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Daily Bite of News

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Good Morning! A daily news update, delivered with no drama or political opinions or heated arguments, in a relaxed manner, compiled from relevant and reliable sources. You can listen on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9kp6JWB34Q00yDGQPLA-eQ

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DBON - October 20, 2020

October 20, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MB

Sources: (https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-kenosha-david-bossie) (https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-sudan-dropped-state-sponsors-terrorism-335-million-terror-victims) (https://www.foxnews.com/us/testimony-ex-madam-jeffrey-epstein-made-public-appeals-court) (https://www.foxnews.com/us/alaska-tsunami-earthquake) (https://www.foxnews.com/world/un-arms-embargo-against-iran-expires-whats-next) (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/nyregion/jean-carroll-trump-rape-lawsuit.html?action=click&modu...

DBON - October 19, 2020

October 19, 2020 15:00 - 9 minutes - 6.41 MB

Sources: Fox News.com New York Times.com National Review.com Bloomberg.com Business Insider.com Reuters.com

DBON October 18, 2020

October 18, 2020 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.61 MB

Sources: Fox News.com Bloomberg.com New York Times.com The Independent Yahoo!News

DBON - October 17, 2020

October 17, 2020 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MB

Sources: (https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-administration-reverse-course) (https://www.foxnews.com/us/denver-orders-new-mask-mandate-amid-spiking-cases)(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/supreme-court-undocumented-immigrants-census.html) (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/europe/putin-nuclear-new-start-treaty.html) (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/americas/mexico-salvador-cienfuegos-arrested.html) (https://www.bloomberg.com/?sref=Ig8525Pv) (Daily News: https://www.yahoo....

DBON - October 16, 2020

October 16, 2020 15:00 - 7 minutes - 5.1 MB

Sources: New York Times.com FoxNews.com Bloomberg.com Politico.com NationalReview.com USAToday.com LosAngelesTimes.com

DBON - October 13, 2020

October 13, 2020 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB

(https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-white-house-doctor-says/) (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/texas-ballot-drop-box-restrictions-reinstated-by-appeals-court?sref=Ig8525Pv) (https://www.bloomberg.com/?sref=Ig8525Pv) (https://www.foxnews.com/us/nypd-gearing-up-for-more-protests-as-presidential-election-nears-barrett-confirmation-hearings-begin) (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-considering-ny-governor-cuomo-attorney-general) (http...

DBON - October 12, 2020

October 12, 2020 15:00 - 7 minutes - 5.49 MB

SOURCES: FOXNEWS.COM NEWYORKTIMES.COM INSIDER.COM THEWEEK.COM AFP.COM PREVENTION.COM INDEPENDNT.CO.UK REUTERS.COM THE INDEPENDENT

DBON - October 11, 2020

October 11, 2020 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.54 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES:   A federal judge on Friday blocked Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to authorize only one ballot box per county in Texas, no matter the size. Judge Robert Pitman said the directive imposed a burden on an already vulnerable voting population that is somewhere between 'slight' and 'severe.' (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-texas-abbotts-limit-ballot-boxes)   Federal Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, on Friday allowed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to move ...

DBON - October 10, 2020

October 10, 2020 14:00 - 8 minutes - 5.66 MB

1. THE COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE (CPD) CANCELED THE NEXT PLANNED PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE SCHEDULED FOR THIS NEXT THURSDAY, DUE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP REFUSING TO TAKE PART IN A VIRTUAL DEBATE. (FOXNEWS.COM) 2. HURRICANE DELTA WEAKEND TO A CATEGORY 1 AS IT MADE LANDFALL IN LOUISIANA; 100 MPH WINDS. (FOXNEWS.COM) 3. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSAL TO SELL F-35 STEALTH WARPLANES TO THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES IS BEING STALLED AMID CONCERNS RAISED OVER THE SALES RISK TO U.S. TECHNOLOGY SECURITY...

DBON - October 09, 2020

October 09, 2020 22:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB

SOURCES:  (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/elections/trump-covid-conley.html) (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/08/covid-cluster-427949) (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-08/pelosi-and-trump-question-each-other-s-mental-faculties?sref=Ig8525Pv) (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/08/seema-verma-mark-meadows-drug-card-plan-427950) (Independent: https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-charity-gave-7-500-173118227.html) (Insider: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ghislaine-ma...

DBON - October 06, 2020

October 06, 2020 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.51 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES: President Trump returned to the White House on Monday night. “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/trump-leaves-hospital-coronavirus.html)The Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc “antibody cocktail” given to President Donald Trump to treat his Covid-19 symptoms was developed with the unauthorized use of a fluorescent protein, according to a lawsuit by a California company (Allele Biotechnology and Pharmaceutic...

DBON - October 05, 2020

October 05, 2020 23:00 - 8 minutes - 5.55 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES ON SUNDAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP BRIEFTLY LEFT THE HOSPITAL TO PAY TRIUTE TO HIS SUPPORTERS GATHERED OUTSIDE, WAVING FROM A BLACK MOTORCADE CAR. (FOXNEWS.COM) ON SUNDAY, HUNDREDS OF PROTESTERS BLOCKED A LOS ANGELES, CA FREEWAY TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE CONFLICT BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN AND ARMENIA. LOS ANGELES HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST POPULATIONS OF ARMENIANS. (FOXNEWS.COM) THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION, THE LARGEST HUMANITIES PHILANTHROPY IN THE U.S., HAS PLEDGED $250 MILLION OVER 5...

DBON - October 04, 2020

October 04, 2020 14:00 - 14 minutes - 9.91 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES:  The White House offered conflicting messages about President Trump’s health on Saturday. By evening, the President released a four-minute video meant to reassure the nation. (NewYorkTimes.com)  Minutes before the president tweeted his positive test, two Boeing E-6B Mercury planes took off from both US coasts. Pentagon officials were quick to dismiss speculation that the two planes were a show of strength and a warning to enemies not try to take advantage of the political...

DBON - October 03, 2020

October 03, 2020 14:00 - 5 minutes - 4.03 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES: DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE JOE BIDEN ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN MICHIGAN URGED AMERICANS TO WEAR A MASK IN PUBLIC, AND CALLED ONCE AGAIN FOR MASK MANDATES NATIONWIDE. (FOXNEWS.COM) PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS TAKEN TO WALTER REED MEDICAL CENTER ON FRIDAY TO START RECEIVNG REMDESIVIR TREATMENT, AND IS RESPORTED TO HAVE A SMALL FEVER AND A COUGH. SEVERAL REPUBLICANS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO ATTENDED THE ROSE GARDEN CEREMONY ON SATURDAY ARE TESTING POSITIVE, AS IS KELLYANNE CONWAY. (FOXNEWS.COM) ...

DBON - October 02, 2020

October 02, 2020 19:00 - 6 minutes - 4.26 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES: COLORADO GOV. JARED POLIS RELEASED A PLAN WEDNESDAY TO CUT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND MEET ENVIRONMENTAL TARGETS CALLED "THE GREENHOUSE GAS POLLUTION REDUCTION ROADMAP." (FOXNEWS.COM) GOV JARED POLIS OF COLORADO ALSO SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THURSDAY, PARDONING 2732 COLORADIANS CONVICTED OF POSSESSING ONE OUNCE OR LESS OF MARIUANA. (FOXNEWS.COM) ON WEDNESDAY, GOV. TATE REEVES LIFTED MISSISSIPI'S STATE WIDE MASK MANDATE, MAKING IT EH FIRST STATE TO DO SO SINCE THE B...

DBON - September 29, 2020

September 29, 2020 15:00 - 13 minutes - 9.05 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES:  -President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are preparing for their first presidential debate today, Tuesday at 9 P.M. ET, hosted by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio. (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/us-presidential-debates-explained/index.html)  -In the 10 months since a mysterious pneumonia began striking residents of Wuhan, China, Covid-19 has killed more than one million people worldwide as of Monday. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/...

DBON - September 28, 2020

September 28, 2020 15:00 - 6 minutes - 4.57 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES: A new law signed by California Governor Gavin Newson on Saturday, requires the state to house transgender inmates in prisons based on their gender identity. (FoxNews.com) Hundreds of homo-sapien fossilized footprints dating back 120,000 years have been discovered in Saudi Arabia in a lakebed, and could point to the earliest evidence of human movement in the region. (CNN.com) Saudi Arabia has signed 3 agreements with United Nations aid agencies to provide $204 million in ...

DBON - September 27, 2020

September 27, 2020 15:00 - 14 minutes - 9.89 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES:  Russia and China blocked the official release of a report by U.N. experts on Libya that accused its warring parties and their international backers -- including Russia -- of violating a U.N. arms embargo, U.N. diplomats said Friday. (https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-china-block-release-of-un-report-criticizing-russia)  The U.S. imposed export restrictions on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., taking aim at another prominent Chinese technology company. (...

DBON - September 26, 2020

September 26, 2020 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.43 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES: President Trump has selected Judge Amy Coney Barrett has his open Supreme Court seat nominee. (NewYorkTimes.com) In New York City, Mayor Bill DeBlasio ordered the police and sheriff’s office to enforce public health guidelines in several Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn, where many residents are defying wearing masks and social distancing at religious social events. (NewYorkTimes.com) Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency in Portland on...

DBON - September 25, 2020

September 25, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed an even tighter lockdown than the one he announced last week to limit the spread of the coronavirus in Israel, which now has the highest rate of new cases per capita in the world. The rules announced Thursday effectively ended both the protests and indoor worship. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/world/middleeast/israel-covid-lockdown.html) Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader poisoned last month, was still in a me...

DBON - September 24, 2020

September 24, 2020 10:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES:  In Breonna Taylor’s case, A Kentucky grand jury chose not to file murder charges Wednesday against any of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting during a drug raid on her home in Louisville, Kentucky. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/officers-avoid-murder-charges-in-death-of-taylor-protest-wrap?sref=Ig8525Pv)  LeBron James was one of several in the sports world to speak out on Wednesday. “I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!!”  (https://www.yah...

DBON - September 22, 2020

September 22, 2020 17:00 - 8 minutes - 6.2 MB

THIS EPISODE DESIGN IS A TRIBUTE TO BETHESDA’S SKYRIM, WHICH MICROSOFT HAS THE PRIVILEGE OF OWNING...   TOPICS & SOURCES:  Microsoft agreed on Monday to acquire ZeniMax Media Inc, the owner of popular videogame publisher Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 billion. (Bloomberg.com)  Animal rescuers have confiscated 3 lions from Netflix’s “Tiger King” star Jeff Lowe’s shuttered Oklahoma zoo as part of an Endangered Species Act lawsuit. (FoxNews.com)  Despite heavy smoke from fires, protests resum...

DBON - September 21, 2020

September 21, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.59 MB

TOPICS & SOURCES: A federal judge has issued an injunction against President Trump’s executive order banning the Chinese social media app WeChat from operating in the United States after midnight on Sunday. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/economy/court-wechat-ban.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage) A Canadian national suspected of having mailed an envelope containing ricin to the White House addressed to President Trump was arrested on Sunday while trying t...

DBON - September 20, 2020

September 20, 2020 14:00 - 10 minutes - 7.44 MB

Topics & Sources:  President Trump pressed Senate Republicans on Saturday to confirm his choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “without delay,” as he seeks to force through an appointment in the weeks before the election on Nov. 3. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/supreme-court-trump.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage) The Biden campaign will have an unusually direct role in the confirmation fight through Senator Kamala Harris of California, Mr. Bide...

DBON - September 19, 2020

September 19, 2020 12:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MB

Topics:  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, died at her home in Washington on Friday at 87 years old. Her legacy. Beijing on Saturday moved to create a blacklist of foreign companies seen as threatening its national security or acting against Chinese business interests in apparent retaliation for the U.S. bans. The world is overflowing with coffee beans, sending futures for the arabica variety to the worst week...

DBON - September 18, 2020

September 18, 2020 15:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MB

SOURCES:  The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/09/17/sally-atlantic-storms-teddy/)  The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/world/asia/us-official-taiwan-china.html  Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/world/uighurs-china-united-states-human-rights  Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/violent-protesters-can-face-sedition-charge-top-prosecutor-says?sref=Ig8525Pv https://www.yahoo.com/news/kurds-paid-dearly-trump-recklessn...

DBON - September 16, 2020

September 16, 2020 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.3 MB

Topics:   Pfizer Inc said Tuesday that participants in their coronavirus vaccine study were showing mostly mild-to-moderate side effects.  Nurse Dawn Wooten came out exposing a U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Georgia for dangerous medical malpractices.  European Union leaders told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday in a video summit conference statement that Europe would no longer be taken advantage of in trade.  The U.S. Space Force confirmed that its Space ...

DBON - September 15, 2020

September 15, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MB

Topics: Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed a $1.5 billion loan on Belarus on Monday after its leader Alexander Lukashenko flew to a  Black Sea resort to ask for additional support. In Berlin, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is able to breathe on his own, successfully been removed from mechanical ventilation, and can briefly leave his hospital bed, his doctors said Monday. More than two dozen phones belonging to members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team were “acciden...

DBON - September 14, 2020

September 14, 2020 16:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MB

Topics:   Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center in Miami said tropical storm Sally is expected to become a hurricane today, Monday, and reach shore by early Tuesday, bringing dangerous weather conditions.   Millions are being tormented by the unrelenting smoke in the states effected by fires along the West Coast. President Donald Trump will travel to California on Monday for an update on the wildfires. Roughly 1 in 3 Americans could have access to legal recreational marijuana if v...

DBON - September 13, 2020

September 13, 2020 15:00 - 13 minutes - 9.66 MB

Sources: MMAWeekly.com https://www.yahoo.com/sports/iran-executes-champion-wrestler-despite-200550991.html AFP.com https://www.yahoo.com/news/ufc-star-mcgregor-arrested-corsica-160407174.html TheMotleyFool https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/09/11/report-tiktok-not-likely-to-be-sold-by-us-governme/ Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/?sref=Ig8525Pv BrinkNews.com https://www.brinknews.com/as-pakistan-and-saudi-arabia-drift-apart-china-moves-in/) New York Times https://www.nytimes....

DBON - Saturday, September 12, 2020

September 12, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes - 6.94 MB

Topics:  September 11, Joe Biden and President Trump separately traveled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania to the Flight 93 National Memorial to pay their respects. Both men put aside their political battle for the solemn day.  Detailed genetic analysis of the strains of virus that cause COVID-19 suggest that the outbreak took hold in Washington state as early as January, but went undetected for weeks, according to two studies published in the journal “Science.”  Coronavirus outbreaks are expe...

DBON - Friday, September 11, 2020

September 11, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.96 MB

Sources:    BBC News  https://www.yahoo.com/news/rio-tinto-chief-executive-quit-001501752.html  Bloomberg  https://www.bloomberg.com/?sref=Ig8525Pv  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/why-paris-dropped-transit-fares-for-young-riders?srnd=premium&sref=Ig8525Pv  Daily Beast  https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-campaign-firm-hit-suspected-103751269.html  Politico  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/10/seema-verma-medicaid-expenses-411539  Business Insider  https://ww...

DBON - Thursday, September 10, 2020

September 11, 2020 07:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MB

Topics:   -Oregon state wildfires destroy five towns, just as three fatalities are confirmed in one of California’s fire. Climate scientists say global warming has contributed to greater extremes in wet and dry seasons across the U.S. West.   -On Wednesday morning, the city of San Francisco and surrounding areas were blanketed in a thick coat of orange smoke.  -The United States has revoked visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers under an order by President Donald Trump th...

Daily Bite of News - September 09, 2020

September 09, 2020 15:00 - 14 minutes - 9.85 MB

Wednesday, September 09, 2020 Topics: According to the Transportation Security Administration, more people flew over the holiday weekend than any other time during the coronavirus pandemic. More than 3.2M passengers were screened from Friday to Monday. US President Donald Trump will announce further troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan in the next few days. At least three volunteers linked to Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny's team were taken ill on Tuesday after an attack o...

Daily Bite of News - September 08, 2020

September 08, 2020 16:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MB

Sources: The Week https://news.yahoo.com/hospital-russi... Reuters https://news.yahoo.com/lithuania-fear... https://news.yahoo.com/mnuchin-says-e... CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/08/leban... New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us... https://news.yahoo.com/candidate-vote... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/bu... FOX News-Weather https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-b...  &

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