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Announcer Joe Rogan reacts during UFC 249 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on May 09, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)
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Arts & Entertainment

What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem

More than a thousand health professionals are calling on Spotify to crack down on COVID-19 falsehoods aired on the podcast of the company's most popular host.

5 years ago

File photo: Comedian Louie Anderson appears in Los Angeles in July 1987.   (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Louie Anderson, comic, Emmy winner for ‘Baskets,’ dies at 68

Anderson’s publicist Glenn Schwartz says the comedian died Friday in Las Vegas.

5 years ago

File photo: Singer Meat Loaf performs in support of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Meat Loaf, whose
Arts & Entertainment

Meat Loaf, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ rock superstar, dies at 74

Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album, has died at age 74.

5 years ago

Empty courtroom
Courts & Law

Top Delaware court rejects ex-Trump adviser’s defamation case against Yahoo, Huff Post

Delaware’s Supreme Court denied former Trump adviser Carter Page’s defamation lawsuit over media reports on his connections to Russian officials.

5 years ago

The Activision Blizzard Booth is shown during the Electronic Entertainment Expo
Money

Microsoft buys game maker Activision Blizzard for about $70B

Activision Blizzard is the maker of Candy Crush’ and ‘Call of Duty.’

5 years ago

(6abc)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Jeopardy!’ champ hits $1 million; talks fame, trans rights

Amy Schneider is now among only four contestants to reach $1 million in regular-season play.

5 years ago

In the year since the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, a crackdown by big tech platforms has sent the attack's organizers and far-right groups scrambling for new homes on the internet.
(Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Kicked off Facebook and Twitter, far-right groups lose online clout

It's been called the Great Deplatforming.

5 years ago

Powerball made a Chester County couple the first millionaires of 2022 moments after the ball drop. (6abc)
Arts & Entertainment
6abc

Chester County couple are 2022’s first millionaires

The drawing was held moments after the ball drop during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.

5 years ago

Actress Betty White poses for a portrait on the set of the television show
Arts & Entertainment

Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99

Her witty style gave life to a roster of quirky characters over more than a half-century.

5 years ago

File Photo: Broadcaster and former Oakland Raiders coach John Madden poses with his bust after enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, in Canton, Ohio. John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach turned broadcaster whose exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, the NFL said. He was 85.
Arts & Entertainment

John Madden, Hall of Fame NFL coach and broadcaster, dies at 85

Madden's exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades.

5 years ago

The Cooch family home was built in 1760 and once housed British General Cornwallis following a battle in 1777. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – December 27

We'll talk with Camden Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez and revisit our segments about millennials enduring the pandemic and Cooch's Bridge in Delaware.

Air Date: December 27, 2021 10:00 am

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A nurse marks a coronavirus vaccination card with a third
NPR
Health

The vaccines work against severe disease. Here’s why boosters are still a good idea

Vaccines still do a solid job at warding off hospitalization from omicron. Scientists explain how boosters help and the best timing to get one.

5 years ago

People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021 is set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on “Saturday Night Live,” but the surging omicron variant of the coronavirus means there won’t be a live audience to see it happen.
Arts & Entertainment

‘SNL’ ditches audience, limits cast and crew amid omicron

The sketch comedy show announced Saturday afternoon that the night’s episode would tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew.

5 years ago

FILE - Protestors light flares during a demonstration against measures to battle the coronavirus pandemic in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 11, 2021. New research indicates that far-right extremists and white supremacists are gaining new followers and influence by co-opting conspiracy theories about COVID-19.  (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter, File)
Health

Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows

White supremacists and far-right extremists are using the social media platform Telegram to expand their reach and recruit followers.

5 years ago

Fox News host Sean Hannity speaks during a taping of his show
Politics & Policy

Fox stars tried to get Trump to act on Jan. 6, texts show

Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade all texted advice to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as a mob of pro-Donald Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol.

5 years ago

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