On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first listening to of the brand new Congress with Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland. It was a rock-em, sock-em grilling by Senate Republicans, however Nationwide Public Radio fervently sought to keep away from doing a narrative on it. They discovered time for a four-minute story on a person setting a Guinness World Document for Disneyland visits, and eight minutes for an interview section on “how curry took over the world.”

So we thought it could be humorous to listing the entire 16 options NPR’s All Issues Thought of aired as an alternative on Wednesday night time, and you may see it wasn’t all essential stuff! Try the minutes and seconds, as some options lasted eight minutes.

These are their headlines: 

1. Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks feedback on why it is chopping insulin costs now (4:51)

2. Eli Lilly cuts some older insulin costs and caps out-of-pocket prices (3:46)

3. In New England, surfers catch waves via the chilly winter (2:35)

4. The therapeutic energy of meals — and the way curry took over the world (8:16)

5, The quake in Turkey and Syria left not less than 50,000 lifeless. What concerning the survivors? (4:20)

6. Nigeria has a brand new president-elect, however his opponents reject the outcomes (3:30)

7. A person set a Guinness World Document for Disneyland visits: 2,995 in a row (3:53)

8. Look to the night time sky for a dose of awe as Venus and Jupiter dance (2:18)

9. The theatrical curtain name is extra than simply bows (5:37)

10. U.S. Intelligence: overseas rivals did not trigger Havana Syndrome (3:42)

11. A robust image in Iran’s latest protests, the hijab has lengthy been contentious (5:55)

12. A pioneering gender-affirming well being institute opened in 1919 in Berlin (8:09)

13. It will be a runoff for Chicago’s mayoral race — and the incumbent is out (4:52)

14. NASA made historical past by knocking an asteroid off track. Now, it is publishing the information (3:12)

15. A reporter’s indulgence not a secret — ‘The NBA’s Damian Lillard made me a fan’ (3:57)

16. Writer Kate Zernike dissects the years-long battle for gender equality at MIT (7:51)

This provides as much as about 77 minutes of avoiding the Senate listening to with Garland (not counting native breaks and information briefs on the half-hour). In truth, this present gave the impression to be avoiding politics, apart from the Chicago mayor’s race. 

On Thursday’s Morning Version, NPR skipped the Garland listening to once more, however they did discover three minutes and 23 seconds for this: Home Democrats come collectively to work on a messaging technique to draw voters. Anchor Steve Inskeep and reporter Barbara Sprunt simply recounted Biden’s speech to a Home Democrat retreat: 

INSKEEP: So we must always be aware that President Biden spoke to the Home Democrats. This is just a little little bit of what he needed to say

PRESIDENT BIDEN: If we did nothing, nothing however implement what we have already handed and let the individuals know who did it for them, we win.

INSKEEP: Attention-grabbing. Is that true, although?

SPRUNT: Effectively, it is exhausting to say at this level. 2024 stays a methods away. But it surely does give Democrats a method, a document to run on. Biden pointed to the bipartisan infrastructure invoice, laws to spice up the home manufacturing of semiconductor chips. And he made the case to lawmakers final night time that it is politically useful for them to go residence to their districts and easily clarify to voters what they’ve carried out.

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