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A straightforward look at the day's top news in 20 minutes. Powered by ABC News. Hosted by Brad Mielke.
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Trouble Bruin: Escalation at UCLA
Pepper balls, flash bangs and arrests signal a new stance at colleges. The U.S. military grapples with a decades-long policy toward autism, even as diagnoses increase. And researchers discover an orangutan appearing to use a plant as medicine.
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Columbia’s Cop Reckoning
A student protest organizer describes a police raid on campus. Hamas considers a ceasefire proposal from Israel. And money troubles at a historically Black college put students’ financial aid at risk.
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Florida’s New Abortion Ban Begins
As a six-week abortion ban goes into effect in Florida, former President Donald Trump says he wouldn’t oppose even stricter rules on pregnant women. Democrats stop a challenge to House Speaker Mike Johnson in its tracks. And the Justice Department is closer than ever to changing federal marijuana rules.
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Campus Protests 101: Student Suspensions
Columbia University begins taking academic action against protesting students. Former President Donald Trump heads back to court in New York. And the Major League Baseball Players Association issues a scathing memo on Nike’s new uniforms.
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The Plan for Hamas’ Hostages
As criticism of Israel mounts abroad, Hamas releases videos of Israeli-American hostages. An American tourist becomes the latest to be jailed over weapons possession in Turks and Caicos, where sentences have become more severe. And barbs at the White House Correspondents Dinner shed light on the presidential race.
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Are Presidents Prison-Proof?
The Supreme Court appears to consider a precedent in which some presidential actions would be impossible to prosecute. Harvey Weinstein’s landmark conviction in New York is overturned. And Venice institutes the world’s first fee for simply visiting a city as a tourist for the day.
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Customer Reviews
The best
I listen to a lot of news podcasts in the morning (okay, is 5 a lot?) and without a doubt Start here is the clearest, most easiest to understand. They get to the heart of an issue, (and yet make it fun to listen to too). If ever I am unclear about the latest bruhaha going on, I never worry, because I know by the time I listen to Start here, I will not only understand it, but will have had a chuckle about it too
Columbia Interview
Overall this show is 5-stars, but the recent interview with the Columbia was incredibly disappointing.
I think it’s important that these students’ voices be heard, but they should receive the same scrutiny as other witnesses.
They claim the only acceptable outcome is divestment, but Brad glides past the hypocrisy of the student refusing to divest themselves from the university. He also casually glides past the fact that the students escalated this non-violent protest as soon as they broke into school property.
We’re failing these students every time we allow reactionary thinking to go unchecked.
Political slant is showing.
Four police officers are killed in Charlotte, NC on 4/29. Start Here does not even mention it in the 4/30 report - Students protesting and Trump trial are more important??? This just shows the slant or agenda this news organization has. God bless the fallen police officers and their families. Shame on ABC for being a thinly veiled arm of the left political party.