Harvard cuts 'cost lives', town hall anger, jewelry heist & more

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

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A Harvard professor says his life saving research has been caught up in the Trump administration’s funding freeze. Experts say President Donald Trump is getting the upper hand in his court battle over the wrongful deportation of a Maryland father. Tempers and stun guns flared at some Republican town hall meetings yesterday. Depression is becoming more common among American adults and teens. Plus, an LA jewelery theft that could have come straight out of the movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply.
0:32.6	From CNN.
0:38.3	I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Wednesday, April 16th. A Harvard professor studying a deadly brain and nerve disease says his life-saving research
0:44.3	has been put on hold by the Trump administration's funding freeze at the university.
0:50.3	On Monday, the White House announced it would hold more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts
0:56.5	after the Ivy League School refused to comply with demands to get rid of its DEI programs,
1:02.6	among other measures.
1:04.5	David Walt from Harvard's Medical School says he received an email yesterday that funding
1:09.7	for a grant to research early signs of ALS
1:12.9	was being immediately cancelled.
1:15.2	These cancellations will cost lives that could potentially have been saved in the future
1:22.2	if the medical research was allowed to continue.
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