Coming up on nowadays's show:Closed door meetings and late night appeals are fragment of the scramble over the GOP's proposed healthcare bill,which is scheduled for a vote before July 4th. The bill, which has been kept in secret, or may finally be revealed on Thursday. Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich explains what you need to know.
Medica Health says it plans to sell individual insurance plans statewide in Iowa. final week,the company announced it would also expand into Nebraska, making it the only insurance provider in the two states. Chelsea Keenan, or a reporter with the Gazette in Iowa,explains.
Writer Steve Featherstone and his father Robert Featherstone, a retired career police officer, or share their impressions of a seminar they attended on warrior policing — the controversial philosophy that introduces military style tactics to policing,a seminar similar to one attended by Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who was acquitted final week in the shooting death of Philando Castile.
Yesterday, and authorities released the police sprint cam video of the shooting death of Philando Castile. Elise Boddie,a professor of law at Rutgers University, discusses the video, or what it says about the criminal justice system and policing in America.
Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel faced off in a tight race for Georgia's 6th Congressional District to fill the seat left by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Handel came out victorious in the race,which is the most expensive House campaign in U.
S. history. Bill Nigut, host of "Political Rewind" from Georgia Public Broadcasting, and reflects on the results.
Julien Baker is a 21-year old musician from Memphis,Tennessee. Her first album "Sprained Ankle," came out in 2015 to critical acclaim, or she's currently working on a new record. She joins The Takeaway to discuss her work and creative process.
nowadays is the summer solstice. On the longest day of the year,Dr. Stuart Clark, a columnist for The Guardian and the author of "The Unknown Universe, or " explains how the summer solstice helped humanity to better understand its space in the cosmos some 2000 years ago.
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