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The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can allow businesses not to cover birth control in their insurance plans. More than 3 million people in the US have had COVID-19. Demi Lovato opened up about why she left the Disney Channel. Kids have a new way to pretend that they’re on a phone call and it’s destroying us inside. And we talk to Deb Perelman, creator of the Smitten Kitchen cooking blog, about her New York Times essay laying out how parents are being faced with a stark choice: their kids or their jobs. (Plus, we asked her to choose her top lockdown recipe suggestion.)
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Brazil’s President has tested positive for COVID-19 after doing everything in his power to downplay COVID-19. ICE warns that international students at colleges staying online-only this fall need to leave the country. Halle Berry apologized for considering taking a role as a trans character. And we talk to the inimitable Jenny Slate about her upcoming film, The Sunlit Night, her decision to step away from the biracial character she formerly voiced on “Big Mouth,” and our mutual non-existent visual art skills.
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President Trump is going all-in on making “statues good, protesters bad” his central campaign theme. Uber is offering over $2 BILLION to buy the delivery app Postmates. Hayes gets really excited about how a certain bird call has changed over time; Casey is less impressed. And we talk with the Washington Post’s William Wan about how even as the coronavirus ravages the U.S., drug overdose cases are spiking around the country.
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The FBI arrested the late Jefferey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and charged her with luring the minors he allegedly assaulted. Today’s job numbers were good — with a pretty big caveat. Kim Kardashian? Not a billionaire, despite what Kanye says. We put our producer’s non-existent knowledge of “Hamilton” to the test ahead of its Disney+ premiere. And we ask NY Times cybersecurity correspondent Sheera Frenkel why hundreds of companies are suddenly pulling their ads from Facebook.
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Some of Harvey Weinstein’s victims have agreed to a nearly $19 million potential settlement. Hong Kong police arrested dozens of pro-democracy protesters under China’s new security law. We quiz Casey on Eurovision winners in honor of the new Netflix comedy, and it goes great! And we talk to Harvard Medical assistant professor and epidemiologist Julia Marcus about the people who still refuse to wear face masks despite the pandemic — and how shaming them may make things worse.
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It’s seeming more and more likely that President Trump ignored warnings that Russia was paying militants to hunt US soldiers in Afghanistan. According to Ann Hathaway, director Christopher Nolan might not let his actors sit down on set which seems...really weird? And we have a conversation with screenwriter Alanna Bennett (CW’s Roswell, New Mexico) about the recent wave of TV shows that have removed episodes that use blackface from syndication.
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The Supreme Court struck down a law limiting access to abortion in Louisiana. The president is denying anyone ever told him about a Russian plot to pay militants to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan. Cam Newton might be the new starting quarterback for the New England Patriots??? Scaachi Koul explains why Netflix’s 365 Days, is, uh, bad. And we’ve got Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Director of Democracy Policy with Indivisible, with us to give us the rundown on the push to make Washington, D.C. into state number fifty-one.
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The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to get rid of Obamacare. Yes, all of it. Yes, in the middle of a pandemic. YouTube star Jenna Marbles has walked away from her channel, possibly forever. And the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots is this weekend. In this episode, we take you through what happened the night of the riots and talk to Elle Hearns, founder of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, about the trans rights movement in the years since Johnson took part in the uprising.
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The U.S. hit a new record with over 38,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday. If you see “The Chicks” in your iTunes library suddenly, country fans, don’t be alarmed. Chuck E. Cheese, which Casey visited at least once in her youth, has filed for bankruptcy. And we’ve got Stephen LaConte back with us for a fresh edition of DM 911, answering your questions about relationships of the romantic, platonic, or parental variety.
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Turns out the anti-police brutality protesters haven’t caused the coronavirus surges that some people were worried about. Rhode Island is dropping the word “Plantations” from its official name — oh, by the way, Rhode Island had the word “Plantations” in its official name. And there’s been an explosion of complaints about fireworks in cities across the country. We talked with BuzzFeed News reporter Caroline Haskins about what the hell is going on with that.
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