Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Katie Honan , senior reporter at The City and co-host of the podcast FAQ NYC, reca...
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Back in February of 2022, anyone who knew anything thought the War in Ukraine would be over in a few weeks. Russia simply had more bodies to fight with and more steel to kill with. Fast-forward ...
The future of warfare is being shaped by computer algorithms that are assuming ever-greater control over battlefield technology. The war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for some of these w...
NATO's defense ministers have agreed to supply Ukraine with weapons amid Russia's invasion of Ukrainian territory, following a two-day meeting in Brussels. Also, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zel...
Listen to interesting ways of deploying drone for this show by French band Super Parquet, Brooklyn cellist Clarice Jensen, and drone music built around the sounds of bats from Field Works, aka St...
Ian Frazier , who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where three roommates build, fly, and race drones. Jor...
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Ian Frazier , who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where three roommates build, fly, and race drones. J...
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Regina Spektor’s songs are powered by years of classical training on the piano, a voice that jumps seamlessly from a whisper to a roar, and a sense of play in her lyrics and songwriting. A five...
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Listen to interesting ways of deploying drone for this show by French band Super Parquet, Brooklyn cellist Clarice Jensen, and drone music built around the sounds of bats from Field Works, aka St...
Listen to interesting ways of deploying drone for this show by French band Super Parquet, Brooklyn cellist Clarice Jensen, and drone music built around the sounds of bats from Field Works, a...
Lou Reed—music icon, poet, photographer, Tai Chi master, vital force in the cultural life and underworld of New York City. Lou died in 2013 and left not a word of instruction about what he want...
Lou Reed—music icon, poet, photographer, Tai Chi master, vital force in the cultural life and underworld of New York City. Lou died in 2013 and left not a word of instruction about what he want...
Ian Frazier , who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where three roommates build, fly, and race drones. Jor...
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Arthur Holland Michael , co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College , joins us to discuss his book Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of the Gorgon Stare and How It Will ...
In an executive order enacted on Wednesday, President Trump rolled back an Obama-era policy having to do with how the U.S. reports the number of people killed in drone strikes outside of designat...
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"I Felt the System Was Raping Me All Over Again": Senator McSally Reveals Sexual Assault in the Military Republican Senator Martha McSally from Arizona shared her story of assault in the mili...
The deep sea is the largest habitat on Earth, but it’s also one of the least understood. As mining companies eye the mineral resources of the deep sea—from oil and gas, to metal deposits—m...
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Ian Frazier , who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, recently travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where three roommates build, fly, and race dr...
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Ian Frazier , who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, recently travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where three roommates build, fly, and race dr...
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Should political parties tack to the center or move to the fringes in the midterm elections? Amy Davidson Sorkin talks to a political scientist who’s crunching the numbers. Ian Frazier visits a...
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An Iranian flag flutters in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Photo by Leonhard Foeger/Reuters ABOARD THE USS NIMITZ — High above the Per...
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The Pentagon has sent new guidance to the armed services that lays out the military’s authority to disable or shoot down any drone that violates airspace restrictions over a U.S. base and is de...
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Former Delta intelligence analyst Brett Velicovich , who spent 10 years conducting counter-terrorism and intelligence operations globally, and journalist Christopher S. Stewart join us to disc...
CLICK ON THE 'LISTEN' BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS INTERVIEW. This past Sunday , the U.S. military confirmed that it carried out a drone strike in southern Somalia against the militant group al-Sh...
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Watch Video | Listen to the Audio By Melanie Saltzman and Sam Weber CHRISTOPHER LIVESAY: The massive elephant footprints are still visible in Kusekwa Elias’ cornfield. Just outside the ...
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CLICK ON THE 'LISTEN' BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS INTERVIEW. When President Obama came into office in 2008 he inherited two wars, one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, and proposed a timeline ...
None of us know what Donald Trump will do once he becomes President Trump. What we do know is what he has said he wants to do and what powers he will have, should he choose to act. That's wh...
Jameel Jaffer serves as the Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, and former Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU. He led the ACLU legal team that sued for the releas...
JAMEEL JAFFER, Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, and former Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU, sued for the release of the “drone memos," the policy documents...
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Director/Producer Sonia Kennebeck discusses her film, “National Bird” which follows three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around the U.S. drone war. The whistleblow...
On March 12 2016, children in Malawi look on amazed in the community demonstration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) flying in Lilongwe. The Ministry of Health and UNICEF launched the ...
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Today's show is a rebroadcast of interviews that originally aired on May 4, 2016. JEREMY SCAHILL discusses the "Drone Papers," leaked documents detailing U.S. warfare programs in Afghanistan...
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Watch Video | Listen to the Audio CHRISTOPHER BOOKER: Police in the Netherlands are taking a unique approach toward unwanted, and potentially unsafe, drones. They’re the first in the world ...
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Watch Video | Listen to the Audio Read the full transcript below: HARI SREENIVASAN: I am joined from Washington, D.C. by Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent for “The New York Tim...
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Photo of White House by Getty Images WASHINGTON — The White House has released a version of President Barack Obama’s 3-year-old guidance on the use of lethal force against terrorists overse...
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In the midst of all the negative publicity about drones in warfare and surveillance, hundreds of people are expected to descend on Governors Island this weekend to see the remote-controlled machi...
Earlier this month, the White House released an assessment of U.S. drone strikes over the last seven years. Robert Greenwald , who directed the 2013 documentary, “Unmanned: America’s Drone...
WNYC reporter Ilya Marritz is filling in for Leonard today! ROBERT GREENWALD gives an update on U.S. drone strikes, following the latest White House data report. Author KATHERINE HEINY talks a...
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A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone takes off from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. To match Exclusive AFGHANISTAN-DRONES/ REUTERS/Josh Smith/File Photo WASHINGTON — The Obama adm...
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Drones in national parks are a safety hazard and nuisance to visitors and wildlife, said Jonathan Jarvis, the park service’s director. Photo by Flickr user Frank D’Amato With drones flying ...
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CLICK ON THE 'LISTEN' BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS INTERVIEW. On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced new guidelines for commercial drones, considered a milestone for the indus...
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Coming up on today's show: On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced new guidelines for commercial drones. Drone advocates have lauded the updates, but some are concerned that the...
CLICK ON THE 'LISTEN' BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS INTERVIEW. In a foreign policy speech yesterday , presidential candidate Hillary Clinton positioned herself as President Obama's successor. She h...
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Karen Greenberg , director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law , examined how the War on Terror enabled a decade-long assault on Constitutional rights - from th...
Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill discusses his latest book The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program. Director Rob Reiner talks about his new film �...
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Investigative reporter JEREMY SCAHILL discusses the "Drone Papers," leaked documents detailing U.S. warfare programs in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. MATTI FRIEDMAN'S new book, Pumpkinflowe...
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It's not the kind of thing you want to contemplate as you make your spring break travel plans: Could a toy drone bring down a commercial airliner? That question was perilously tested in the ...
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In National Bird, director Sonia Kennebeck profiles three whistleblowers who worked inside the US military’s drone program and now fear a government backlash for speaking out. The film makes it...
Workers set up a commercial drone display at the AEE Technology booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center for the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5, 2016. Steve Marcus/Reuters ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a conference at Buenos Aires’ Town Hall, March 23, 2016. Marcos Brindicci/Reuters WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that “c...
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