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Trump in Settlement Talks Over 60 Minutes Kamala Harris Interview

Trump in Settlement Talks Over 60 Minutes Kamala Harris Interview

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President Trump and Paramount Global are in “active settlement discussions” amid a lawsuit that Trump filed against the company over an interview that CBS’ 60 Minutes aired last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. The revelation came in a motion filed Friday by Trump’s attorneys asking for an extension in the deadlines in his lawsuit against Paramount Global, parent company of CBS. The motion states that both sides “respectively submit that good cause to extend the deadlines set forth in the table below exists because the Parties are engaged in active settlement discussions, including continued mediation.” Related Stories Trump alleges in the lawsuit that CBS News aired a “heavily tampered interview” with Harris to help her in the election by editing certain answers in a way that misled viewers. Trump’s team alleges that this constitutes a violation of Texas’ consumer protection law covering deceptive advertising and the unfair competition prong of the Lanham Act, a trademark law. As previously reported, the two sides are currently in mediation talks to try and resolve the suit. Paramount reportedly previously …

A Pastor Reports from the Frontlines In Los Angeles:  Faith and Immigration

A Pastor Reports from the Frontlines In Los Angeles:  Faith and Immigration

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 .image-caption { display: none; } .pod-stream-buttons { display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; } .post-thumbnail { display: none; } .stream-button { flex: 1 1; margin-right: 0.5rem; } .stream-button:last-child { margin-right: 0; } .stream-button a { display: flex; } .stream-button object, .stream-button img { width: 100%; height: 100%; } .wp-remixd-voice-wrapper { display: none !important; } This week on The State of Belief, an inspiring conversation with Rev. Noel Andersen, the National Field Director for Church World Service and a dedicated advocate for immigrant rights. In this episode, he joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to delve into the pressing issues surrounding immigration enforcement, the role of faith communities, and the ongoing fight for justice in the face of adversity. Here are three key takeaways that stand out: The Reality of Court Raids: Noel shares firsthand accounts of ICE agents conducting raids at courthouses, targeting asylum seekers who are simply following the legal process. This alarming trend highlights the urgent need for awareness and action within our communities. The Power of Faith Communities: Throughout the episode, …

APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald

APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald

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Kristin Borgwald recently joined the faculty of St. Louis Community College, Meramec. She was previously a professor at Miami Dade College for 14 years, and while she misses the Miami sunshine, she is excited to return home to St. Louis where she grew up. Her interests include normative and applied ethics, epistemology, and interdisciplinary work. What are you working on right now? I’m kicking around ideas about duty and care. I’ve recently had some “sandwich generation” duties to loved ones that have me thinking about the concepts of duty and obligation, and how we teach these ideas in ethics courses. In many of the introduction to ethics texts that I use, the Kantian idea of obligation or duty is put in terms of what one ought to do, what one must do: like a chore. I am not experiencing my own familial obligations in this way though; I want to do my duty, and I care about my duties in a way that the “I have to do X” imperative doesn’t capture. I feel like …

Leah Greenberg, Indivisible, and No Kings: “You do not need permission to get started”

Leah Greenberg, Indivisible, and No Kings: “You do not need permission to get started”

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 .image-caption { display: none; } .pod-stream-buttons { display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; } .post-thumbnail { display: none; } .stream-button { flex: 1 1; margin-right: 0.5rem; } .stream-button:last-child { margin-right: 0; } .stream-button a { display: flex; } .stream-button object, .stream-button img { width: 100%; height: 100%; } .wp-remixd-voice-wrapper { display: none !important; } This week on The State of Belief – getting ready for No Kings Day on June 14th, an initiative of the national grassroots organization Indivisible. Co-founder Leah Greenberg explains that No Kings Day is a forceful nationwide response to the royal pretensions on display in Donald Trump’s demand for a multi-million dollar military parade on his 79th birthday. Leah joins Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to discuss the importance of getting involved rather than discouraged, share past Indivisible successes and lessons learned, and the essential role faith leaders and communities play in giving credibility to public actions like this. Leah traces the origins of Indivisible, where she serves as co-executive director, back to authoring The Indivisible Guide in the wake of the 2016 election. …

APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald

APA Member Interview, Anna Boessenkool

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Anna Boessenkool is a Philosophy PhD candidate at Boston College and Guest Academic Affiliate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is currently writing her dissertation on the influence of child psychoanalysis on phenomenological investigations of childhood and infancy. Link to your website: https://annaboessenkool.com/ What is your favorite thing that you’ve written? My favorite paper I’ve written was on anorexia nervosa, roughly titled “On Adolescent Women and Their Bodies in Cases of Anorexia Nervosa: A Psychoanalytic Account.” What was especially meaningful while I was working on this paper was reading psychoanalytic case studies and first-person recollections, which delved into the heart of anorexia. Given my training in phenomenology, I found that these studies often concerned the mysteries and paradoxes inherent to anorexia and the perception of the anorexic. These sensitive accounts and the conversations with peers I’ve had sparked by them have impacted me immensely and further ignited my interest in the philosophy of psychology and psychoanalysis. What are you working on right now? Right now, I’m writing my dissertation, tentatively titled “Infancy: From …

Clint Eastwood denies giving viral interview to Austrian newspaper

Clint Eastwood denies giving viral interview to Austrian newspaper

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Clint Eastwood denied ever sitting for an interview with an Austrian newspaper in which he allegedly decried the “era of remakes and franchises”. Austrian newspaper Kurier published an interview on Friday in which the Oscar-winner apparently criticised the current state of Hollywood. “I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea,” he was quoted as having said in the interview, according to a translation by Reuters. “We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I have shot sequels three times, but I haven’t been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home.” The Million Dollar Baby director, however, said he never gave the interview. “A couple of items about me have recently shown up in the news,” he said …

The Andrew Mayne interview: How to succeed as a polymath

The Andrew Mayne interview: How to succeed as a polymath

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Sign up for the Big Think Business newsletter Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers. In an age where most careers converge towards specialization, genuine Renaissance-style polymaths have become increasingly difficult to come by — but Andrew Mayne comfortably fits the bill. Bestselling author, science educator, original OpenAI prompt engineer, inventor, founder, coder, and protective-shark-suit designer all appear on his packed resume. The sky, it seems, is Mayne’s limit. After high school, he achieved his childhood dream of becoming a magician. Then he decided to branch out — and branch out he did. Many of Mayne’s subsequent endeavors emerged from his childhood passion. He developed an educational program for public schools that teaches critical thinking skills through magic tricks, hosted his own reality TV show, Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne, and — walking in the footsteps of daredevil illusionists like Harry Houdini — designed a light-reflecting scuba suit that enabled him to safely swim alongside great white sharks.  Mayne has taken other risks, too. In his 30s, he decided to try his hand at creative writing, …

Humanism, Dennett, and AI: An Interview with Dr. Anthony Grayling

Humanism, Dennett, and AI: An Interview with Dr. Anthony Grayling

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Anthony Grayling CBE, MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are “The Good Book,” “Ideas That Matter,” “Liberty in the Age of Terror,” and “To Set Prometheus Free.” For several years he wrote the “Last Word” column for the Guardian newspaper and a column for the Times. He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and New Statesman, and is an equally frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. He writes the “Thinking Read” column for the Barnes and Noble Review in New York, is the Editor of Online Review London, and a Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Hello, again! It has been a little over 8 years since the Conatus …

Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Interview

Freedom of the Press Foundation Threatens Legal Action if Paramount Settles With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Interview

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Media advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation has sent a warning letter to Paramount mogul Shari Redstone, outlining plans to file a lawsuit if the media company settles a suit brought by President Donald Trump against its subsidiary, CBS. “Corporations that own news outlets should not be in the business of settling baseless lawsuits that clearly violate the First Amendment,” Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern said in a statement. Stern issued the warning by asking for a litigation hold on Friday afternoon, demanding that Paramount preserve any documents relating to a potential Trump deal and urging the company not to settle. The nonprofit is able to seek damages because it owns shares of Paramount. It plans to act on behalf of itself and other shareholders, alleging that the settlement would amount to the company’s executives “breaching their fiduciary duties and wasting corporate assets by engaging in conduct that US senators and others believe could amount to unlawful bribery that falls outside the scope of the business judgment rule.” The …

Human Welfare, Scientific Skepticism, and Equality: An Interview with Andrew Copson

Human Welfare, Scientific Skepticism, and Equality: An Interview with Andrew Copson

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Andrew Copson is a British humanist leader, writer, and advocate born in 1980 in Warwickshire, England. He is Chief Executive of Humanists UK and President of Humanists International. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he has championed secularism, human rights, and inclusive education. Copson frequently represents humanist perspectives in national and international forums, including the UN. He has authored and edited multiple works on secularism and humanism and speaks widely in the media and at public events. Copson, who was raised non-religious, emphasizes human welfare, scientific skepticism, and equality, and lives with his spouse, Mark Wardrop, in a civil partnership. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Andrew, thanks for speaking with us as your term as President of Humanists International comes to a close. Looking back, let’s start at the beginning. How was the non‑religious, working‑class environment in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, influential on your humanist perspectives? Copson: You’re a good interviewer! You do your background research! Well, the late twentieth century in England was a secularising time and place in any case but my experience of working class life in …