Dahmah, Eli JOUR 3101W Spring 2024

 Jan. 28, 2024 Emma Goldberg is a business reporter for the New York Times covering workplace culture. In this episode of The Daily , she talks with host Michael Barbaro about the mix of remote and in-office work following the Covid-19 pandemic and how the switch has not been easy for many businesses and their employees, creating new challenges and forcing employers and employees alike to work through them together. Goldberg starts by noting how the Covid-19 pandemic era of working from home showed in studies that people were becoming more productive, living healthier lifestyles, and actually had less stress. She attributes this to all of the time spent traveling or waiting for things in the office can now be spent at home doing little chores such as laundry, caring for a pet, working out, or preparing meals. She also noted the importance of working at home for parents with younger children as being home for bedtime or being able to go and easily pick up their child from school has...

 Jan. 28, 2024 A hiker was found collapsed on the West Rim Trail in Zion National Park in Springdale, Utah. According to NBC News , the hiker was a 63-year-old man from San Diego, California. He was found unresponsive by other hikers who performed CPR while awaiting the arrival of park rangers who had been notified of the incident, per Associated Press.  AP news also reported that upon arrival, rangers continued CPR and used an AED to try to revive the man. NBC news noted a statement from the National Park Service , which read " After nearly an hour and a half administering CPR, treatment with the AED, and checking their condition with the heart monitor, the park consulted with a doctor (medical control) and the patient was pronounced dead." NPS believes that the man suffered a heart attack, though his death is under investigation by the Washington County Sherriff's Office, Utah Office of the Medical Examiner, as well as the park service. NBC and AP both reported that the...

 Jan. 28, 2024 According to CBS News , a Minnesota State Trooper was charged with the murder of motorist Ricky Cobb II. CBS said that the officer, Ryan Londregan, requested that Cobb exit his vehicle and shot him twice when he took his foot off the brake and failed to step out. Cobb was pulled over on Interstate 94 near Lowry Avenue early in the morning on Jul. 31, 2023. CBS reported that Cobb was initially pulled over for not having his vehicle's tail lights on, but it was found that he was also wanted for violating a protective order issued by Ramsey County. CBS also reported that after receiving word that the county wanted Cobb arrested and brought to jail, that Londregan and other officers demanded Cobb exit the vehicle, to which he replied by taking his foot off the brake. After going back and forth with Cobb, Londregan finally drew his weapon and shot Cobb twice in the torso, Per CBS. AP News  stated that Londregan was charged with second-degree unintentional murder, fir...

 Jan. 23, 2024 Like many others in the summer of 2023, Catie Edmondson, Congressional correspondent for The New York Times, saw the historical drama documentary Oppenheimer, centered around physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the hydrogen bomb. Edmondson said on The New York Times' podcast The Daily that this film led to her following the financial rabbit hole of how Congress paid for the whole project, including the construction of the Los Alamos testing facilities. Edmondson wondered whether Congress knew about the project to approve the money as it was a top secret project, but the money that would have been needed to support it was no small sum. Her initial search found few results, some lackluster Wikipedia lines and a textbook with a very brief and vague description. Edmondson's starting point was to contact the library that kept former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn's papers in Austin, Texas as he would have been in the room when the financial disc...

 Jan. 23, 2024. Turkish Parliament has voted in favor of allowing Sweden to join NATO after their initial application in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Reuters  reported that in Turkey's general assembly, 287 members voted in favor of letting Sweden join NATO, while 55 were opposed.  According to CNN , part of the reason for the 20-month delay was that Turkish officials accused Sweden of taking too lenient a stance on certain militant groups, specifically the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group deemed as terrorists by the U.S. and EU. CNN reported that Sweden has since tightened regulations on these types of groups and has agreed to work with Turkey regarding security. One of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's conditions for the approval of Sweden's bid was the commitment of the U.S. to allow the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, per CNN. Now Sweden is just waiting on Hungary, the last hurdle before they become a full member of NATO, Reute...

Jan. 23, 2024  According to Kare 11,  it was at around 9 p.m. when a Nissan Pathfinder struck a stalled Ford Focus in the left lane on Highway 36 in Lake Elmo, Minn. In that Ford Focus, was 43-year-old Christopher Peterson, and his two children: 10-year-old Mason Peterson, and 5-year-old Morgan Peterson.  Fox 9 reported that Morgan suffered life-threatening injuries while Christopher and Mason both suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Morgan was also the only one in the car wearing a seatbelt. The 47-year-old driver of the Nissan Pathfinder also suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Kare 11 reported that all four people were taken to Regions Hospital following the crash. State patrol said they do not currently know whether alcohol led to the crash. Christopher's sister set up a  GoFundMe  to help support the family and give Morgan a proper funeral, per Kare 11. As of Tuesday night, that GoFundMe has reached nearly $23,000 of its $25,000 goal.