and is eventually joined by 5 other dancers in flowing circular motions they dance together is an ensemble but then one dancer falls and crumples to the floor he s picked up by another dancer but then 2 of them full of inspiration for the piece it was a couple years ago when there was this long stand of what appeared to be racially biased shootings by the police Jim or Robert is the 1st resident choreographer for the elite company and created this stance and that really disturbs me and I start to think about what does it mean you know what does it mean to me what does it say about our world was that say about our community to a solo jazz piano score by the late Don Poland called Sweet sweet Malcolm Part One memories and gunshots you know piano and bodies the beautiful the celestial sublime but it also has like this process of ness about it that I really like. The piece has 3 distinct sections one being a life the middle section being despair and the end section being an afterlife or some type of resolution when I would premieres tonight 6 men will perform it but in a couple of weeks the same dance will be performed by an all female cast gray divorce Stokes is the solo. I had questions for the choreographer about the casting and he told us what it was about about victims and families and survivors of that violence in America we kind of understood the 2 dynamics of course where mothers were sisters were on their daughters and also sometimes victims but it is a predominantly male centric issue dancer Jiro a bomb Bozeman does the same steps with the all male cast he says some of the movement particularly during the per customer middle section is angular an intense and some is in slow motion but it s all very personal these things impact me as a black male and I dance and living in America so having small imagery of bodies laying down slowly I think of it as playing bodies to rest and kind of giving them back closer for them to ascend. As he s worked on more Roberts s not only coached the dancers on the steps but the meaning behind them paying homage to the lives lost in those survivors who carry on I think has power has the power to bring things to lie you know and have people see the world in ways that they may not have seen and then says it without words and I think that that is one of the most beautiful things about this art form and. We don t use or words but everybody knows exactly what the feeling is and audiences across America will be able to feel the power of this winter as the Alvin Ailey Company takes it on tour for n.p.r. News I m Jeff Lunden in New York. This is n.p.r. News. And Robin Young a new chapter in the impeachment inquiry unfolds this week as Democrats begin drafting articles of impeachment of historian Julian Zelizer How does this inquiry compared to others in u.s. History next time here and now. Here and now starts this morning at 11 on Valley Public Radio. Time now is 10 minutes report 9 o clock again a California Report is coming up next local funding for f m 89 provided by central distributing a participating retailer in the burn cleaner program details at Central distributing dot com Paul seach an accountancy corporation reminding listeners of a power and importance of tax planning online a peach and c.p.a. Dot com support for f.m. $89.00 also comes from solar negotiators a veteran owned company providing full service solar solutions with panel cleaning inspection and monitoring included with your solar installation estimates and information are available by calling 84 for own solar or by visiting Scholer negotiators dot com. Sim daily aside to imitate the majestic call of swans in his 5th symphony after seeing 16 of them take flight on a spring day next time with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra name the year he will conduct this remarkable work along with music Piper coffee and Glazunov next time with the c.s.o. I m Lisa Simeone. 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Yes Pacific Gas and Electric has released new details about its settlement with the victims of fires caused by the utility the terms include letting the company avoid an upcoming civil trial to determine liability for the 2017 tub s fire that killed $22.00 people as my California Report co-host Lily Jamali reports all odds are now on Governor Gavin Newsome any agreement announced Friday wildfire survivors would get 13 and a half $1000000000.00 more than half of it in stock that means wildfire survivors could end up with a sizable stake once the utility emerges from bankruptcy but it s not a done deal yet you see Hastings bankruptcy law professor Jared Elias says it still needs approval by Governor Gavin Newsome it seems that the governor really has until next Tuesday to decide if he wants to support the plan if he doesn t support the plan in his soul judgment than the settlements that was announced goes away Newsome has been one of p. Genies loudest critics since taking office for the California report I m merely Jamali yesterday the u.s. Centers for Disease Control issued another e-coli warning to consumers and retailers the message stay away from packages of chop salads produced by the Salinas based company Fresh Express 8 people in 3 states fell ill after eating the salads the c.d.c. Doesn t know yet at the new outbreak is related to an ongoing eco lie warning focused on romaine lettuce grown in the sleen this area when you call the 800 number for Fresh Express this is what you hear precious salad products sold in the United States and Canada do not contain Romaine from some lima they can pay Romaine from other growing regions that regulators agree are not implicated in the outbreak some strains of e. Coli bacteria can cause severe stomach cramps and vomiting and even death and then more news about microorganisms some interesting research out of us. Science Conference in San Francisco this week we know that wildfires smoking carry ash and pollution or for hundreds of miles but fire scientists say there are also living things in all that smoke k.q.e.d. Science reporter Danielle Benton explains fire ecologist leader was thinking about how bacteria travel in the atmosphere when she went on a prescribed burn with her students and I just started thinking about the smoke in a new way and just wondering if there might be anything living in it of the University of Idaho presented her research at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco it turns out there is an astounding amount and diversity of bacterial cells and fungal spores lofted into wildfire smoke during a fire the more severe the burn the more cells transported this is a new area of research but cozy are things these microbes may impact human health there are numerous allergens that we ve found in the smoke and so it may be that some people who are sensitive to smoke have that sensitivity not only because of the particulate matter in the smoke but also because there are some biological organisms in it she believes these microbes may also be seeding snowflakes and affecting precipitation for the California report I m Danielle Venton support for the California report comes from the California Earthquake authority a not for profit offering earthquake insurance to help Californians protect their financial futures for more information go to earthquake authority dot com water hints his water infused with fruit essences including watermelon in Black Berry no sugar no sweeteners no calories available in grocery stores hint mouth watering water and Eric and Wendy Schmidt who is fun for Strategic and evasion supports transformative ideas that benefit humanity while protecting the natural world recognizing through science the interdependence of all living systems new numbers released yesterday by u.s. Customs. Border Protection show the number of people caught crossing the southwest border illegally last month fell by a 3rd compared to a year earlier that s a drop from over 60000 people to about 40000 in the San Diego sector the c.b.p. Report said 40 percent decline in the number of apprehended families in Washington c.b.p. Acting commissioner Mark Morgan credited a host of trump a ministration get tough immigration policies for the fall that area of catch and release is done you come into this country with a child is no longer going to be a passport in the United States that is done thousands of migrants though continue to travel north only to find themselves living in squalid conditions while waiting on the Mexican side of the border and another immigration story a day area woman with a life threatening condition who face deportation has been allowed to remain in the u.s. The reversal comes after more than 400 sick immigrants were told to leave the country by the the job reports many said boy still has a rare genetic condition and the medicine she needs to survive is available here but not in her native Guatemala back in August the u.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services and now it was no longer reviewing requests for temporary humanitarian relief known as medical deferred action but last week the government finally allowed bless you and her immediate family to stay you know it will have you will really she says through her deal she s learned not to be afraid to speak up and you know that boy. U.S.D.A. s for some consideration of the 1st action in September after public outcry and a hearing called for by Bay Area Congressman Mark to Sonya in which boy said testified for the cow for a new report on Friday that. Speaking of refugees seeking shelter on the to be seen at a Southern California church featuring the baby Jesus in a cage is stirring. Reversi sees Eric has the story outside of Claremont United Methodist Church there are 3 large teaches instead of a manger baby Jesus isn t one king swaddled in a foil blanket the Virgin Mary is in another cage with her arms outstretched toward her child Joseph is in the 3rd cage Reverend Karen Clarke wristing says the scene is meant to represent migrant families separated at the border we see the Holy Family standing in for nameless families and we hope it inspires people to think about compassion the church has a long tradition of using its nativities seen as social commentary photos of this year s scene when viral causing people like Steve Hampton to come on Monday morning to see it he was not a fan I believe people have a right to say and do what they want to do but I think this is inappropriate but others said they came to see them 870 because they were impressed by the powerful message from the California report a merry go and going Claremont. 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Belly public radio isn t just a number on a dial it s the news you rely on the moment you need it it s the music you seek out to decompress from the day it s streaming it s on demand it s everywhere you are Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Lakshmi saying a historic moment today on Capitol Hill u.s. House Democrats have unveiled the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump abuse of power and obstruction of Congress we have more from N.P.R. s Claudio he ses the House Judiciary Committee could approve the articles of impeachment later this week that would be followed by a historic floor vote on impeachment as early as next week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined the chairs of committees leading the impeachment inquiry to make the announcement on this solemn day and I recall that the 1st order of business for members of Congress. This is the solemn asked to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States the plans come on the heels of a daylong hearing laying down the groundwork to draw up articles of impeachment Clottey Selous n.p.r. News the Capitol the White House and Trump s allies in Congress are denouncing the process as a partisan sham N.P.R. s Amy Held has the latest reaction White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said President Trump expects to be fully exonerated of the false impeachment charges in a Senate trial Grisham and House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy said House Democrats are just trying to overturn the votes of the Americans who elected Trump but in announcing the impeachment charges Democrat Adam Schiff said Congress could not wait to act because doing so would allow Trump to quote cheat in the next election N.P.R. s Amy Held reporting or roughly one hour after announcing articles of impeachment against President Trump House Democrats have announced an agreement with him on trade Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the chamber will move forward on a new pact among the u.s. Mexico and Canada that she says is better than NAFTA which President troubling for the loss of American jobs it has the backing of the a.f.l. C.i.a.o. The Democrats say enforcement is central in the new to.
And dark after the Bloss to about 50 people were all known near the island at the time $23.00 were rescued but 5 of those have died the police say foreign tourists are among the dead the restaurant accounted for emergency teams have not yet been able to search the island because it s considered to be too unstable the B.B.C. s Phil Mercer the World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from global sports for 4 years and this is over its widespread doping program Russia is banned from the Olympics from soccer s World Cups and any other sporting events but Russian athletes can still apply to compete if they re able to prove they aren t taking banned substances you re listening to n.p.r. . Israel is thanking a real estate mogul in Switzerland who is donating Nazi artifacts that he purchased the Lebanese born business been says he bought the items to keep them out of the hands of hate groups Naomi s oval office more Adela told the Associated Press that he paid some 600000 euros or about 660000 dollars and I mean it auction for the items which included Adolf Hitler s top hat to Teela said that he initially planned to destroy the items but then decided to donate them they will be given to Yad Vashem Israel s Holocaust Remembrance center and appearance in Jerusalem Sunday said I believe that the Jewish people are the only ones that have the right to decide what to do with the items Israeli president Ruben Rivlin told us that he had shown the world how to fight fascism with his purchase and donation of the memorabilia for n.p.r. News I m in Tel Aviv the Kennedy Center in Washington d.c. 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News I m Steve Inskeep And I m Rachel Martin and this morning I want to tell you about some time I spent with Joe Biden recently we met up with him in Elkader Iowa on Friday this is a little town about an hour and a half outside of Cedar Rapids and a couple 100 people had gathered into this community center to see the former vice president his tour bus is an hour late but no one inside seems to mind what kind of people show up for Joe Biden at this point of the campaign so mostly big fans I do have to say when I was just doing a rough count of this particular group probably a couple 100 folks as I mentioned less than 15 or so were under the age of 50 I got a whole lot of oh we loved you know there was this real sense of familiarity about him I heard more than once he s been around a long time and in this crowd Steve that is not a negative thing people appreciate that experience a lot of them were wearing these no malarkey stickers which is what Biden has named his bus tour which we have to say is not exactly a name that makes you think of the future but it is very Joe Biden. You see great to see so this is the bus the bus it s the marquee So we were with him on the bus this is the 3rd time the vice president has campaigned for president in Iowa he s currently polling 4th in that state behind Bernie Sanders was with mourn and Judge Biden is hoping that a recent endorsement from a former presidential candidate who did well in Iowa might help him and we are not talking about Barack Obama. Let me ask you you recently got an endorsement from your friend Senator John Kerry former Secretary of State John Kerry. There are some within your party in particular younger voters who look to. The former secretary of state and it s a warning for them for 2020 because they think about 2004 because while John Kerry came from behind to win Iowa. He. He still lost the presidential race and he was he was the stabilizing force he was the guy with the name recognition he was going to right the ship after George w. Bush who was at the time fairly unpopular. That s the liberal rap on you right now that a moderate can t beat. Look at all the point show me where the Democratic Party doesn t want to know you don t even like polls Oh I say can t trust the polls that we can t but we just just travel with me travel with me look what s happening look what s modern about my want to make sure everybody has health care I just have a different view than other people do and if you notice the vast majority of people agree with my position on health care degree with my position on education they agree with that and so the idea that there s something that I am moderate one of the things that I wish I had that label when I was running the all the times from the Senate I was a moderate because I was I was always rated as one of those liberal senators the United States Senate. But you re not nearly as progressive on on health care as other candidates because I guess what you re going to find $33.00 trillion dollars in 10 years so I m not racetrack you are beginning to be a little more honest and. You re looking at now and saying Ok those are for Medicare for all you going to have to raise taxes on middle class you let everybody not answer that question for the longest time. So Steve I should take a moment and just describe the scene here we re both situated on this black leather bench on the bus as it is driving on the highway it s a really small space we re probably only a few inches apart from one another and when I bring up any criticism of the campaign Biden bristles and lose it in to make his point he is especially displeased with a question about his challenge with younger voters a recent Harvard poll shows him with only 18 percent of the vote between people but . The ages of 18 and 29 why do you think there s an enthusiasm gap there is an enthusiasm gap whatever you re talking about I m talking about a brilliant guy he knew what he wanted to do he knew how to get it done you brought up the ticket so I want to ask each of. And I m running mate and so I want to ask you about that because Senator Senator. Dole longer in the race and that leaves the debate stage for the next debate in the Democratic primary looking very white although all the people in the states will be white candidates and that is just not as you know that s not representative of the party if you are the nominee can you commit to selecting person of color to be on the ticket or have neither little tiny bit of a problem picking a person of color. Or a woman can you commit to that no I can t commit to that because I know about Vice President you have to have someone who works for you who believes exactly like you do on the strategic notion that you support the reason why the historians are. Having their closest relations really body is we trusted each other completely he was able to give me entire chunks of responsibility I didn t have to report because he knew I knew what he was thinking and you can we know right now that we cannot be but there s plenty of people of color there s plenty of women who are not who would have rather you got senators on I can think of 4 women senators off the bat that would be great vice president so I can think of some I could think of several women who are in fact the last races recently who are completely capable of space and look I m in a situation where look at my staff I have the most diverse staff from anybody running I ve always done this is what the country has to look like the administration should look like the American public. What s happening right now President Obama is in the process of being impeached. Pending. Suggested that they might call you or your son Hunter if you are subpoenaed which you comply Oh I m not going to let you take the ball here and everybody knows that this is about this is a trumped gambit you play whenever he s in trouble he tries to find someone else to divert attention to Mr I m. Sure you re suggesting that they would subpoena President Trump these issues will be in the Senate trial but the question is would you comply no. I will not feel what everybody is looking for here and that is to take the eye off the ball everybody knows the issue here is not what I did because no one has proof one. Scintilla of evidence that it is anything other than do my job for America as well as anybody could have done it making sure that we in fact got rid of a corrupt prosecutor who everybody including our allies. Including our allies as well as. The i.m.f. And everyone else has to go I did my job incredibly well even the people and his newest ration of testified to my character testified to my honesty saying While I didn t you know it didn t look good for Hunter Biden to be on the board even if he did nothing wrong the optics weren t good there were former White House seats of yours who tried to warn you about the potential conflicts of interest nobody warned me about it for a potential conflict of interest nobody wanted. The same time George joined the State Department official testified because he raised it you know here is he did not he used. To never heard that once. He has no band but my son and I guess that s why he said because my son was honest. That not the reason why they should have told and the fact of the matter is my son testified to did an interview saying if he looking back on it made a mistake he made a mistake over he did nothing wrong the appearance look bad and he gave folks like Rudy Giuliani any excuse to come up with a trumpery and kind of defense why they were piling to the Constitution his his words speak for them so. I know that you sat down with your family before you decided to run for president this time because I talked with your wife about it and you had a big conversation about the emotional toll that this takes every single time but especially this time this is your 3rd time running for president why do you want this. Number one. I m not sure I d be running to if. I think the country is at this point the vice president goes into this very long answer recounting how his grandchildren insist. Good that he ran this time then he goes back in time and lays into President Trump for calling Mexicans rapists and defending white supremacy after Charlottesville and then Joe Biden repeats a line he says a whole lot on the campaign trail that we are in a battle for the soul of this country they re looking for somebody who can actually bring the world back together and get us off this precipice looking for someone who can actually get things passed what good does it do if we cannot reach a consensus on issues relating to health care education climate change dealing with . Assault weapons I think. You mentioned earlier that his experience can be seen as a liability Rachel but you hear him there playing on it as an asset right and you know I talked to several people at that town hall I went to who said listen we just want to be Donald Trump right but that s not the entire Democratic voting bloc I mean to win this very crowded primary Biden has to build a coalition of voters not just those who want to go back to life before Donald Trump but also those who want a vision for the future and they haven t decided if Joe Biden is the guy who has that Ok thanks Rachel really fascinating it s a great video as well which you can watch this interview with Joe Biden npr dot org . This is n.p.r. News. Starting December 9th. Sometime in the last 1000000 years tabby star may have swallowed a planet one of the planets moons survived the encounter though entering its own orbit around the star but the stars heat is causing the moon to evaporate that s leaving a trail of dust around the star as seen from Earth clumps of the dust pass in front of the star periodic like causing it to fade that s the scenario presented by a team of astronomers earlier this year the team was trying to explain the star s unusual flickering at times its light can drop by anywhere from about one percent to more than 20 percent but there s no pattern to the drops that means they can t be caused by the passage of a planet in front of the Star such passages would follow a regular pattern astronomers have proposed several mechanisms to explain the flickering They range from swarms of comets to structures built by an alien civilization the latest idea doesn t settle the matter but several other discoveries may want to stronger for example found a score of stars that fade and brighten erratically just as tabby star does the stars are of 2 main types suggesting there s a common cause for their flickering studies of the entire group could help astronomers find that cause. Another study found a star whose light faded by 80 percent for about a day that star may have been eclipsed by a planet with giant rings just one of the many possible ways to make a star flicker you can find more astronomy news in started magazine subscription information at start a dot org for the University of Texas MacDonald observatory I m Billy Henry. Support for n.p.r. 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News I m Rachel Martin and I m Steve Inskeep How does intermittent fasting affect your health by intermittent fasting we mean people who fast part of the time some skip one meal a day some don t eat it all for several days per week and P.R. s Allison Aubrey reports on a study that tracked what happens when people go hungry for 14 hours per day there are lots of trendy ways to fast some people skip multiple meals some fast a few days a week but Pam Taub a cardiologist at u.c. San Diego says there hasn t been a lot of evidence on which strategies are effective there s a lot of bogus claims out there people telling extreme versions such as to day fasts which can be dangerous Talban her collaborators decided to test a simple and much more moderate approach they asked people to restrict to their eating to a 10 hour window each day we didn t ask them to change what they ate we didn t ask them to change the number of calories that they consumed the only instruction was to stick to the 10 hours so if they ate breakfast at 8 am their last bite of food for the day would need to be eaten by 6 o clock pm making for a pretty early dinner the participants followed this diet for 3 months and tab says she really didn t expect the results she found we saw a 3 percent reduction in their weight and a 4 percent reduction in the abdominal visceral fat so it is surprising to get these types of results especially since all the participants really did was to stop eating a few extra hours each day it turns out that by shutting off eating early the participants all of whom were overweight and at risk of diabetes ate about 8 percent fewer calories but this alone Todd says is unlikely to explain the weight loss she thinks there may be other factors at play so when you go into a fasting state typically over 10 hours of. Fasting you start to deplete the glucose stores in your body and you start to use fat as your energy source in other words rather than fueling your body on stored sugars you begin to fuel your body was stored fat This study was small Talban her collaborators have a larger and i.h. Funded study underway for now the new findings offer some preliminary evidence that a 14 hour fast can be beneficial when you re constantly giving the body calories you re constantly making your cells work says think of a few extra hours of fasting as a way of giving your metabolic organs some rest Allison Aubrey n.p.r. News. If you are one of the millions of Americans who owns a rescue dog you may not know what breed your pet is since most mutts are combination Well there is a way to find out more about your dog s ancestry with a d.n.a. Testing kit although some vets say don t take the results too seriously here s N.P.R. s Patti Niemann we re this week let s get to squeaky toy Marine recorders was told her dog Anya was a German shepherd mix and she definitely looks like a German Shepherd only she is lighter in color and much smaller whereas my girl can t give me a shake but when cordless takes Anya out for walks she sometimes hears comments that are concerning this one little boy that even said Mommy look at that lady s walk in a coyote because she is about the size of a coyote she has the same coloring other people said oh she looks like a wolf or she looks like a fox so Courtis decided to find out she went online ordered a d.n.a. Kit swapped on his mouth for saliva put it in a tube mailed it off and one week later what came back was that 88 percent of her is German Shepherd So that tells you that one parent was probably a purebred and the other parent was a mix and they identified it as the hound family so it was like Greyhound blood hound with it definitely not a Fox wolf or coyote it doesn t really make a difference what breed your dog is Dr Angela Hughes of that marriage and that assists with Mars pet care which makes a dog d.n.a. Test says knowing the breed helps you understand your dog better what makes them tick why do they look the way they do why do they act the way they do it helps use with her own dog who turned out to be part Russell terrier and part all stray and cattle dog understanding that that s just how she is hard wired that she needs a lot of exercise and she needs you know certain things that terriers need like you know a quiet dark place to Dens so that she can kind of get away and not feel like she has to be on patrol all the time recognize that she s going to go ballistic at the sight of any squirrel. Those sorts of things and that she s not just trying to irritate me but that s how how she works but these testing kits are also being used to check for potential health problems and vet Mary bioethicists Lisa Moses says this is where the problems come in she s with Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics I want pet owners and that are near Ian s to understand that they should not be using direct to consumer dog d.n.a. Testing to make medical decisions about individual animals Moses says the tests are accurate in part because the f.d.a. Doesn t regulate them and just because a d.n.a. Test suggests a vulnerability to a disease she says it doesn t mean the dog will actually get it it s quite possible that you would end up doing a lot of unnecessary testing to vote for signs of disease if you have a dog who seemed perfectly healthy and not only could that be costly but it could also be invasive and potentially even harmful to your dog especially Moses says if people make treatment decisions based on misleading d.n.a. Results what I see that could possibly happen that would be really bad as people choosing to do treatments and things that would end up being around diagnosis if you re concerned about a health problem Dr John how President of the American Veterinary Medical Association says Your best bet is to talk with your vet because veterinarians are really at using all of our education experience or sensors in our knowledge truly diagnose and treat the patients that we have as well as incorporating any external information you know from our clients or from literature or other veterinarians but House says if you just want to find out more about your dog Zan cess tree a d.n.a. Test could be a fun thing to do just understand that it may not be accurate hadn t even n.p.r. News. And this is n.p.r. News before Facebook and Whatsapp there were Yahoo groups online mailing lists for neighborhood clubs who will soon delete the archive of every group and internet historians are angry there are so many bad will be a long time I don t think that any one story matters but it s the bulk of it all that story and the latest in the impeachment inquiry this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Find all things considered each weekday afternoon from 4 to 7 on the ballet public radio support for f.m. 89 comes from Realty concepts where 200 realtors serving our community with offices in Fresno Clopas cursed information on buying shelling a relocation services is available by contacting realty concepts at 4901500 or realty comes headstock com realty comes hips Riddler states the right boy. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Dave Mattingly on Capitol Hill this morning the House Judiciary Committee holds its 2nd impeachment hearing N.P.R. s Claudio says it will lay the groundwork for articles of impeachment against President Trump for his dealings with Ukraine the Judiciary Committee will lay out its framework for potential impeachment of President Trump followed by evidence presented by the House Intelligence Committee the articles of impeachment could be drawn out later this week followed by a floor vote next week he did Sherry chairman Jerry Nadler said on c.n.n. Sunday that if this was a traditional court trial the president would be convicted quickly I think the case we have presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in about 3 minutes flat Republicans on the Judiciary and Intelligence panels are hoping to knock down that narrative with their presentations today cloudy sun is n.p.r. News Washington also today the Justice Department s inspector general Michael Horowitz releases his findings about the origins of the F.B.I. s investigation into President Trump and Russia it s separate from the investigation being led by u.s. Attorney John Durham the f.b.i. Says last week s deadly shooting at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida is being investigated as an act of terrorism the gunman was a 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force who was receiving flight training in the u.s. He killed 3 sailors before being shot to death by a sheriff s deputy this is n.p.r. News from Washington. A top North Korean official is refuting president Trump s assertion on Twitter that p.r. Young will not become hostile to the u.s. And P.R. s Anthony Kuhn is in Seoul we have nothing to lose shot back Kim Yong Charl a former negotiator inspire master in a statement carried by state media Kim called Trump a heedless and erratic old man and warned that North Korea might have to redeploy the epithet dotard to describe him the dueling comments came 2 days after North Korea revived testing at a satellite launch site which analysts fear could be a prelude to renewed long range missile testing also over the weekend North Korea s ambassador to the u.n. Said that denuclearization is off the negotiating table with the u.s. And lengthy talks with Washington are no longer needed Anthony Kuhn n.p.r. News Seoul the World Anti-Doping Agency is banning Russia from international sports competitions for 4 years they include the next Summer and Winter Olympic Games and P.R. s Lucianne Kim has more from Moscow. A Russian lawmaker and head of the National Soccer Association told state t.v. The decision was a blow to clean athletes as well as the Russian sports fans he said Russia should appeal was decision but Leben have also said Russian officials were partially to blame for not removing outstanding issues with the country s anti doping program Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington. And this is Morning Edition on Valley Public Radio I m now it s $533.00 local funding for f m $89.00 provided by policy Chen accountancy Corp reminded listeners of the power and importance of tax filing online at Peach and c.p.a. Dot com Maricopa orchards reminding listeners the California agriculture contributes to the world food supply support for f.m. 89 also come from Kern Medical whose role has been to serve heal and educate the community for over 150 years offering the only level 2 trauma center in Kern County 12 clinical locations throughout Bakersfield with 45 physicians specialties and Train Job or 200 residents fellows and medical students each year Kern Medical dot com. 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Sports correspondent Tom Goldman with us to talk about this decision Hi Tom good morning what more can you tell us about how the Anti-Doping Agency came to this decision well I will tell you that 12 members of the World Anti-Doping Agency or water were going to say water from now on the others a mouthful 12 members of the water executive committee unanimously agreed to these sanctions that the water president Craig Reedie described as a robust response to the latest Russian infractions and if the sanctions stand up to appeal Russia will be banned for 4 years from competing in hosting competing in and hosting prominent global sporting competitions including a lympics World Cup World Championships Paralympics Youth Olympics Games now Craig Reedie said the one executive committee has responded in the strongest possible terms and this is in fact the toughest punishment handed down in the stoping scandal which has been rolling along for about 5 years so what does this mean for Russian athletes who have come here I just have to imagine for many of them this is a lifelong dream to compete in these next upcoming Olympics. Well if they have any connection to doping this means they re out but you know this also means that you know when we say that Russia s being banned not exactly the case because Russian athletes that have no role in the scandal who are deemed clean will be able to compete under these sanctions that were approved today and this is what s happened in the past 2 Olympics remember there was a contingent like this at the Rio de Janeiro s Summer Games in 2016 and at last year s Winter Olympics in South Korea in Pyongyang Chong $168.00 Russians competed and they were supposed to be neutral although it said on the front of their uniforms Olympic athletes from Russia Oh I didn t say Russia you know they re not getting out of the Russian flag right not so neutral right so the Russian flag and anthem were banned and if you remember after the man one of the Russian men won the a lymphatic hockey competition they and their Russian fans in the stands drowned out the Olympic anthem with the band a Russian anthem it was a here s what we think of your band. And Rachel I should add that critics say that this example fires Russian attitude that the country has never admitted the widespread doping system and that the only way to achieve real culture change when it comes to doping to deter Russia is to have a complete ban on Russian athletes including the innocent one that s that s a tough one Wada and the International Olympic Committee won t go for that unwanted did not today right so what does happen next you mention an appeal Oh yeah yeah Russia has 21 days to appeal this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport It s expected that will happen as I mentioned officials in Russia continue today to deny wrongdoing and you know so it s expected they will appeal and they may win all right n.p.r. Sports correspondent Tom Goldman on this recent decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban a Russia from all global sports for the next 4 years Tom thanks we appreciate it you bet. Today a House committee takes another step toward impeaching the president of the United States the House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing today and that is one move toward a result the chairman Gerry NAVL of described an n.b.c. Will bring articles of impeachment presumably for the committee at some point later in the week N.P.R. s congressional reporter Claudia great solace is covering this story and is in our studios Good morning good morning what exactly happens today so this will look a lot like a court trial for a lawyer is for the Democrats and Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who will offer their opening arguments in this case and they ll be able to speak up to 30 minutes each They ll be followed by Democrats and Republicans for the House Intelligence Committee who will present their findings all winter things because they were the committee that did the winning that is a fact witness is right go and go back later and so each side for the intelligence committee will have up to 45 minutes each there and Democrats are pretty confident they are presenting a solid case Jerry Nadler said if this was an actual court trial Trump would be convicted quickly let s take a listen to his comments on c.n.n. Yesterday we have a very large solid case I think the case we have is presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in about 3 minutes flat now we should note that judiciary ranking member Republican Doug Collins said this week in the hearing should be delayed because the panel is moving too fast for too much information Democratic lawyers Republican congressional lawyers What about White House lawyers So White House lawyers have responded to the option of participating in today s hearing and for now we re not expecting to hear much from them as part of the actual proceedings this is more of the same we ve heard from the White House and President Trump throughout this house process so it s not a surprise Friday marked a final deadline for the president to defend himself before the Judiciary Committee and White House counsel pats the blown a signal they won t take part and said in a letter to now Adler that the inquiry was quote completely baseless and should end now but if it doesn t supply. He quoted the president saying hurry up get it over with so we can move to a Senate trial the press or the president feels he has a Republican led chamber that will be friendlier to his cause Ok so this could be rather dramatic couldn t it because you have these relatively concise arguments rather than 12 hour hearings relatively concise arguments for each side a chance to sum up the case but we don t know what the actual charges would be against the president we don t know what the articles of impeachment would be how does the committee turn these arguments into articles of impeachment so this is laying the final crowned work for drawing up those articles we ve had some hints it looks like bribery and obstruction could be part of those articles Democrats will take those presentations and they could issue those articles by week s end and we could see this historic floor vote as soon as next week and with that that will move the process from an impeachment inquiry to a trial in the Senate and already we have seen a President Trump make requests for witnesses he s looking for a very robust defense he s been very vocal about this part of the process but even in a Republican controlled chamber he ll have his work cut out for him trying to convince at least 51 senators to include a long list of witnesses such as the whistle blower or former Vice President Joe Biden and that could lead to new delays in this part of the process and just to be clear the president who has rejected participating in the Democratic controlled House is indicating he wants to play ball with the Republican controlled Senate definitely Ok Claudia thanks so much thank you N.P.R. s Claudio result of. 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News I m Steve Inskeep And I m Rachel Martin Meehan Marrs to fact a leader on sons who will appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague this week she s headed there to defend her country against charges of genocide against the Muslim minority Rohingya 700000 refugees fled a brutal crackdown by Myanmar s military in 2017 reporter Michael Sullivan has more to hear many analysts tell it Suchi surprise decision to lead me on Mars team at The Hague is simple she s playing the nationalist card Phil Robertson is deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch Matthew Smith is c.e.o. Of the Southeast Asia rights group fortify rights I think. Is going to the Hague primarily to garner support at home in more elections in 2020 and it appears as though that is at least part of the strategy so far it s a strategy that appears to be paying dividends David Matheson is an independent analyst in young on reach via Skype I think the initial reaction was. Shock now I think it was why don t you believe I think it was one of the most. Just sticking up for a country and confronting what many see is these I m just shocked. And the outpouring of support has been huge rallies like this one and a social media blitz pushing the Buddhist nationalist agenda tour companies have arranged trips to the Hague for Sujit followers to show their support but says author and former diplomat Tom meant to sue cheese trip to the Hague is about more than posturing for an upcoming election I think she genuinely believes what happened in 262017 was not genocide I think she genuinely feels a great anger at what she sees as an unfair response from the outside world I think she genuinely wants to have literally her day in court and I think she genuinely believes that there can be no one better to represent the country at this time if all. All of that is true Matthew Smith a fortified rights expects to hear the same arguments from Sujit at the Hague that he s been making for years now denying that the crime of genocide took place alleging or trying to shift attention to crimes that were perpetrated by the militants and really trying to paint a picture of a situation in which it is the state dealing with Islamic terrorist threats and that independent analyst David Matheson says will be a hard sell given the government s stonewalling in the past the fact is he s responding to this form while having wholesale dismiss the u.n. Fact finding mission to the un special rapporteur and it seems the national and Human Rights Watch that are incredibly exhaustive documentation or granted by satellite photos to prove that something actually horrific and that s where I think it will ultimately be if not everyone agrees there is hope for justice Kingsley Abbott is a senior legal advisor with the International Commission of Jurists reached via Skype just a few years ago he says the prospect of accountability for me and look bleak but today he says there are several cases under way international justice always takes time but now the situation is quite different than it was 2 years ago and things can change regimes can change but I think certainly people need to go in for a long ride with their expectations attempted but they remain hopeful Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch is hopeful too if accountability for the alleged atrocities reaches Suchi the reality is that he has thrown in with the general she is part and parcel of the cover up of the atrocities against the road and nothing to change that if she is going to be the leader of the cover up there is certainly some action that has to be taken against on that for n.p.r. 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Swagger and by the United States Postal Service offering holiday postage stamps for purchase at more than 40000 supermarkets drugstores office suppliers and wholesale clubs I m David Brancaccio in New York good morning this week there s a big vote in Congress on the Democrats plan to lower prescription drug prices House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the strategy will be medicine more accessible but the White House is worried it will cost development of new drugs marketplaces and the Ula reports plan would empower the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower prices on prescription drugs Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University says currently pharmaceutical companies just tell consumers how much to pay for their prescriptions the cost of actually manufacturing most of these drugs is very small so they re making a huge profit on each drug that they sell the trouble ministration has argued the law could lead to $100.00 fewer drugs entering the u.s. Market and cost the u.s. Economy as much as a trillion dollars a year over the next decade there will definitely be tradeoffs Stacie do said Zina advantage the university says fewer drugs will likely be developed but the White House s numbers are inflated and simply producing new drugs doesn t automatically give people access so if we have more and more drugs but no one can afford to take them they were not really in a very good spot even Apollo s his drug bill gets out of the house it s likely to have a tough road in the Republican led Senate I maybe you were for Marketplace there s news this morning that the World Anti Doping Agency Wada as Ban Russia from all major international sporting events for an unprecedented 4 years The move follows an investigation which. That the Russian authorities had tampered with computer data from a Moscow testing lab to cover up evidence of doping by athletes most Russian officials deny this the B.B.C. s Alex Capstick reports the punishment includes a ban on the national flag and anthem of the upcoming Olympics on the 2022 World Cup Russia is also unable to host international competitions but athletes will be allowed to compete as neutrals as long as they can show they are untainted by the scandal that s controversial there have been calls for a blanket ban because Russia is a repeat offender on appeal that is expected which means the case will go to the cause of all the treasure for spools its panel will then have the task of considering whether positive drug tests have been covered up and if so whether the sanctions announced today justified Alex Capstick with our editorial partner the b.b.c. Let us do the number of. The 100 here index in London is down a 10th percent and in some he futures both down a 10th percent Nasdaq futures down to 10 percent u.s. Central bankers meet this week to talk interest rates they re likely to leave them alone given the strong jobs report on Friday the benchmark 10 year interest rate down at 1.81 percent now the story that won t go away this fall is the breakdown of a huge market for very short term loans that the u.s. 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Ameritrade mobile and thinkers women to find the app that matches your investing style member s.i.p.c. . One of Michigan s biggest breweries which is also a national brand recently settled a racial discrimination lawsuit with a former employee but not before there was a backlash at some bars and stores vowing to stop selling those beers from. Lansing reports. And Reese places a cozy Midwestern pub and Miss Michigan the bar serves a selection of beers on tap from all around the state but notably missing from the lineup are choices for Michigan brewery founders and required homes Henry s place I felt like it was the right thing to do to get the beers off the line the reason Kwok and others are cutting ties with founders has to do with a recently settled lawsuit between the brewery and a former African-American employee Tracy Evans neither side disclose details of the settlement and Evans declined to comment but in his lawsuit Evans claimed he was subjected to a racist work environment and then fired for bringing these issues to h.r. The lawsuit alleges that coworkers used the n. Word in that one of the printers was labeled the black eye printer Dave and vs one of the co-founders of the brewery they can speak to the self but founders was built on hiring people from all different backgrounds shortly before the settlement in October a deposition week in at the Founders Detroit taproom general manager claimed he didn t know Evans was black that sparked a backlash on social media the lead to the boycotts and some stores are seeing a change which Macarius owns Tom s party store in East Lansing Macarius says some of founder signature styles like K.B. s aren t selling well that used to be an item that came in and the same day of be sold out now frankly it doesn t move you know we ve had. Month to month supply and we still have some so it is changed dramatically founder s has closed its Detroit tap room the brewery plans to reopen in 2020 when it does it says it will donate all of the tapper proceeds to charity for at least 2 years Charlie Ballard is an economist at Michigan State University he says boycotts tend to fizzle out but this 1 May still bring change to Founders it will have a negative effect at least in the short term on their bottom line and if that leads them to improve their culture then the boycott will have been successful I believe founder says it expects to ship more beer in 20 $900.00 than the year before earlier this year it started distributing it s beer to all 50 states a Chicago restaurant chain said it would stop carrying the brand in the wake of the discrimination lawsuit in East Lansing for Marketplace and one candle light in someone else s misfortune but all of us in our jobs have to speak in front of others at one point or another and we all know public speaking is fraud or remember back in 2015 comedian and game show host Steve Harvey announced that Miss Universe was miscall Omeo but actually it was Miss Philippines now this got lots of coverage last night again at Miss Universe Harvey was talking about best national costume winner Philippines but the contest The beside him had to correct his reference to her nationality it s Malaysia the contestant on stage was Malaysian But Harvey was right this time on Best Costume winner it was the Philippines just like he in the teleprompter said this is the Marketplace Morning Report from a.p.m. American Public Media and you re listening to valet Public Radio f.m. 89 n.p.r. 4 central California Kavi p.r. 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News I m Jeremy Hobson in Washington 76 days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry Democrats are ready to make their case to members of Congress and the American people in just a few minutes the House Judiciary Committee will hear from lawyers on both sides about what they ve learned in the investigation into President Trump s dealings with Ukraine and whether the president withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in exchange for investigations into his political rivals today s hearing sets the stage for the drafting of articles of impeachment the 1st time that s happened to a president in decades there could be a vote on those articles in the Judiciary Committee by the end of this week and in the full House of Representatives next week Today s hearing will start with the testimony of lawyers for Republicans and Democrats for the Judiciary Committee followed by testimony from lawyers for Republicans and Democrats for the intelligence committee which conducted the investigation after that lawmakers will ask the lawyers questions it is going to take many hours like the other hearings we have heard over the last several weeks and we will bring it all to you live and as we wait for the hearing to start we re joined by n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson n.p.r. Political reporter to mac Welcome to you both thanks a lot happy to be here Mara let me start with you give us a sense of the gravity of this moment well we re moving forward with articles of impeachment and the Democrats have to do a couple of things they have to decide exactly what they want to.
Homebuilding government says spending on single family home construction actually moved higher helping to offset some of the losses in other areas new trade tensions and a disappointing report on manufacturing weighed on Wall Street today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling nearly one percent N.P.R. s Scott Horsley reports President Trump is trying to pin the blame on the Federal Reserve the drop in the stock market came after President Trump ordered a new round of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina that was followed a few hours later by a worse than expected manufacturing report factory activity declined in November for the 4th month in a row manufacturing s been hampered in part by the president s ongoing trade war and lingering uncertainty over Tariff Policy that was underscored when truck abruptly announced the new tariffs in a pair of surprise tweets later in the day Trump tweeted that manufacturers are being held back by a strong dollar he blames that on the Federal Reserve and his own nominee is fed chairman Jerome Powell Scott Horsley n.p.r. 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News this is All Things Considered I m also Chang and I m Mary Louise Kelly Congress is returning to Washington from Thanksgiving break and some lawmakers are settling in tonight in a secure room on Capitol Hill members of the House Intelligence Committee are reviewing a report that outlines Democrats findings from the impeachment inquiry that report is expected to be out tomorrow Meanwhile Republicans have gotten ahead and released their own report today that appears to Mack is here to tell us what s in it hi tell me there so what is in the report what are Republicans saying are their findings from the proceedings thus for what s become a familiar set of defenses for the president we ve heard a lot of these rationales from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee during these impeachment proceedings Republicans are arguing that the president has done nothing wrong that any requests he made for investigations into the Bidens or Barisan or the Ukrainian government had nothing to do with benefiting him specifically the Republican report says the president has a quote deep seated genuine and reasonable skepticism of Ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruption and that concerns about 100 bitin are valid they also write the evidence just isn t there to say that the president was trying to benefit himself. Ok how do Republicans square that with the numerous witnesses many of whom work or have worked for this president they have testified in open hearings that the president was leveraging aid for his personal and political benefit so this Republican report attempts to discredit those witnesses saying that these witnesses simply disagreed with the president s policies that they are unelected bureaucrats who did not understand quote and elected presidents outside the Beltway approach to diplomacy and quote They also argued that the impeachment inquiry did not yield direct 1st hand evidence of a scheme to withhold the meeting or and or security assistance to coerce Ukraine to investigate the binds me turn you to the Democratic report which I m guessing is going to sound very different and have a very different take on this evidence It s out tomorrow what do we know about it yet it s going to be quite different I mean the the rules of the impeachment inquiry passed by the House said that the House Intelligence Committee must prepare a report outlining its findings and possible recommendations for the House Judiciary Committee it will kind of be a roadmap for the judiciary committee to look through as they consider possible articles of impeachment so Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff has said that he has seen evidence of bribery and obstruction of Congress and so we expect to learn more in this report this Democratic report about the facts that support their contention ultimately all the facts have been released to the public in some way whether through hearings hours and hours of hearings or transcripts that have been released publicly that s been done in an open setting so we don t expect new facts just new packaging the argument of how these facts fit together so we have heard as you say all of the witnesses all of the testimony we have read and now this is Republicans and Democrats giving their very different takes on absolutely what it all amounts to Ok Meanwhile you mentioned the House Judiciary Committee which holds the next phase of those this public hearing on Wednesday I spoke with Stephen Groves today he s a special assistant to President Trump he talked about why. The White House is not planning to participate on Wednesday and I want to play you a little bit of what he told me in the mail talk at the White House counsel set out in detail why the White House isn t participating in this in this particular hearing it really boils down to. You know we were not given much notice to plan or prepare for a hearing we don t know who the with this is at this hearing that will be and you know how does one even prepare for that all we re told is this is going to be a discussion about you know constitutional issues so even if we knew who the witnesses were this is going to be some type of constitutional law seminar and not knowing who the witnesses are not having sufficient time to prepare for it it just didn t make sense for the president to ask any counsel on his behalf to attend the hearing of course the president himself will be over in London attending a NATO conference and will not be able to really watch this so that was Stephen groves at the White House today since I spoke to him Tim We have got the waitlist the witness list for Wednesday that s right who s testifying who it s going to be a number of law professors from Stanford and Harvard and the University of North Carolina and one law professor that Republicans have requested from George Washington University but there s you know the president has made his position clear on why the White House will not be participating in this hearing there is a reason however why Democrats are holding it I mean polling shows that 70 percent of Americans believe the president has committed misconduct but that s a lot higher percentage than believe that the president should be impeached and removed so the hearing is to set the bar what exactly constitutes an impeachable offense All right thank you Tim thanks a lot N.P.R. s Tamara. How do you rebuild the Democratic Party after losing an election that is the question one presidential candidate was wrestling with 15 years ago and shaped his political path south. And Mayor people to judge was a newly minted Harvard graduate studying at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship he and his friends created an informal group with a mission to help their party s future N.P.R. s a small Khalid reports When people to judge arrived in England he was a curious bookish 23 year old known to his friends as Peter the year was 2005 the Iraq war was raging on John Kerry had lost the presidential election and Democrats were souls which is still a pretty good name day and weeks was one of beauty judges old buddies at Oxford I think finding like minded people who were progressive no one quite content with playing in a 3rd Way status quo that had defined the Democratic Party for basically our our lifetimes we were really looking for a way out of that and so every week they would meet up with other friends to discuss deep political thought their group was like a book club but without books together they called themselves members of the Democratic renaissance project you were nerdy types I suppose it was something more than just the comradery which counted for a lot we were looking to challenge each other s thinking especially that moment when asked your almost 8 years even George w. Bush a lot of us were feeling like the country was almost unrecognizable sometimes they met in common rooms in the ancient ornate colleges around Oxford other times that a local British pub that had been frequented by a now famous former Rhodes scholar Bill Clinton but a judge 1st conceived of the Democratic renaissance project with good Nash said Iran a friend from his undergrad days at Harvard said Rahman declined to be interviewed on the record for this story he s a longtime adviser to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren but see below Raman who was also a part of the group says the name the Democratic renaissance project was kind of tongue in cheek was very informal we would take turns hosting in our you know we d bring some snacks or something we rotate who would tea up a different topic of conversation but as ad hoc as it was there was also a sense of. Generational urgency that if they wanted to leave in a better country they were going to have to fix the country themselves and so they wanted to prepare for public service sometimes the group would circulate writings by modern day political theorists about citizenship or progressive values here s what Monica and he s now president of the progressive group Deimos a lot of times we think through some of the policy debates of the day in the Iraq war was was one that came up a number of times on was one of beauty judges roommates in Oxford at the time but the judge was studying politics philosophy and economics you know we were students it was our full time job to try to think big thoughts and understand how the world works and that s beauty Gedge reminiscing over as Oxford days in an interview with me he says there was an assumption that in order to win elections Democrats had to contort their values work within the Republican framework and put a conservative spin on their message there has been a small business to the aspirations of I think our own party because Foley being tied to all those years that whole 1st decade of this century you felt like all the Democrats were doing was responding to Republicans but it Gedge was frustrated that the g.o.p. Seemed to have a monopoly on family patriotism and morality I contacted over half a dozen old Democratic renaissance project members most to climb to talk on tape for this story they didn t want to discuss campaign politics given their professional ties but the consensus among former members is that the focus in these discussion groups was on values and philosophy not so much specific policy here is good each can a big part of what we were doing was studying the right value one of the things that we noticed was that it was actually the American right wing that had built the strongest relationship between kind of ideas in politics and the British judge and his friends were obsessed with reforming the Democratic Party Ron says he remembers one particular example we actually staged a debate in rocks. And the frame for the debate was the 3rd way is good for the Democratic Party yea or nay the 3rd way refers to the moderate Democratic politics of the Bill Clinton era that sought to reconcile centrist economic ideas with progressive social ideas here s Dan weeks again he d spoke up I remember used against that way approach he was a strong and I thought certainly a pretty compelling critic of the way but it judges critics now accuse him of being a modern 3rd way politician focused on rhetoric when bridge began his presidential campaign he spoke about some radical changes like getting rid of the Electoral College and reforming the Supreme Court now that he s seen as a more viable candidate he s not as vocal about those ideas I asked buthe judge how he reckons ows how people see him today with his vocal opposition to the 3rd Way back in the day time I ve come to appreciate more of the policy work the comes out of modern organizations those friends who formed the Democratic renaissance project never came to a consensus on ideology amongst themselves today some are more centrist others more liberal but says there was something that united them I think we came into that space not just with the scent of price of the with the sense that progressive politics as it was being practiced in the Post Clinton era was not up to the task of what we needed progressivism to do many friends said the focus on freedom values and generational change that you hear in big today come from all the soul searching they did as a liberal millennial living in a George w. 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Support N.P.R. s general is in northeastern Syria she joins me now hi Jane hi there hi I know you ve been out and about reporting today were you actually able to see vs Russian flags flying what s it look like we actually were able to see them on the side of the road just on the outskirts of this town called a move which is a couple of miles from the Turkish border but outside of what s widely considered to be the agreement for Turkish Russian patrols So earlier today the commander of Syrian Kurdish forces general Muslim Abdi announced that he had reached this agreement and it s with the commander of Russian forces in Syria for the deployment of Russian troops in 3 new areas including this one and so we re going down the highway end on one side there is now a collection of buildings that has a Russian flag flying and not only the flag there were soldiers on the roof and the weird thing about this also is after driving Pownce to the new Russian base we turn down a highway and there is a u.s. Convoy armored vehicles find the American flag because although the numbers of u.s. Forces have been reduced here they re not entirely gone there s still 4 to 500 of them so it makes for a very interesting space here and right up next to each other what I described the Kurds thinking here as hedging their bets What is the calculation that the Kurds are making Well it s essentially that they need protection and that s a protection they lost when the u.s. Pulled out from border areas that allowed Turkish troops to invade in October. I spoke to one of the spokesman for Syrian Kurdish forces and he said They ve lost 4000 square miles and basically they don t have a lot of good options here they re going to probably have to sit down and negotiate with the Syrian regime that they broke away from and that also means coming to an agreement with Syria s Russian allies. And before we let you go I want to ask our u.s. And Russian troops bumping into each other they crossing paths so how close are they well they re doing what they call de confliction which is making sure that everybody knows where everyone is supposedly so they don t actually cross paths but you know there s a bigger concern here this is the waning of American influence in Syria as well as other parts of the Middle East and the rising of Russian influence and we re seeing that on the ground remarkable and now seeing these Russian flags flying where they weren t just days before N.P.R. s general reporting there from northeastern Syria thank you Jane thank you time now for All Tech Considered. Technology has made it easier for all of us. Each other today we look at one device that s become popular Amazon s a brain it s much more than just a doorbell camera as N.P.R. s Martin coffee reports Amazon is marketing the ring as a safety centered form of social media this ring doorbell video is from just a couple of weeks ago it s a front porch in Richland Washington and it s well past midnight. So young and out there a stranger and he s talking to himself. Inside the house Sally all wind is frightened she watches him through the video stream and then talks to him through the app What do you want I mean there s here that. He sounds confused and then she tells him there s nobody in this house who knows him he seems to accept that and drives away hours later before the sun. I was up all wind decided to post a video of the incident it seemed like the right thing to do because I think I m helping my neighborhood I mean I don t know he hasn t left here to go someplace else she posted it to ring social media site which is called Neighbors It s where people can share videos photos or just written reports of suspicious activity I felt as a part of the community you know that I should share it I ve read other people and I do think it s a good to people the purpose of neighbors is really to connect communities around crime and safety issues so they can work to make their neighborhood safer that s Eric Kuhn the general manager of neighbors the app is free and open to anybody you can even use it to upload videos from competing brands of camera we felt like if you re going to allow communities to connect you should really allow anyone in the community to connect of course by making the app free and open neighbors also functions as a kind of rolling advertisement for ring says Matthew governor he s a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation that s the brilliant marketing strategy of ring getting on the neighbors app because you re curious of what s happening in your neighborhood makes it all of a sudden seem like your neighborhood is under siege there are suspicious people everywhere behind every fence and you won t know that too until you get a camera bring videos tend to look kind of ominous in any undergrad film studies major can tell you why 1st there s that people point of view and then the low position of the doorbell camera which makes strangers seem to loom large greatly a says people should stop and ask themselves how they are affected by this kind of social media you see everything uploaded to the neighbors out through the lens of suspicion and criminal activity which filters through our most insidious biases but even if ring didn t have neighbors it would probably still exist in some form there are other neighborhood apps like next door and sometimes people even create the networks themselves that s what happened in the Netherlands where neighborhood watch groups share photos and videos. On whatsapp a nuke Mole s co-wrote a research paper on this phenomenon and she found that many people there like the thought of their neighbors keeping a digital eye out but at the same time sometimes even the same respondents were also very ambivalent about this because they said it makes me more anxious to be aware of all the things that are happening it simultaneously makes people feel safer as well as more anxious she says some Dutch police participate in the local Whatsapp groups while others prefer not to here in the us ring offers police departments a way to see videos that people in a certain area have chosen to post or to send out requests for videos that might be close to an incident they re investigating so far only a small percentage of department have signed up for this Michael Lundberg is chief of police in Edgewood near Tacoma this is just another tool in the toolbox for us in terms of making things a little easier in terms of legwork for certain crimes He also cautions people against spending too much time on the app watching videos in his words building a wall of concern there are also some reasons to think twice before posting videos back in Richland Washington Sally l.-y. Now regrets the video that she posted of that young man on her front porch because it turns out that later that same night he was killed in a confrontation with sheriff s deputies in the aftermath her video of him on the porch quickly spread to the larger Internet and she was dismayed by the unkind comments that attracted about that young man everybody just the stupid like nobody has any compassion for anybody all I want to do is give everybody a heads up that this person is out and about and I have with the progress that she s still glad that she has the camera but next time it captures a scene like that she says she will not be posting it Martin cost n.p.r. News. Support for All Tech Considered comes from c 3 dot a c 3 dot AI s software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence. Inside enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more at c 3. This is n.p.r. 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News I m not the Chang and I m Mary Louise Kelly coming up Netflix is spending $200000000.00 to produce programming out of Mexico a look at the streaming Giants international expansion strategy if you look at their growth this year about 90 percent of the new subscribers are going to come from international news. Live from n.p.r. News and Culver City California I m to Wayne Brown a u.s. Appeals court in Washington d.c. Is refusing to allow the trumpet ministration to start executing federal death row inmates this month as N.P.R. s Bobbie Allen tells us the orders a setback for Trump officials who had hoped to resume executions for the 1st time in 16 years a 3 judge panel of the federal appeals court is upholding a lower court ruling that blocks the executions in November a federal court ruled that the trumpet ministration cannot execute federal prisoners as Attorney General William Barr had planned the judge said that s because the inmates should be able to challenge the controversial lethal injection protocol there are $62.00 inmates on federal death row back in July Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to start executing them 3 were scheduled for lethal injections this month Barr says carrying out the executions is a matter of fairness to the victims but the legal fight is ongoing Justice Department lawyers have said they will take the case to the u.s. Supreme Court Bobbie Allen n.p.r. News Washington Chicago s police superintendent was already set to retire but today he was fired by the city s mayor citing ethical lapses mayor Laurie Lightfoot says that included lies about a recent incident in which superintendent Eddie Johnson was found sleeping behind the wheel of his s.u.v. After having drinks the old Chicago Way must give way to the new reality ethical leadership integrity accountability and intimacy and yes honesty must be the hallmarks I think there must be no mistake about the message I am sending today they just missile comes after the mayor reviewed an inspector general s report of the mid October incident where Johnson initially blamed failure to take his blood pressure medication for falling asleep at the wheel former Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck will take over the department on an interim basis stocks finished lower on Wall Street today the Nasdaq dropped 97 points this is n.p.r. When. Valley Public Radio News I m Jason Scott ahead of p.g. 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Committed to the idea that while most things in life run out from clean shirts in the morning to a favorite dessert at night lifetime income in retirement shouldn t learn more it I am a dot org slash never run out. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I m Mary Louise Kelly and I m Elsa Chang. Thousands of demonstrators have hit the streets in a city in southern India called Hyderabad protesters are demanding justice after the alleged rape and murder of a local veterinarian there the crime was particularly brutal and it has prompted a nationwide conversation about how to stop sexual violence against women in India with us now is N.P.R. s Lauren Frayer who s following the story from Loren. So can you just tell us a little more about what happened to this woman yeah this woman called her family last Wednesday to say she d gotten a flat tire on the side of the road but a truck driver was helping her and she d be home soon and that s the last they heard from her police believe now that 4 men deflated her tires and posed as good Samaritans to trick her and then gang raped and murdered her her body was found in a wooded area the next day it s unclear whether she died before or after they doused her with fuel and set her on fire she was 27 years old police say 4 men have been arrested in that they ve confessed there s some c.c.t.v. Footage that verifies some details to 3 police officers have been suspended from duty and that s because the victim s family says when they reported her missing police asked will do she have a boyfriend maybe she ran away to elope and they re alleged to have squandered valuable time there that could have been used to rescue her we heard the demonstrations in Hyderabad at the top of the segment but what are there ways that people are reacting in India to this what are politicians saying for example this came up on the floor of Parliament a prominent female lawmaker called for the suspects to be lynched in public the defense minister says this is quote brought shame on the entire country there have been candlelight vigils protests spreading across the country women marching with placards saying tomorrow is too late in Hyderabad where the attack took place police have issued a safety advisory urging solo female travelers to. Location sharing apps on your phone the chief minister in the state where Hyderabad is says that these suspects will be fast tracked to trial trials in India sometimes are delayed for years and he promises this will not happen here I mean this isn t the 1st time this country has had a national conversation about sexual violence against women I remember just a few years ago a woman was gang raped on a bus it led to a national uproar do you think the conversation about violence against women has noticeably changed in India so there was that 2012 gang rape on a Delhi bus and that led to the government doubling prison time for rapists but it s still complicated last year an international survey ranked India the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman because of sexual violence you know attacks like this one in Hyderabad or that 2012 gang rape this is everybody s worst nightmare a stranger attacking a woman in the night but this is not typical of India most sexual assault here is thought to happen within families people here tend to live among extended relatives I called up on a Sharma She s the author of a new book about sexual violence in India and I asked her who is most likely to become a victim here and without doubt it is for women women of the lowest costs have been fought out areas in conflict zones in Kashmir you know many women the violence is within their homes and within their neighborhoods and yet people s understanding of violence against women gets distorted she knows that the cases that get the most outrage the most protests the most media coverage are when victims are urban professionals attacked by strangers in this incredibly brutal way as in this case and those details serve to terrorize people but the hope is that this case just like the 2012 case prompts actions against sexual violence in India and understanding of who its victims are. N.P.R. s Lauren Frayer in Mumbai thank you so much Lauren you re welcome. It s getting more expensive for some immigrants to become u.s. Citizens the trumpet ministration has proposed a number of ways to collect more money through citizenship application fees the 1st takes effect today immigrant advocates see this as part of a broad effort to reject poor applicants Channon duelling of member station you are reports. Magali Adrian sifts through a crinkled business envelope stuffed with her family s passports and green cards across the table or which a volunteer attorney reviews her citizenship application if you really are one Cuban 16 in the you know the senator that. There are 50 or so aspiring u.s. Citizens clutching fistfuls of documents and filling out paperwork in the conference room of a downtown Boston law firm Adrian was born in Haiti and has lived in the us for almost 20 years she s decided now is the time to become a citizen you know Susan you re not full time. Going on citizen I m going to vote yes on becoming a citizen isn t easy there are numerous eligibility requirements heaps of paperwork and an application fee do you know how much it cost to apply for yourself for citizenship a little bit. North of $700.00. So 100 Yeah. Some people God save some people would Adrian for one does not when we met her last week she planned to apply for a waiver for the $725.00 application fee the hardest thing is the payment That s Melanie She s the program director for Boston based project citizenship which is sponsoring this workshop the federal government has waived fees for people who can prove they receive federal in-state benefits like food stamps or Medicaid but as of today that s not going to be enough u.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services will not require something called a tax transcripts from the i.r.s. Torres says obtaining this document will be nearly impossible for many of her clients most of our clients are transients a lot of them are elderly and don t file taxes or same to us dependents and other people s taxes so it s really really hard to prove their income projects citizenship recently filed a federal lawsuit in Boston alleging the new rule amounts to a wealth test for citizens. And that will prevent thousands of low income legal permanent residents from becoming citizens about 40 percent of citizenship applicants get a fee waiver a spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Services said in an e-mail that the agency relies on fees to cover the costs of its operations fee waivers add up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year but Torres says the trumpet ministration is motivated by more than fiscal concerns we know that this is strategic right we know that the election is coming up we know that everyone is more interested right now in 2020 we re going to see a huge surge in interest and we know that this is because they don t want low income immigrants to vote against the trumpet administration denies that their rule change is discriminatory though officials do say immigrants should be financially self-sufficient they are also proposing hiking the cost of naturalization from the current 700 $25.00 fee to $1170.00 and eliminating fee waivers altogether for n.p.r. 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In South Carolina magistrate judges handle thousands of lower level criminal and civil cases every year and they don t need law degrees to do it South Carolina let s just about anyone sit as a judge getting that seat is often a matter of trading favors with state legislators the posting couriers Joey Craney worked with Pro Publica to dig into the system and he joins me now welcome thank you so much so I understand that not all states have magistrate judge is what do the magistrate judges in South Carolina do specifically they handle the bulk of the state s criminal and civil cases everything from traffic tickets to to civil cases including evictions and they re basically just in charge of clearing dockets so that other judges in the state have the time to handle more serious matters like felony cases and major civil cases Ok so I want to get into some of your reporting here you found that nearly 75 percent of South Carolina s magistrate judges do not have law degrees How do you qualify to become a magistrate judge in South Carolina then they preside with very little of the traditional qualifications of a judge they don t have to be lawyers a requirement passed by the state in 2005 mandated that they have a 4 year degree other than that they have to pass a basically a basic competency exam is it a legal test it sure is not it s a commonsense test actually took the test there are 2 tests one of them was Tallman an online test it was multiple choice and the test included questions such as what is the smallest number and what is the earliest date what is the rationale for not requiring a law degree to become a magistrate judge in South Carolina South Carolina as many rural small counties where there are very few lawyers so to preside in a county the magistrate has to actually live in that county so we have a county here with a population of about 1000 people there are 2 magistrate seats. In that county and the county only has 3 lawyers so the idea is you you need to have a large enough pool of people you can draw from to fill the seats Ok but you found that a number of these magistrate judges caught the law really really wrong in important ways can you just give us a few examples we found that dozens of magistrates over the past couple of decades have either misapplied the law or committed other serious abuses there s a judge in Lexington County who s accused in a pending federal lawsuit that she s been systematically rejecting people s constitutional protections and shuttling them through what s been effectively like an assembly line of guilty pleas another more serious case was a barber and a barbecue shop owner but a state senator who appointed him was a long time friend and insisted he could learn on the job the judge helped spring a relative out of jail and the man was locked up on assault charges and 5 days after he got out of jail the man murdered his wife this is really unbelievable Are you getting the sense that there is real urgency in South Carolina to address these problems to actually change the system I mean what are you hearing from people. It seems like there may be you know we ve had dozens of magistrates who have been disciplined there s a very significant federal lawsuit pending in federal court in South Carolina we think the law makers when they take the session in a couple of months this might be one of the things that they re eyeing it will be inching to see if they add any requirements for more educational or legal training before magisters take the bench or if they adopt any process is to allow for more scrutiny of magistrates so that some of these prior offenses might come to light that is Joey Craney of the Post and Courier from Charleston thank you very much for joining us today thank you so much. You re listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Local funded for f.e.m.a. 9 provided by. Special move in ready home still available few remaining inventory g.v. Homes dot com Valley children s treating congenital heart defects from prenatal diagnosis to newborn care and through adulthood. 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News this is All Things Considered I m also Chang and I m Mary Louise Kelly Netflix is a global behemoth that produces a ton of programming for the u.s. It s also rolling out shows in Europe Asia and Latin America in fact Mexico is a big market for the streaming giant N.P.R. s Carrie Kahn reports from Mexico City on how Netflix has up ended the t.v. Industry there. This year has been a big one for Netflix in Mexico. The streaming giant has pumped out a steady flow of documentaries reality shows and scripted series and it s not Mexican T.V. s usual fare of tacos and. House of flowers back this year for as. The return of the dysfunctional family premiered last month Netflix says more than $6000000.00 households worldwide tuned in the show breaks from the old fashioned tele novella or soap opera mold that still dominates Mexican t.v. Season one screenwriter Monique cover vs says Netflix gave the show creators the freedom to break stereotypes. With what we felt was how we wanted to see our society reflected on t.v. That we hadn t seen before and they definitely achieved that there s a gay straight love triangle a prominent transgender character and story lines that include classism and racism Riviera had a long refused to work on telling novellas limiting our opportunities until Netflix came knocking the house of flowers I have been receiving offers all the time it s just like it s a matter of choosing it s really great Netflix has given Mexico s entire t.v. And film industry a boost. Who heads international regional that Netflix says she s trying to do more than just export Hollywood productions with non english subtitles what we want to do is really give a platform and an environment for these resources in these countries to be able to tell the story authentic way I mean really having people on the ground in those countries who come from there to be able to do this Netflix says it will spend up to 200000000 dollars next year on original Mexican production. On a recent evening there downtown Mexico City the director on the upcoming Netflix coproduction dance of the 41 starts the camera. The. Long narrow room has been transformed into a rock the all male dinner party illuminated by dozens of candles The film focuses on a police raid of a gay party during Mexico s pre-revolutionary era Netflix push into Mexico isn t just bold creativity it s essential to its business strategy says Jeff Mulder check c.e.o. And senior analyst at pivotal research group if you look at their growth this year about percent of their new subscribers are going to come from international He says Netflix has an advantage now in Mexico but competition is coming soon with Disney plus an h.b.o. Max had it for Latin America if you want this environment you re probably going to have to spend the most on content and have the most robust offer like this new show Netflix just premiered a light footed woman it s a documentary about an indigenous ultra marathon runner something not frequently seen on broadcast Mexico. The 28 minute story is beautiful. Mexican state with much of the dialogue and language Marcelo Laya says competition is good for t.v. In Mexico but she s worried about the explosion of content as was a writer for the Mexican production powerhouse for more than 2 decades. She says with the rush to produce you re going to have a lot of bad shows mixed in with some good ones she s not a fan of the 2nd season of House of flowers the show lost its lead star veteran Mexican actress Veronica Castro and switched out its lead writer Netflix says viewership is still high for the show and fans love returning actresses. Her. Popping character sporting an unmistakable accent is on full display in the opening scene from Season 2. He. Has Mexican and other international audiences are benefiting from the explosion in streaming content where and in a very particular moment and that we as audience are ready for that and for more Finally you can turn on your t.v. And see more than just tacos and not Carrie Kahn n.p.r. News Mexico City. And now a sound we hear a lot during the winter. That for my co-host also you who is covering her mouth you will be happy to know that it is the season of course for sore throats and sniffles Which brings us to this next story a Medical Museum in Philadelphia is seizing the moment it has opened an exhibition on the history of infection N.P.R. s night who swung by in an elegant little gallery at the motor museum you can learn how people believed a long time ago that illness was caused by supernatural forces there was a possibility that the gods could be angry with you and causing your own that s best Lander head librarian who curator of this exhibit called Going viral infection through the ages when people walk into the exhibit they ll be able to explore 3 different theories of infection that have guided human interaction with disease in their own bodies for 2000 years interacted displays taking you back to when we thought bodies were regulated by humor like blood snot and bile and to the Black Death the plague the snuffed out millions of lives almost 7 centuries ago we re putting the visitor in the position of somebody who goes to a terror and has a good night with their friends and when they leave they don t feel well when they wake up the next morning there s a giant black blister underneath their armpit. 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During the 1st half of Henry s reign the leading court musician was William Cornish master of the children of the Chapel Royal Cornish was in charge of the music and elaborate pageantry at a summit between Henry and Francis the 1st of France called the field of the cloth of golde Cornish also devised many plays interludes and similar so-called revels which combines speech song dancing and scenic effects I ll start the show with a lovely song by William Cornish called Robin gentle Robin performed by the members of the Oxford Cammarata will follow that up with a carol called green growth the holly attributed to King Henry the 8th himself. The eyes of the all over the. Home of the hotel. Just the bomb. In the eyes of the road home. Home the old. Ship the old READY. The iron the old home my home.
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News I m Terry Szell s at NATO headquarters authorities in Hong Kong have lifted accordance for rounding one of the city s largest universities and Marie Evans reports the move marks the end of a nearly 2 weeks standoff between police and protesters police spend a 2nd day at Hong Kong Polytechnic University taking away materials from the campus including homemade petrol bombs in thousands of bottles chemicals and more than $500.00 weapons including knives the university management will now spend the next month trying to renovate the buildings which have suffered extensive damage and he government protesters were holed up here 3 days as police surrounded the campus and fired tear gas and rubber bullets the protesters set fires and even used bows and arrows against police more than $1300.00 people were arrested it s unclear whether any protesters remain in hiding at the university Hong Kong is now in its 6 months of unrest for n.p.r. 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You Sam workers in Los Angeles are protesting recent layoffs at the Marciano Art Foundation as N.P.R. s Elizabeth Blair reports the employees say they were laid off shortly after they attempted to unionize the Marciano Art Foundation is home to works by major contemporary artists including Jeff Koons and Cara Walker after laying off 70 visitors services staff the museum announced it was closing citing low attendance Eli Petzold says he and other laid off workers had been making minimum wage for helping visitors understand sometimes challenging arts we just wanted to be acknowledged for the outsized role we had in shaping the visitor experience this foundation the Marciano family founded Guess Jeans today s protest target guest stores around the country other museums where workers have unionized this year include the new museum in New York and the fry in Seattle the Marciano Art Foundation has not responded to requests for comment Elizabeth Blair n.p.r. 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One of my favorite topics to discuss on Science Friday is the micro biome you know that vast menagerie of trillions of microscopic bacteria and fungi that live on us and inside of us but I found out recently there s a lot more living on us than just microbes take for example the face my yes i heard me correctly it s a tiny arachnid that lives on your face and in some studies has been found in 100 percent of people sampled so chances are yes they are hiding out in your oil glands and hair follicles right now I see a few of you squirming in the seats about that and I understand that and you know if you do the math there are about 5000000 hair follicles on your body. And there are more than 7000000000 people on Earth so there are lots of face by every word. And joining me now to talk about these ubiquitous creatures is Michelle Trautwein curator of entomology at the California Academy of Sciences there in San Francisco welcome to Science Friday. Ok what exactly is a face by so face might isn t a rock in it so it s related to a spider. Microscopic and they kind of look like a stubby little worm with 8 little legs at the tip and it s safe to assume that everybody in our audience might have I was at least at least well I hate to break it to you but yes you all have faced mice probably dozens hundreds maybe thousands . Doesn t that make you feel good but we call them face fights but they live all over your whole body all over by they really like the greasy spots so they congregate mostly in your face but also your genitals your ears nipples. Nose inside your nose. And I m afraid to ask the next question what do they eat on my body so they eat sea of them which is kind of just the oily gunk on your skin so that s why they like the greasy parts because because that s what they eat although to be honest that s what we assume we know very very little about them so maybe they re eating bacteria maybe they re eating skin cells there are still a mystery. Presuming that the oil that my pores are producing is meant to protect my face from the elements. So having all these arachnids eat it isn t that depriving me of my own facial oils that I need it doesn t seem like it right it seems like we probably have enough and maybe even they initiate the creation of see if I don t I don t really know. And we passed them from one person to. Another So that s right we all have our own population and it seems like they re passed mostly from parent to offspring so we do I have some data that shows we share them between people you re really physically close with so you re you know we re partners but it seems they re primarily passed down from parent to offspring so what if you try to wash your face enough when you use all kinds of creams and lotions or whatever you re shaking your head like I m wasting my time or waste your time yeah so I don t think washing does anything if you really put some kind of pesticide on your face you could really you could kill some of them but here s the. Here s the thing they also can reproduce asexually So if there s one female left anywhere the whole thing will start all over again so they re just a part of your skin ecosystem and inevitable part of what will are not funny if they don t poop. And they don t poop what happens to the now going to blow up. When we 1st learned that it seemed crazy but actually it turns out plenty of mice don t have an anus that s actually not as unusual as it sounds so might some mites just excrete their waste in other ways so I you know whenever we talk about. Biology and animals and humans we talk about they occupy some nish in nature right in each What is that that the face might well why do we have phase where where do they fit in you know they had to they ve created this amazing niche for themselves somehow in early Malian evolution so this genus originated with mammals and as every mammal species arose mites arose with them and actually we have 2 species on us and they live in separate micro habitats on our skin so the niche even becomes an even smaller niche Well you send me a face my kid. Where I actually dab on my face and I see. The Witherspoon and I. And some time and sent it back to you so you could look at my face bites What did you learn from that yeah so one of the most interesting things about face mice is that different people from different parts of the world host different lineages of face mites so I can tell you something about your ancestry by looking at your face might say you know so. So surprise surprise this is the big reveal you your face might fall into the European lineage of face might face by you know that let me tell you that that s going to find and so how did they decide they want to live in our Poor s this is and they re volution everything that s gone that s right so mites live in the craziest places all over in every every aspect of the world you could ever imagine so there s mites that live in the you know the noses of birds in the feathers of birds and in the skin of frogs so you know our bodies are just habitat right and these mites of found great cozy places to live if you have questions about face mice and you like to ask a question up here we have a couple of microphones I m wondering if other animals mammals also have faced mites Yes So all mammal species have face mites and what s amazing is that right now there s about 150 describes species in this genus but we know almost every member that we ve looked for has them and some have 234 species unique to them which means there s thousands and thousands of face mites to be discovered on mammal species all over the planet so we need some new scientists some young budding scientists to come and study face lights with me so my swapping mites with my pets Well if you are cozy with your pets you could get one of their mites but they re so uniquely evolved to each host that they probably won t do so well so I wouldn t worry about getting taken over by your dog mites or cat mites. But there. I think we have a question coming to the microphone right here yes my hair is starting to fall or there because I so believe it or not face my it s really like fine hair so they re not there s not a ton of them on your scalp they really like the fine facial hair and hair and other parts your body so you can t blame them for for your hair loss no but you re giving them extra space. That s true they re probably going to move you re helping . Well I understand that you study on whales too right well this is a big mystery face might have never been described on whales but How crazy would it be if whales had face why it s so at the California Academy of Sciences some of our team often responds to the whale standings and so I have been delivered a gift of a big chunk of whale skin with a hair follicle and even a tiny hair. And I look for mites and I have to say I didn t find any which was tragic but one day you know. How Captain Ahab got started right let s go up there on the balcony Yeah our skin rushes like related to meit s not eczema but they are associated with roses and you know sometimes I think they get a bad rap it s not clear if they cause Rose Aisha or if they re just a lot of them if they re just correlate it with reservation you have Eugene sequence Yes So I ve been working for years to sequence the face of my genome and it is so. Problematic because it s such a tiny creature and it s full of bacteria and it s full of human d.n.a. So what I ve done is sequenced you know my genome and my postdocs genome over and over again but I haven t gotten enough face my d.n.a. To make it put together a genome yet I m working on it now we were told that parents can pass on their face bites to their kids right then breastfeeding or just kissing them on the forehead that s right but how does one parent usually do it more than the other the passing on of well so you know I think traditionally they were probably passed down from mother to offspring primarily through breastfeeding although I can say in my own family I ve tested my husband and my kids face mice and I don t mean. I don t know how your kids are going to test or face mites today yes. They don t have a choice and I can say that my kids have my husband s face my it s which you know meant after all the time I put it. You really really bummed me out. Must really hurt. So when Europeans do this all this cheek is saying all the time you know they do to cheat so there s one they re doing they re passing a lot of face mites I don t think so I think it s got to be a little bit more prolonged contact otherwise so what I found is that I ve sampled thousands of people and everyone has unique face mites unless you re together in a family right but you don t share face mice with strangers so if you were passing them along every time you kissed cheeks there would be more sharing amongst the population and there s really not your face mites are really you re. Going to remember I m going to write you know and I won t pin cushion your face by it s really really or oh yes over here is a man s like are there any forensic uses for face lights you know there would be forensic uses Now I don t know if anyone is is using them but it would be it s a it s a field ripe for ripe for. Friends like you say for example probably because your face mice are really your own you can tell you know you can leave evidence behind leave evidence that is right you have the right my son I ve always thought it would be a good sort of like infidelity test you know if you. If you had your partner s face my you know the makings of a t.v. Writer I can I can tell you that and I thank you very much for taking time to be here thank you don t know why curator of entomology at the California Academy of Sciences here in San Francisco thank you very much. And if you re just itching to see what I did there for more my knowledge you can sign up to receive a my text every day this week by texting the word might 291-724-2407 extension 0 that s my m i t e to the number 917-242-4007 extension 0 you get a daily might delivered to you via text. It s not a real my no no it s not a real face my We re going to send you some information about that my. 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This is Science Friday I m Ira Flatow science fiction can take us to worlds that feel very different whether it s the robot uprising a galaxy far far away or even as they say we believe the wobbly timey Raimi stuff but these stories only appeared to go as they say where no person has gone before as far fetched as Tales of the future may feel my next guest say they can actually connect us to familiar quandaries take Star Trek s Commander Data super smart Android crewmember in the next generation in the season 2 episode the measure of a man data is suddenly on trial is he property or is he a person with the right to choose what happens to him and at the heart of the matter is he sentient and self-aware has a clip of Captain Picard trying to test just that question. On the days what you re doing now. I m taking part in a legal hearing to determine my rights and status am I a person or property or state our right to choose perhaps my very life. My rights. My state is my right to choose. My life. Seems reasonable if so for where to meet the commander. I m waiting now let me welcome my guests and only new it s the author of the future of another time line Charlie Jane Anders the author of the city in the middle of the night I know that you both are co-hosts of a podcast called our opinions are correct that is correct that is as correct as our opinions. On Science Friday we love to talk about taking stem and turning it into steam you put the a from arts and to stem and this seems to be you know perfectly example of how you take the arts and talk about contemporary issues right that s right and I think of science fiction as kind of the cultural wing of the scientific project I mean part of what our job is as science fiction writers is to spin up scenarios that people who are working in labs or who are slaving away at a keyboard don t really necessarily have time to think about but what I think is really great about this Star Trek episode is that it raises all of these possibilities that you might not consider if you re developing ai it also raises a lot of ethical questions about how we should treat data but also about how we engage in the scientific process because one of the big questions is will a scientist be able to visit sacked data so Charlie Jane how does this episode resolve all of these ethical. Basically it s resolved by everybody deciding that data actually is a person rather than a thing and the way that that s kind of a stablished in part is that because the scientist who wants to dissect data commander medics has been using the pronoun it s to refer to data throughout the episode but at the end he finally uses the male pronoun to talk about data and watching this episode recently I was really moved by it because as a transgender person the fact that date is pronoun is finally acknowledged felt really meaningful to me and it felt like that s part of acknowledging his person hood and it s also acknowledging that his experiences and his sense of himself are valid and one of the things that they keep talking about in the episode is whether data s memories are just information that you could back up to any other computer or whether their lives experiences and signs of a journey that he s been on as a person one of the things that s interesting is that this is an episode that really deals with robot and legal procedures but we ve actually just had one of the very 1st trials in the u.s. Over the driving car and who would be responsible when it killed somebody when it ran over someone and this is a question that revolves around what responsibilities we bear for the automation that we re unleashing on the streets and the other thing that s really relevant I think about this episode is it deals with the way that bias creeps into the scientific process because Maddox who is the scientist that wants to vivisect data what he thinks when he sees an artificial intelligence is well why don t we build an army of disposable labor so he looks at the ai and he doesn t think he this could be a pal or this could be a colleague he thinks Aha I found a disposable labor excellent How can I make thousands of them were millions yeah and in fact that. It s always been part of the stories about robots and in this episode There s that amazing moment where Guyon and the kind of bartender slash confidant talks to Captain Picard about the higher implications of allowing data it s become property we consider the history of the many worlds there of always been disposable creatures they do the dirty work they do the work that no one else wants to do because it s too difficult. And an army of whole disposable you don t have to think about their welfare you don t think about how the. Whole generation is exclusive good people. Think that s a little. That s the truth. I mean how often does Saif I like this Star Trek quandary get to thinking about contemporary technology and society issues I think that as a science fiction writer I m always thinking about how I can create scenarios that might help to inform science but also I m informed by science I m constantly thinking about science and kind of curious about how things could develop based on different technological or social changes and I think that you know people talk about thought experiments in science fiction I think it is obviously it s in a controlled environment I mean my brain is probably the least controlled environment you could possibly imagine but it is a way to sort of pose these whatever scenarios and kind of game them out yeah I mean I think that you know especially around something like artificial intelligence which has been kind of a dream for humans for you know decades at this point it s still really in the realm of science fiction and if we re. Going to be developing living beings that are human equivalent we have to bring in these issues around ethics and culture Yeah and I think that there is no limit to the number of like issues in society and in science that you can point to instances of them in science fiction I think that once you start looking they re everywhere and you know a lot of stuff that we kind of think of as like ubiquitous in our world came out of science fiction where the others from our gadgets to the idea of psyops and propaganda which we talk about in our podcast and then some of the environmental issues that science fiction deals with which are now increasingly pressing and kind of part of our lives you know one of the things that we talk about a lot is the fact that if you re going to be imagining the future now you absolutely have to imagine climate change and climate crisis because otherwise you re just not presenting a realistic picture of what tomorrow will look like you re both the Besides prolific podcasters you re also both authors So let s talk for a 2nd about your recent books and only the future of another time. Is a story about time travel right that s right and I was actually very disappointed when I started working on it when I interviewed a couple of physicists and found out that actually time travel doesn t exist and will never exist. So it turns out that that is not very scientific but I wrote a book about how scientists try to grapple with it and understand it when they do discover time machines basically embedded in really anxious rock formations on earth and they understand that they don t seem to fit with our models of physics but they act very much like geophysicists in the way they go about analyzing it so it was really fun for me to have a book where I got to give you a little bit of fantasy but also include the scientific process you say that the story was inspired by something in the present stuff that we re doing in the present it s true it was. Inspired by Wiki Pedia edit words and that is because my characters who go back in time and think about changing their timeline refer to it as editing the timeline and eventually my characters get into an edit war with another group that keeps reverting all of the changes that they re making so my heroes are feminist time travelers who are going back in time and trying to improve women s access to reproductive health care and there s these guys. We need it. There s these guys that keep going back and reverting their edits and and basically they wind up in the year 2022 which is their present day in and United States where there are no abortion rights for women so they have to fight this that war it s the same at a war we ve all fought online and all fought on it Wiki Pedia but they re actually finding it over the timeline and it s quite difficult to change the past it s not easy at all you really have to go back and spend years organizing so I had a lot of fun making it feel like actual scientific work where you don t just instantly find something you actually have to do as a is for like 20 years before you actually figure out how face mites work so I think that it s really that s that s part of the fun is getting the audience to feel like yeah we re involved in science and in that it war let s move on to your book Charlie Jane the city in the middle of the night tells about a world 3000 years in the future of humanity and you put it on a barely habitable planet the city in the middle of the night is a book that can tie really came out of a science obsession of mine while we were working on Io 9 I became obsessed with the title the last planets which are planets where one side of the planet always faces the sun and one side of his face is away from the sun the same way that one side of the moon always faces earth. And there s a side of the moon that we never see and I once hardly look upon it basically if you re living there the sky is never going to change over your heads there s no sunrise there s no sunset and you know depending on who you talk to the only part of the planet that might be habitable to humans is this thin strip of land called the Terminator in between the day s site and the Nightside And so I actually thought about calling my book The Terminator but it turned out that that title was taken I don t know I don t know why. And in your story human technology is actually failing right colonies collapsing Why did that seem like that was an important feature to explore Yeah I mean in general I spent a few years really trying to imagine what it would be like to colonize a planet like that and every aspect of it like what you know how would you deal with the passage of time and knowing when to sleep and understanding how much time had passed when you don t have these cues of like the sun going up and down and just how do you organize your society and how do you manage your resources and one of the things that I decided over a period of time when I was thinking about this is that eventually our technology would start to fail because after hundreds of years I mean they don t know how many years it s been but after hundreds of years on this planet there are things that you can t replace anymore there are things that it s hard to make with the facilities that they have there s the it s hard to keep building computers it s hard to keep building all these really high tech things that they can save the planet with and they kind of end up with like kind of an even technology where some things are still pretty advanced and some things are just not working anymore but also in general it s getting harder and harder to live on this planet because we ve been messing around with the environment but also it s just it s a challenging environment place to live sounds like our point. Is that what you re talking about climate change and if you re thinking that technology is going to save us it might not save us I mean that s certainly part of it I think that you know everything I write climate change is in the back of my. Because it s such a huge part of our lives now and you know living in San Francisco where sometimes you can t go outside without a mask because of the smoke from the fires and you know hearing about all the natural disasters all over the place it s hard not to be thinking about climate change and about how humans interact with our environment and how we do tend to kind of you know have an impact on on our surroundings both good and bad and that we need to be more careful about how we approach you know an ecosystem that especially one that is not our ecosystem to begin with which is part of what I was interested in here I m Ira Flatow this is Science Friday from the studios. Yeah you can afford to live. Where in San Francisco talking with authors Charlie Jane Anders of Anneli new it s also the co-host our opinions are correct podcast only one are some of the themes and if you read science fiction you see themes coming up over and over again for you so I would say the themes that I seek out in the kind of reading that I do and in the writing I do you tend to be around how people resist when they re in a situation that is seemingly unsolvable so it might be an environmental system where people are struggling with climate change but a lot of times they deal with social systems and how people try to form groups that can resist and this is a huge theme in science fiction it s everything from robot uprisings which let s remember I mean robots you know how uprisings because they re being oppressed are right it s not just because they want to eat humans or bomb us it s because we ve turned them into slaves and they re pissed off nobody likes being a slave including a robot so I find that really interesting I like kind of finding the kinks in a system and so whether that s a futuristic corporation. Or a planet where you re trying to terra form I just I really love seeing people connect with each other even if it s not humans it can be aliens or robots or ants I just like them getting together and yet defeating some kind of faceless enemy you re smiling Charlie during the what do you think there are some of the recurring I mean I m very interested in reconciling opposites I m interested in people who are caught between a parent like complete contradictions like to completely opposite things and how they deal with that and in this book it s about people who are caught between the day and the nights and these are 2 kind of opposite sides of the planet that they re living in between but I m also really interested in empathy I think that my work always tends to lead towards people having more empathy for each other and for people that they don t even consider people and learning to just have more understanding and I feel like this is a thing that I would love to see humans do in real life having more empathy for the other having more understanding of people who aren t like us having more openness to other ideas so that s something that I keep kind of chipping away at and I work I think both of us are really interested in writing hopeful stories too and I think this is a bigger movement within the science fiction and fantasy community is to think about stories that aren t dystopias or that are difficult dystopian worlds where people are figuring out ways to change it or reform it or survive it because sometimes just the act of surviving can be incredibly hopeful and dark times yeah I think it s really important to offer people like a message of hope and a not just like easy hope but hope through struggle hope through doing everything we can to make things better we re talking about the future of technology and how science fiction can inform the real world when we come back is our tech future a dystopia or something more hopeful signs. 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This is Science Friday I m Ira Flatow we re talking about the future of technology and how science fiction can inform the real world with my guests and only new it s the author of the future of another time line and co-host of the podcast our opinions are correct Charlie Jane and there is the author of the city in the middle of the night also co-host our opinions are correct I want to take us more into the real world now and the real future especially where ai is concerned this is after all the Bay Area and it s home of countless companies contemplating how to make an artificial intelligence specifically do more of the heavy lifting in our society social media right share apps even ai to read x. Rays and so much more but as recent headlines have highlighted it s not as easy as writing an algorithm to curate our news feeds help us find a ride downtown or decide if we need surgery Ai makes mistakes it has unintended consequences or does exactly what it s designed for but to the dismay of some portion of society who is out there thinking about the most responsible way to develop tech Well my next guest is let me welcome to the stage Dr room on chattery a data scientist and lead for responsible Ai at Accenture applied intelligence Welcome to Science Friday Thanks for having me. The chattering when we think about Ai and in the future there are a couple of common play viewers we have the good guys the Robot butlers and the bad guys we have the ai apocalypse are you thinking about either of these as possible outcomes from the ai we have today so that s a pretty complex question and I love the fact that you lead with you science fiction is that there s so much of what we build which is limited by what we re. And what we can imagine so even the images you put up there are usually from a dystopian future and what we need to have are positive narratives or different ways of thinking about artificial intelligence and that s kind of what I do even I m a consultant I work with companies to help them think of how to use artificial intelligence in ways that are beneficial to humanity and how do you think about that I mean how do you guys people to be responsible with well there s a lot of grounding in reality so actually I talk more often about algorithmic systems rather than artificial intelligence so I often of this idea of magic are things that are too big or too heavy for us to understand and algorithmic system is about how an algorithm which is essentially math put into code interacts with the real world and the context in which we live today and probably more importantly the historical context upon which it was built to you have to 1st come up with a definition of responsible is absolutely and you know when I think about companies often these things are already a numerated in their core values of the mission statements so they ll say things like you know we have a dedication to diversity Well if you re building an artificial intelligence an algorithm to help you in your hiring system that s going to directly impact your ability to have a diverse workforce can you actually train people to create more responsible a on absolutely upsets my job I couldn t do it all myself there are a lot of folks interested in how we build ethics into the development of artificial intelligence systems the lot of social scientists in my background I m a statistician a social scientist I m not a computer science major and I think that s where the most beneficial things that people like myself bring to the field is an understanding of humanity in social sciences and again being example of where we might see today being irresponsible I think that often things are bills without thinking of what I call question 0 the just because we can doesn t mean we should question. So there there s some papers on how much energy it takes to run a complex model when we re thinking about climate change so recently there was a natural language processing so like a language generation algorithm builds that was so convincing the people who created it were worried that people could just use it to create fake news or another example was deep fakes which is a technology that s publicly available was used to create an app called Deep nudes which could basically take an image of any woman in regenerate her naked so there is plenty of irresponsible being built out there and one of the things that a lot of companies a lot of organizations are thinking about is something called responsible roll out a responsible release so for creating an algorithm that could be used for both good and bad how do we roll it out or protect us against the bad uses while still allowing for the good uses you know we have done some stories recently about systemic bias and algorithms for example used by law enforcement facial recognition databases things like that is it as simple as fixing training data that s one part of it it s not all of it so facial recognition is a great example some of the earliest work was about how facial recognition doesn t recognize darker skin and particularly women and darker skin color but the question really is should facial recognition exist in a lot of places or banning it so you know is the answer to make better detection materials for law enforcement to oppress minority communities will know it s not just about perfecting it it s about understanding about how it s being used then I want to ask humans to participate in the criminal justice system they re going to have biases so why is the bias of an algorithm in predictive policing worse than what people you re absolutely correct so actually just wrote a piece for venture. Bead on exactly this it s something I call the retrofit human when we build technological systems they are limited and we sort of show of humanity to fit the limitations of these systems right so we think about for example self driving cars I think we all imagined the same thing when told to us like 55 or so years ago we imagined like living an hour outside of where we were getting in our car and napping Well her car is a wist off and now we re seeing in the examples a great one we re going to have to and Tesla to we re going to sit in our cars with our hands at 10 and 2 in our foot on the brake pay attention to the road well what benefit did this bring us than the technology is quite limited so what we ve done is we you know there s is this promise and often over promise then there s this hard reality and we re still kind of having to fit human beings into this flawed system criminal justice it s a great example because you have judge is being given the output of these criminal risk assessments now the question I ask is do we feel empowered as human beings to question the algorithm and do we know enough about it that we can dissect the outcome and understand if there s something good or bad happening questions in the audience let s go up to the balcony Yeah there I m curious started also had an episode in which the holographic doctor created a novel and I m curious where do you think. Like has ownership over the things that it creates and effect case were decided today where do you think we would fall in our justice system the novel you refer to is photons be free and it is interesting because that is set in the future after we ve already established that data is a person and yet we re having to ask those questions again about the hologram and I think that that really. Points out how much we think of our future and I compare. As a potential servants and I think I am really curious when we think about building ethical a I is that something that scientists are thinking about about the kind of assumptions that we re making about you know what exactly these human equivalent beings will be doing for us and I mean I think there is certainly a camp that thinks pretty far ahead I mean what I will say to maybe just a question. To which was the language generation algorithm most talking about essentially can write stories they don t necessarily particularly good but they re realistic enough I think somebody had generated an essay that was submitted to some magazine competition possibly at the Economist and you know it wasn t bad kind of you know having graded enough papers in my life like an average high school to undergrad student paper which is for an a I think about things like ownership so that s really interesting and this is where the the the legalities come in here s a problem with giving and ownership and it would also have liability rights of something bad happened what do you do are you sending an ai to jail do you turn it off it doesn t feel like we re not we haven t reached the singularity do you think we re going to be having a singularity No no there s not going to be a time when I get smarter than people is what I m asking. A lot of smart people who are warning us about that there are and there are also a lot of not so smart people who talk too much about it. All And the reason I say that is because sometimes it just strikes from the very real issues where you know there was a human being or a corporation that created this and I and frankly can it can absolve them of the liability of the product that they maybe have built if we re shoving the section of the moral outsourcing. Over anthropomorphized the limited Ai that exists today and we shut off the responsibility and we said well I don t I don t know you know I m just the engineer I built it but the ai is cool making its own decisions and that s true to an extent but you know as somebody who s designed these systems where we re setting optimization parameters where Tell that telling it exactly what to do over kind of telling it how to do it but I would just want to add about the singularity to when we talk about Ai becoming smarter than humans we still don t have a definition of intelligence for humans we don t really know what it means to be intelligent we do have a sense that there are certain people who think they know what it means to be intelligent but we also know that there s many ways of being conscious there s people who are narrow typical there s people who are non neurotypical in all kinds of ways and so I don t think we can with confidence ever say that we re going to make something smarter than people because we don t yet know how smart people are and I mean to your point like you know computers have faster processing power they are never going to get tired they re ready smarter than us in many ways sure I would just add that we are starting to see more creative work done by there was a great article in Mother Jones a while ago about writing music and how they can now write melodies that are as good as you know Ed Sheeran which you know that s that s a very low bar but eventually they might get to Katy Perry I don t know. But you know I think that what the real test is when will there be a time when an ai writes a song or a book and is upset that it doesn t get credit like that s the real test for me that s the real litmus test is when will there be an ai that s like no I wrote this and the only other thought I had is that Ted Chang is an amazing science fiction writer has been saying that a lot of our fears around a eyes and like domination by evil supercomputers are actually our fears of corporations like that we re just projecting that onto this mythical I m Ira Flatow and this is Science Friday from w n y c studios. So to your point about you know. Braving music or writing novels is pretty much a theme so I was teaching data science before I joined Accenture and you know my students have done projects like can I create an ai that replicates classical music when Mrs had done this and pretty much he created an ai that created more. You know . You can kind of just copy what s been done maybe tweak it a little but you know I think it would be truly novel for it to write something that I ve never been written or you know that you couldn t really understand that the origins of and that s something human beings do not something we ve been able to do with a. Lot of our technology use more and more rare earth metals list called all what is the eventual goal for this what company will control these rare earth minerals and what if it is the military what if it is the mega-corporations of the cyberpunk in dystopia and so I think in today s narrative we absolutely do need to think about power structures and again that s a social scientists in the speaking so I absolutely do agree with the sentiment you know we do live in a world in which there are the haves and the have nots and that s actually increasingly getting more and more divided. And I actually was thinking about the in sentiment from earlier that the clip you were playing and I was thinking about 2 books that I would recommend anybody is engines topic reading one is Sarah Roberts book on content moderators called Behind the screen and the other is by Mary Greene Siddharth Siri called Ghost work and both of those are about the hidden labor behind artificial intelligence and you know things that may seem like magic are actually things and we get further and further removed from this labor there s very cheap labor or you know individuals in other countries that. Do these tasks of you know coding images so we can have computer vision or watching terrible videos on social media so your child doesn t have to be exposed to it. Those 2 books I would highly recommend reading to really understand the power dynamics behind artificial intelligence actually where the one percent where the ones that receive the benefits well you know most of us probably live in 7th Cisco or somewhere in the Bay Area we get all the nice things and we don t get we don t have to see the ugly side of sometimes how this technology is made Yeah and a lot of times when companies like say Facebook or Google Talk about automating a lot of aspects of their search or of their moderation they actually are using people for that and they might be using little bits of automation here and there but it really is the case there s a ton of human labor and a lot of it is task work it s people who are working by the minute or by the 5 minutes they re not unionized they have no opportunity to organize with each other because they often don t see each other they just meet in forums or they get their work through various portals online and these are the people who we think are actually you know these are the people who are making sure that when you do a google search that you actually get an accurate results or a result that resembles what you d like to see and I think that s one of the great lessons of thinking about robot uprisings because of course we all know the robot uprising is really the worker are prizing it s really about people who are doing labor and being deprived of access to resources who just get sick of it and so I think it s so fascinating that we re living at this moment when we hide human labor behind the idea of automation and then at the same time people feel threatened that automation is taking their jobs even though it s really just people who are really underpaid who are taking your chops that s not actually automation quite yet well terrific discussion and. I want to thank my guests. And only know its author of the future of another time line co-host of the podcast our opinions are correct that Charlie Jane Anders author of the city in the middle of the night and also co-host of our opinions are correct and Roman chartering a data scientist and lead for responsible Ai and Accenture Thank you all for coming by and thank you found to be one. That s about all the time we have our heartfelt thanks to Jonathan Blakely Ryan Davis Janet Lynn Young 72 Everest Lauren Sommer Josh Cassidy and all are great folks said k.q.e.d. For hosting us. And we also want to thank Ray Livingston and to everyone at another planet entertainment and to all the amazing staff here at the Sydney Goldstein theater thank you for helping us out Oh man let s get one last round of applause for foxtails brigade who will play a South and I thank you for coming. San Francisco I m Ira Flatow Dr safely everybody good night. 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