I'm Dr. Laurie Sandos, host of the happiness lab podcast.

As the US elections approach,

it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever.

But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share with the science really shows

that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know

something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can be better.

Listen on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

We think of Franklin is the Dodrig dude flying a kite in a rain.

Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isaacson.

He's the most successful self-made business person in America.

A printer, a scientist, a founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.

Franklin casts his lot on the side of Revolution and it's another thing that splits the family apart.

Listen to On Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacson on the thing that splits the family apart.

Listen to on Benjamin Franklin with Walter

Isakson on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast.

Hunter Biden has just been charged with a gun felony and tax misdemeanors.

Hunter Biden, the 53-year-old son of President Biden, has been charged today with illegally

possessing a handgun in 2018 and failure to timely file and pay taxes in 17 and 18.

According to a court filing with a US attorney in Delaware

Hunter has agreed to plead guilty to the two tax misdemeanors.

He will also enter a probation agreement on the gun charge

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