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Assange Arrested, NASA Twins Study & Game of Thrones - Friday, April 12th, 2019

The NewsWorthy

Erica Mandy

News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The news to know for Friday, April 12th, 2019!

Today, what to know about the arrest of the WikiLeaks founder, and why a top medical association is pushing back against a new military policy.

Plus: the results from the NASA twins study, who else is listening when you talk to Alexa, and get ready for Game of Thrones...

Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...

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 Sources:

Assange Arrested: CBS NewsAP, BBC, NYT

Transgender Troops: AP/Time, PBS

National Enquirer for Sale: NYT, CNN, Fox Business

NASA Twins Study: Gizmodo, NYT, USA Today

Alexa Listening: CNN, Bloomberg

Uber IPO: CNBC, TechCrunch

Samsung Galaxy Fold: USA Today, CNET

Disney+ Update: Variety

Game of Thrones: Deadline, Variety

Coachella: Billboard, E News, LA Times

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today is Friday, April 12th.

0:02.0

What to know about the arrest of the WikiLeaks founder

0:04.5

and why a top medical association is pushing back

0:07.0

against a new military policy.

0:09.0

Plus the results from a NASA Twins study,

0:11.5

who else is listening when you talk to Alexa, and get ready for Game

0:15.1

of Thrones.

0:16.1

Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy.

0:20.5

All the days news in less than 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks

0:26.6

so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this.

0:30.0

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in custody.

0:37.0

Remember WikiLeaks is the website that leaks documents from secret military information to Hillary Clinton's emails during her

0:43.2

presidential campaign. Now the BBC reports Assange is facing a charge back in the

0:47.8

U.S. he was arrested yesterday in London. He's accused of conspiring to hack into a top-secret Pentagon computer network in 2010.

0:56.0

He allegedly worked with a former U.S. intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning, to gain access to the computer,

1:01.0

and then began posting the secret documents on his website.

1:05.2

Some have praised him saying he helped expose evidence of wrongdoing by US forces in Iraq and

1:09.8

Afghanistan.

1:11.4

So far at least the criminal case is not about the fact that he posted the information online for the public to see. It's about a computer crime. Still Assange's lawyer told the New York Times his client got information from a source and published it, making the argument

1:24.7

that all journalists should be worried about charges like this.

1:28.4

Even before his arrest, Assange knew he was in trouble in the U.S.

1:31.6

For several years, he's been hiding out in Ecuador's embassy

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