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Donald Trump has started to appoint key figures to his new administration, and one of the early picks is Tom Homan - his new ‘border tsar’. The president-elect says he wants to remove all 20 million people thought to be in America illegally. So how does he plan to do this, and what might the economic impact be?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestoryGuest: Louise Callaghan, Senior US Correspondent, The Sunday Times. Host: Manveen Rana.Further reading: Tom Homan, the man who will ‘send in the troops’ to tackle migrationClips: Bloomberg, Fox News, CBC, Fox Business, Sky News, NBC News.Photo: Getty Images. Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Vyrazil do Číny, natočil pár videí, shrábnul peníze a vrátil se domů. Český influencer Jan „Honzi“ Michálek. K čemu Číně lidé na sítích jsou? A jak se mění způsoby, kterými totalitní stát šíří svou propagandu? Otázky pro Ivanu Karáskovou, vedoucí čínského týmu v Asociaci pro mezinárodní otázky. Ptá se Matěj Skalický.Všechno z tématu Politika a zpravodajství můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

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Wicked – the 20-year-old – smash hit on Broadway turns the story of the "Wizard of Oz" on its head. Now, the story of Elfaba the Wicked Witch of the West, Glinda the Good Witch, and the Wizard himself is making the shift from stage to screen. The director bringing the Broadway hit to screens across the country is Jon M. Chu, the director of the blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians.The movie version of Wicked is in many ways the culmination of Chu's own story as a person of color. Chu always wanted to be a filmmaker. Chu says his life experience and career lead him to tell the story of a person of color in a new way.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Introducing a new investigative true crime series: "Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery."Karen Silkwood’s death 50 years ago this week continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation. The 28-year-old plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with The New York Times allegedly to deliver evidence documenting unsafe conditions at the plant. Two reporters who covered the Silkwood story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate: Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew. Fifty years later, hear newly-discovered investigative tapes, deathbed conversations and long-awaited interviews reexamining what happened that night.Listen to Ep. 1 now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your podcast app of choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we talk about the Double Reduction Policy, gaokao, and Chegg.We also discuss GPTs, cheating, and disruption.Recommended Book: Autocracy, Inc by Anne ApplebaumTranscriptIn July of 2021, the Chinese government implemented a new education rule called the Double Reduction Policy.This Policy was meant, among other things, to reduce the stress students in the country felt related to their educational attainment, while also imposing sterner regulations on businesses operating in education and education-adjacent industries.Chinese students spend a lot of time studying—nearly 10 hours per day for kids ages 12-14—and the average weekly study time for students is tallied at 55 hours, which is substantially higher than in most other countries, and quite a lot higher than the international average of 45 hours per week.This fixation on education is partly cultural, but it’s also partly the result of China’s education system, which has long served to train children to take very high-stakes tests, those tests then determining what sorts of educational and, ultimately, employment futures they can expect. These tests are the pathway to a better life, essentially, so the kids face a whole lot of pressure from society and their families to do well, because if they don’t, they’ve sentenced themselves to low-paying jobs and concomitantly low-status lives; it’s a fairly brutal setup, looked at from elsewhere around the world, but it’s something that’s kind of taken for granted in modern China.On top of all that in-class schoolwork, there’s abundant homework, and that’s led to a thriving private tutoring industry. Families invest heavily in ensuring their kids have a leg-up over everyone else, and that often means paying people to prepare them for those tests, even beyond school hours and well into the weekend.Because of all this, kids in China suffer abnormally high levels of physical and mental health issues, many of them directly linked to stress, including a chronic lack of sleep, high levels of anxiety, rampant obesity and everything that comes with that, and high levels of suicide, as well; suicide is actually the most common cause of death amongst Chinese teenagers, and the majority of these suicides occur in the lead-up to the gaokao, or National College Entrance Exam, which is the biggest of big important exams that determine how teens will be economically and socially sorted basically for the rest of their lives.This recent Double Reduction Policy, then, was intended to help temper some of those negative, education-related consequences, reducing the volume of homework kids had to tackle each week, freeing up time for sleep and relaxation, while also putting a cap on the ability of private tutoring companies to influence parents into paying for a bunch of tutoring services; something they’d long done via finger-wagging marketing messages, shaming parents who failed to invest heavily in their child’s educational future, making them feel like they aren’t being good parents because they’re not spending enough on these offerings.This policy pursued these ends, first, by putting a cap on how much homework could be sent home with students, limiting it to 60 minutes for youngsters, and 90 minutes for middle schoolers.It also provided resources and rules for non-homework-related after-school services, did away with bad rankings due to poor test performance that might stigmatize students in the future, and killed off some of those fear-inducing, ever-so-important exams altogether.It also provided some new resources and frameworks for pilot programs that could help their school system evolve in the future, allowing them to try some new things, which could, in theory, then be disseminated to the nation’s larger network of schools if these experiments go well.And then on the tutoring front, they went nuclear on those private tutoring businesses that were shaming parents into paying large sums of money to train their children beyond school hours.The government instituted a new system of regulators for this industry, ceased offering new business licenses for tutoring companies, and forced all existing for-profit businesses in this space to become non-profits.This market was worth about $100 billion when this new policy came into effect, which is a simply staggering sum, but the government basically said you’re not businesses anymore, you can’t operate if you try to make a profit.This is just one of many industries the current Chinese leadership has clamped-down on over the past handful of years, often on cultural grounds, as was the case with limiting the amount of time children can play video games each day. But like that video game ban, which has apparently shown mixed results, the tutoring ban seems to have led to the creation of a flourishing black market for tutoring services, forcing these sorts of business dealings underground, and thus increasing the fee parents pay for them each month.In late-October of 2024, the Chinese government, while not formally acknowledging any change to this policy, eased pressure on private tutoring services—the regulators in charge of keeping them operating in accordance with nonprofit structures apparently giving them a nudge and a wink, telling them surreptitiously that they’re allowed to expand again—possibly because China has been suffering a wave of economic issues over the past several years, and the truncation of the tutoring industry led to a lot of mass-firings, tens of thousands of people suddenly without jobs, and a substantial drop in tax revenue, as well, as the country’s stock market lost billions of dollars worth of value basically overnight.It’s also worth noting here that China’s youth unemployment rate recently hit 18.8%, which is a bogglingly high number, and something that’s not great for stability, in the sense that a lot of young people, even very well educated young people, can’t find a job, which means they have to occupy themselves with other, perhaps less productive things.But high youth unemployment is also not great for the country’s economic future, as that means these are people who aren’t attaining new skills and experience—and they can’t do that because the companies that might otherwise hire them can’t afford to pay more employees because folks aren’t spending enough on their offerings.So while it was determined that this industry was hurting children and their families who had to pay these near-compulsory tutoring fees, they also seemed to realize that lacking this industry, their unemployment and broader economic woes would be further inflamed—and allowing for this gray area in the rules seems to be an attempt to have the best of both worlds, though it may leave them burdened with the worst of both worlds, as well.What I’d like to talk about today is another facet of the global tutoring industry, and how new technologies seem to be flooding into this zone even more rapidly than in other spaces, killing off some of the biggest players and potentially portending the sort of collapse we might also see in other industries in the coming years.—Chegg, spelled c-h-e-g-g, is a US-based, education-focused tech company that has provided all sorts of learning-related services to customers since 2006.It went public on the NYSE in 2013, and in 2021 it was called the “most valuable edtech company in America” by Forbes, due in part to the boom in long-distance education services in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic; like Peloton and Zoom, Chegg was considered to be a great investment for a future in which more stuff is done remotely, as seemed likely to be the case for a good long while, considering all the distancing and shut-downs we were doing at the time.In early 2020, before that boom, the company was already reporting that it had 2.9 million subscribers to its Chegg Services offering, which gave users access to all sorts of school-related benefits, including help with homework, access to Q&As with experts, and a huge database of solutions for tests and assignments.The company then released a sort of social-publishing platform called Uversity in mid-2021, giving educators a place to share their own content, and they acquired a language-learning software company called Busuu, which is a bit like Duolingo, that same year for $436 million.In May of 2023, though, the company’s CEO said, on an earnings call, that ChatGPT—the incredibly popular, basically overnight-popular large-language-model-powered AI chatbot created by OpenAI—might hinder Chegg’s near-future growth.The day after that call, Chegg’s stock price dropped by about 48%, cutting the company’s market value nearly in half, and though later that same month he announced that Chegg would partner with OpenAI to launch its own AI platform called Cheggmate, which was launched as a beta in June, by early November the following year, 2024, the company had lost about 99% of its market valuation, dropping from a 2021 high of nearly $100 per share, down to less than $2 per share as of early November.This isn’t a unique story: LLM-based AI tools, those made by OpenAI but also its competitors, including big tech companies like Google and Microsoft, which have really leaned into this seeming transition, have been messing with market valuations left and right, as this collection of tools and technologies have been evolving really fast—a recent five-year plan for Chegg indicated they didn’t believe something like ChatGPT would exist until 2025 at the earliest, for instance, which turned out to be way off—but they’ve also been killing off high-flying company valuations because these sorts of tools are by definition multi-purpose, and a lot of the low-hanging fruit in any industry is basically just providing information that’s already available somewhere in a more intuitive and accessible fashion; which is something a multi-purpose, bot-interfaced software tool is pretty good at doing, as it turns out.Chegg’s services were

It’s been a week since America voted to return Donald Trump to the White House, and there are already reports of new appointments - including Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz and Elise Stefanik. How will these people shape the way Trump deals with the world - what’s going to happen in Ukraine and the Middle East? And what will China do? To talk about this in this episode of The American Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by Michael Martins, who worked in Trump’s first administration as a foreign policy advisor in the US embassy in London and now runs the Overton Advisory consultancy, and Channel 4 News’ International Editor Lindsey Hilsum. Produced by Silvia Maresca, Calum Fraser and Ka Yee Mak.

This week, we let the liquor talk. Caroline flexes her pop culture knowledge by breaking down why Brianna Chickenfry got the support of Boston Bruins players after her highly publicized split from country star Zach Bryan.In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover:  How divine intervention played into the Saints snapping their losing streak The beef between NBA stars Jaylen Brown and Giannis Antetokoumpo  The Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight and why Blake and Caroline will not be tuning in live The Ringer’s Nora Princiotti on Taylor Swift’s impact on the NFL, what Jerry Jones needs to do about the glaring problem inside AT&T Stadium, and why the Lions are poised for a playoff run in the NFC The top “Send It” moments of the week, including the Oxford Police Department instructing Ole Miss students where to put the goalposts after their upset win over Georgia, LeBron breaking his own record, and breakdancer Raygun in… the NFL? Nora’s Instagram: @noraprinciottiBlake’s Instagram: @blaaakkkkeCaroline’s Instagram: @cghendytheSkimm’s Instagram: @theskimm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new phrase circulating the internet is leaving women worried. 'Your Body My Choice' starting increasingly doing the rounds following the election of Donald Trump last week, flipping the pro-choice rhetoric of My Body My Choice on its head.  So where did this phrase originate? And how has it forced women to reevaluate their current view of the opposite sex? THE END BITS Support independent women's media Check out The Quicky Instagram here Liked this episode? Listen to these: EXCLUSIVE: Bonnie Blue Says She Can Give Your Sons Better Sex Ed Musk, Ivanka & RFK: The Next US Government & The Woman Who Faked Her Own Death Trump's Claimed Victory, But How Did We Get Here? EXCLUSIVE: Erika Was On Her Way To A Diddy Party. A Message From His Team Stopped Her Join the Month of MOVEGet $30 off a Mamamia subscription and get unlimited access to our feel-good exercise app. Head here to get a yearly subscription for just $39.  GET IN TOUCH Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice note or email us at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to: Em Vernem, Mamamia Content Producer & Host of The Spill  Executive Producer: Taylah Strano  Audio Producers: Tegan Sadler Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The quest to live forever has taken us from diet fads to geographic fantasies like Blue Zones. But none of these ideas are based in reality, according to Washington Post health columnist Anahad O'Connor and Saul Justin Newman, a researcher on aging.This episode was produced by Zachary Mack and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcastSupport Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members"Blue Zones" founder Dan Buettner, who produced "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" Netflix show, in an appearance. Photo credit: Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alice Springs has come and gone from national news coverage over the past few years. It started with the lapse of alcohol and pornography bans in remote communities around Alice Springs in mid-2022. Property offences increased by almost 60%, assaults rose by 38%, and domestic violence assaults doubled. Since then, steps have been taken to reinstate restrictions, but the town and its surrounding communities have remained in the national spotlight. We debated who to speak with, but all roads pointed back to Matt Paterson, the young, outspoken Mayor who won the job by just two votes in 2021.We'd love it if you could complete our News Club survey.Want more News Club in your life? We've got you...Sign up to our News Club newsletter Watch all our interviews on Youtube Follow us on Instagram: @The Squiz PS: If you love what we do, the best way to support us is by clicking ‘follow’ on Apple or Spotify. A huge thanks to those who drop us a 5-star review, or even better—spread the word about News Club with your friends, family, colleagues... even your barista.

V Bílém domě brzy nastane střídání stráží, co čekat od nového týmu Donalda Trumpa? Mladistvá dívka si odpyká dvouletý trest vězení za to, že na sociálních sítích schvalovala střelbu na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity a za přípravu vraždy spolužaček. Potvrdil to vrchní soud v Olomouci. Jaký tím vysílá signál společnosti? Hlava anglikánské církve a arcibiskup z Canterbury Justin Welby dnes oznámil svou rezignaci. Ovlivní to postavení celé církve? Všechno z tématu Politika a zpravodajství můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Seit dem 16. September kontrolliert die Polizei an den deutschen Außengrenzen. So soll die Zahl der Migranten gesenkt werden. Wie arbeitet die Polizei? Und wie erfolgreich ist sie? Die Bilanz ist nicht eindeutig. Watzke, Michael www.deutschlandfunk.de, Hintergrund

Prezidentem České stomatologické komory byl znovu zvolen Roman Šmucler. Proč je pro pacienty v některých regionech těžké najít zubaře, za kterým by nemuseli daleko dojíždět a u kterého by za běžné zákroky nemuseli doplácet? „Problémem není Moravskoslezský kraj, jak se pořád křičí, ale problémem je Ústecký kraj, Karlovarský kraj, Pardubický kraj a Vysočina,” popisuje Šmucler ve Dvaceti mintách Radiožurnálu.Všechno z tématu Politika a zpravodajství můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Георгий Филимонов возглавил Вологодскую область осенью 2023 года и с тех пор стал одним из самых медийных региональных руководителей. Он предлагает ввести в области сухой закон, выходит на публику под песню «Небо славян», заставляет подчиненных отжиматься и ругает их за плохое знание английского. В кабинете Филимонова висят портреты Сталина и Мао Цзэдуна. В телеграм-каналах губернатора называют ставленником первого заместителя главы администрации президента Сергея Кириенко и другом дочери Путина Катерины Тихоновой. Послушайте аудиоверсию материала Андрея Перцева об эксцентричном губернаторе. Прочитать текст можно здесь. 📻 «Радио Медуза» есть в нашем приложении, на подкаст-платформах и на ютьюбе. Ютьюб-канал — это еще один способ поддержать нас: нажмите «Стать спонсором» рядом с кнопкой подписки. 🎧 Подкаст Андрея Перцева и Александры Прокопенко о российской политике «Вид на Кремль» слушайте здесь.Как поддержать нашу редакцию — даже если вы в России и вам очень страшно

W 1. odc. 3 sezonu Opowieści arabskich Jan Natkański opowie o historii Strefy Gazy – od czasów starożytnych po współczesność, proklamowanie państwa Izrael, powstanie palestyńskiego ruchu oporu, negocjacje pokojowe, radykalizację Hamasu, aż do masakry w kibucu Kefar Azza 7 października 2023 roku i trwającej obecnie odwetowej wojny Izraela. Zaprasza Agata Kasprolewicz. Gość: Jan Natkański Realizuje: Kris Wawrzak --------------------------------------------- Raport o stanie świata to audycja, która istnieje dzięki naszym Patronom, dołącz się do zbiórki ➡️ ⁠https://patronite.pl/DariuszRosiak⁠ Subskrybuj newsletter Raportu o stanie świata ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠➡️ ⁠https://dariuszrosiak.substack.com⁠ Koszulki i kubki Raportu ➡️ ⁠https://patronite-sklep.pl/kolekcja/raport-o-stanie-swiata/⁠ [Autopromocja]

Der Krieg im Gazastreifen wühlt auf, verstört, macht traurig und wütend. Experten warnen seit Monaten, dass der Krieg ein Nährboden für Radikalisierung ist, auch unter muslimischen und arabisch-stämmigen Jugendlichen in Deutschland. Ein Projekt will dem etwas entgegensetzen.

Am 23. Februar 2025 soll ein neuer Bundestag gewählt werden. Und die Regierungsbildung könnte danach schwierig werden, da die AfD in Umfragen zwischen 18 und 19,5 Prozent liegt. Auch weil die Zeit drängt, will eine Gruppe von Bundestagsabgeordneten um Marco Wanderwitz (CDU) einen fraktionsübergreifenden Antrag für ein Verbotsverfahren gegen die AfD auf den Weg bringen. Dieser Antrag werde bereits in den "nächsten Tagen" im Bundestag eingebracht, sagt Wanderwitz im Gespräch mit "Auf den Punkt". Zwar habe man bereits im Sommer mehr als 37 Unterstützer des Antrags und damit die erforderlichen fünf Prozent der Bundestagsabgeordneten für so eine Initiative gewinnen können. "Wir haben aber seitdem weiter gesammelt, weiter geworben, und wir sind mittlerweile deutlich darüber." Außerdem spricht Wanderwitz über die Situation in seiner Heimat Sachsen, wo die Sondierungen zwischen CDU, SPD und BSW gescheitert sind. Denn dort gibt es Spekulationen über eine mögliche Duldung einer CDU-Minderheitsregierung durch die AfD. Weitere Nachrichten: 5,1 Prozent mehr Lohn für Metaller; Shell muss CO₂-Ausstoß nicht senken; Israels Verteidigungsminister befürwortet Angriff auf Irans Atomanlagen. Moderation, Redaktion: Lars Langenau Redaktion: Nadja Schlüter Produktion: Jakob Arnu Klicken Sie hier, wenn Sie sich für ein Digitalabo der SZ interessieren, um unsere exklusiven Podcast-Serien zu hören: www.sz.de/mehr-podcasts Mehr über die Angebote unserer Werbepartnerinnen und -partner finden Sie HIER