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Synopsis
Rooster runs you through a lot of news items (about 35) each day. It includes all the major stuff, but also plenty of good to know bits. Rooster will tell you the essentials of each story, and then its on to the next. The idea is to get you informed in all genres of news quickly each morning.
Episodes
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Monday, June 27: Shaq given State Department role to work with Cuba
27/06/2016 Duration: 06minShaquille O’Neal, Sports Envoy to Cuba | After Brexit, Scotland weighing UK Scexit | Tensions high in the Labour Party | Floods in West Virginia | Fires in California | Trump pleased with Brexit vote | Bernie says he’ll vote Hillary in November | Polls vary widely, but Hillary comfortably ahead | George Will says he’s no longer with the GOP | Pope calls for Armenian remembrance | And says church should apologize to the […]
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Friday, June 24: Columbus wins grant for public transportation transformation
24/06/2016 Duration: 06minColumbus wins $50 million for public transportation overhaul | UK votes to leave the European Union | Prime Minister David Cameron announces resignation | British pound plunges | Supreme Court tie vote blocks Obama’s immigration reform | ‘Stairway to Heaven’ ruled to not have been stolen | Democrats’ sit-in ends without a gun control vote | Bipartisan gun control compromise not likely to make it | Plan to ban confederate flags […]
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Thursday, June 23: Monkey escapes from Massachusetts zoo
23/06/2016 Duration: 05minMassachusetts monkey makes a break for freedom | House Democrats stage sit-in to force gun control vote | C-SPAN airs Periscope feeds | Paul Ryan calls it a publicity stunt | 300 arrested over healthcare fraud | Hastert begins prison sentence | Gay marriage statistics | Hoax press release on NRA’s website | White House signs chemical use bill | Republicans propose Obamacare alternative | Trump lays into Hillary | Sanders admits it’s not looking good | Poll says […]
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Wednesday, June 22: 72 new emojis released
22/06/2016 Duration: 06minEmojis galore | EgyptAir black box equipment damaged | David Cameron warns against Brexit | North Korea launches two missiles | Suicide belt scare in Brussels | Australian paralympian robbed in Brazil | Jaguar shot in Brazil after getting loose | Congolese warlord gets 18 years | Orlando shooter came to club, left, and then reentered | And purchased plane tickets for after the shooting | California men convicted of plotting to support ISIS | Jeep from […]
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Tuesday, June 21: Netflix has a new logo
21/06/2016 Duration: 05minNetflix’s new ‘N’ | Senate votes down gun control measures | Supreme Court sides with law enforcement on stop and search case | Assault weapons ban remains in CT and NY | Orlando police call transcript released | Threats of using explosives | Trump campaign hurting for cash | Trump fires campaign manager | Adviser celebrates Lewandowski’s exit, then resigns | Teen in Las Vegas wanted to kill Trump | Heat and flames in SoCal | NYC […]
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Monday, June 20: Cleveland gets its first championship in 52 years
20/06/2016 Duration: 06minCavaliers best Warriors in Game 7 | Transcripts of Orlando killer’s police calls will be released | Twelve arrested in foiled Belgium terror plot | Iraq wrests Fallujah from ISIS | Former Egyptian president sentenced to life in prison | Protests over US military presence in Japan grow | Children killed in boating accident in Russia | Russia’s track and field team banned from Rio | Group of delegates plotting Trump […]
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Friday, June 17: Oxygen detected 13 billion light-years away
17/06/2016 Duration: 05minFarthest away that oxygen has ever been found | EgyptAir black box recovered | British politician murdered | Russian soccer fans jailed | Orlando shooter texted with wife during slaughter | LGBTs the most frequent target of hate crimes | Obama visits Orlando | Filibuster ends with agreement to vote | McCain says Obama is responsible for Orlando | NYT says NRA is complicit in terrorism | Most pressing issues for Americans | Disney adding alligator warning […]
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Thursday, June 16: Broadway’s first live streamed show
16/06/2016 Duration: 06min‘She Loves Me’ will be the first live streamed Broadway show | Boy’s body found after alligator attack at Disney hotel | Orlando shooter’s final Facebook post | Wife said she tried to stop him | Day-long filibuster by Democrats over gun control | FBI warns against threatening Muslims | Major EgyptAir pieces found | Pistorius takes off prosthetics in court | Brexit debate on the Thames | Prince William on gay magazine […]
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Wednesday, June 15: 9-year old swims to Alcatraz and back
15/06/2016 Duration: 05minBoy completes record-setting Alcatraz swim | Wife of Orlando shooter being investigated | Obama slams Trump, proposes changes | Paul Ryan not onboard with Muslim ban | Hillary wins final primary of 2016 | Bernie’s wishlist | Hillary up 12 points in new polls | Russian hackers infiltrate DNC | Court says internet is a utility | Judge from Stanford trial removed from new sexual assault case | Alien meteorite found in Sweden | Dolphins being removed […]
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Tuesday, June 14: Restaurant in Italy named world’s best
14/06/2016 Duration: 06minOsteria Francescana is primo | Obama says Orlando shooter wasn’t working within a larger plot | Police say shooter was ‘cool and calm’ while on the phone | Reports say shooter was involved in the gay scene | Democrats look to pass gun regulation measures | Trump delivers polarizing security speech | Trump bans Washington Post | LinkedIn is now Microsoft’s | Eight years and $25 billion later | DraftKings and FanDuel talking […]
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Monday, June 13: Pittsburgh Penguins win their fourth Stanley Cup
13/06/2016 Duration: 06minPenguins win the Cup | America’s deadliest mass shooting | Omar Mateen | FBI was aware of him | Assault weapons debate reemerges | Trump tweets about being congratulated | Armed man arrested while going to LA’s gay pride parade | Big night at the Tonys for ‘Hamilton’ | Creator wins the Belmont Stakes | Warriors on the verge | Draymond suspended for Game 5 | Fighting between British and Russian soccer fans | Polling shows momentum for Brexit […]
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Friday, June 10: Mel Gibson planning a ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel
10/06/2016 Duration: 05minMel Gibson going back to the ‘Passion’ well | Hillary lands Obama endorsement | And other prominent Democratic endorsements | Hillary and Trump get into it on Twitter | Kasich not feeling Trump | Spate of Clinton documentaries coming | Supreme Court says dismissed juries can be called back in | Ruling against concealed carry in public | Driver charged with murder for killing cyclists | Prosecutor says Freddie Gray driver gave a […]
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Thursday, June 9: Elements will be named after Moscow and Tennessee
09/06/2016 Duration: 06minMoscovium and tennessine | Sharapova banned for two years | Nike staying with her | North Korea producing plutonium again | Mass shooting in Israel | Another Syrian hospital attacked | The world’s most peaceful and most dangerous countries | False bomb threat diverts EgyptAir flight | U of Chicago student body president in hot water | Scholarship-receiving valedictorian says she’s undocumented | Stanford rapist’s courtroom statement released | Ohio legalizes medical marijuana | Trump says there are four […]
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Wednesday, June 8: Harry Potter takes to the stage in London
08/06/2016 Duration: 06minHarry Potter play hits London | Hillary’s victory speech | Tuesday’s primary results | Trump makes use of the teleprompter | Obama will talk with Sanders on Thursday | Bernie will keep up the primary fight | Paul Ryan not OK with Trump’s judge comments | Trump says comments were misconstrued | Senator unendorses Trump | American female obesity hits all-time high | Safety drills for potential Pacific Northwest tsunami | Police say there’s no evidence that […]
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Tuesday, June 7: Playboy Mansion sold to Hostess co-owner
07/06/2016 Duration: 06minNeighbor buys Playboy Mansion | No charges against Cincinnati Zoo family | Zuckerberg’s password: ‘dadada’ | Hillary declared the presumptive nominee | Not yet, says Bernie | Buzzfeed ends RNC partnership over Trump stances | Trump makes first congressional endorsement | Supreme Court will hear Texas death penalty cases | Death sentence for Grim Sleeper | Petition calls for recall of judge in Stanford rape case | Stanford addresses situation | Outrage over Turner’s father’s ’20 minutes […]
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Monday, June 6: Facebook departing from Helvetica font
06/06/2016 Duration: 06minNew Facebook font | Muhammad Ali dead at 74 | Hillary wins Puerto Rico ahead of Tuesday’s primaries | Trump doesn’t want judge of Mexican descent | Obama commutes 42 more prison sentences | Dismal May jobs report | Controversial prison sentence for Stanford swimmer | Tropical Storm Colin gaining steam | Paris flooding | Five arrested over tiger deaths in Thai temple | Boko Haram attack in Niger | NPR journalist killed by the Taliban | Three killed […]
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Friday, June 3: USA cracking down on ivory trade
03/06/2016 Duration: 06minMost ivory trading will be banned in the US | Prince died of painkiller overdose | Identity of UCLA killer revealed | He’s also suspected in death of Minnesota woman | Paul Ryan caves and endorses Trump | Hillary has some words about Trump | Trump protesters get violent in San Jose | Pilot dead in military plane crash in Tennessee | Jet crashes following Air Force graduation flyover | Flooding in Texas […]
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Thursday, June 2: Switzerland opens world’s longest rail tunnel
02/06/2016 Duration: 06minWorld’s longest and deepest tunnel in the Swiss Alps | UCLA murder-suicide | New Olympic sports proposed for 2020 | FDA calling for less salt | Black box signals from EgyptAir plane detected | Relative was behind kidnapping of Mexican soccer player | Hillary with narrow California lead over Bernie | Trump has UK travel plans | PGA event taken from Trump’s Florida course, moved to Mexico | NYC investigating use of Trump […]
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Wednesday, June 1: Rolling Stone becomes a father to twins at 68
01/06/2016 Duration: 06minRonnie Wood gets two newborns at 68 | Police investigating Cincinnati Zoo disaster | ‘The Biggest Loser’ under investigation for weight-loss drugs | General Mills recalling a whole lot of flour | Actor found guilty of killing his wife | Drew Peterson plotted to kill prosecutor from murder trial | State Department warns against European travel | Poland looking to extradite Roman Polanski | European passport forgers arrested | Battle continues in Fallujah | Government […]
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Tuesday, May 31: Warriors and Cavaliers set for NBA Finals rematch
31/05/2016 Duration: 06minWarriors complete series comeback against Thunder | Zoo gorilla killed after boy falls in | Mars gets up close and personal with Earth | Another failed missile test in North Korea | Former ruler of Chad jailed for life | Mexican soccer player gets kidnapped, then frees himself | Dr. Heimlich practices what he preaches | Scientists deliver grim Great Barrier Reef report | Zika said to not be worth postponing […]