Contempt Threat, Facebook Cryptocurrency & Meteor Shower - Friday, May 3rd, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, May 3rd, 2019!
Today, we're talking about the feud on Capitol Hill that just got more heated, a cruise ship quarantine, and who Facebook is now banning.
Plus: earn cryptocurrency in the car, a Starbucks recall, and the rapper breaking records.
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:
India Cyclone: NYT, The Weather Channel
Cruise Ship Quarantine: CBS News, CNN
Facebook Ban: Washington Post, USA Today, CNN
Facebook Cryptocurrency: WSJ
Jaguar Land Rover Tech: Mashable, Forbes
Starbucks Recall: WSJ, CBS News
Women's Hockey League Boycott: ESPN, FOX Sports, Forbes
Weekend Meteor Shower: AccuWeather, Space.com, Astronomy Magazine
Drake Breaks Billboard Record: US Weekly, Yahoo!
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, May 3rd. |
| 0:03.8 | We're talking about the feud on Capitol Hill that just got more heated, a cruise ship |
| 0:07.5 | quarantine and who Facebook is now banning. |
| 0:10.3 | Plus earned cryptocurrency in the car, a Starbucks recall, and the rapper Breaking Records. |
| 0:16.0 | And today's episode is brought to you in part by the primary Ride Home Podcast providing news from |
| 0:20.0 | the presidential primaries. Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:25.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:28.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:31.0 | Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:37.0 | The feud between House Democrats and Attorney General William Barr just got more intense. |
| 0:44.0 | For one, a House committee is now threatening to hold Barr in contempt of Congress. |
| 0:47.9 | They're not happy he was a no-show at a hearing about the Molot report yesterday, but the contempt |
| 0:51.8 | part is actually about the Molot report itself. |
| 0:54.9 | Barr ignored a subpoena to hand over the full unredacted report and all evidence from the |
| 0:59.4 | Russia investigation to Congress by yesterday. |
| 1:02.8 | It still hasn't happened. |
| 1:04.4 | Barr and the Justice Department say there's a reason for that, |
| 1:07.0 | that the unredacted version would put the integrity of its investigations at risk. |
| 1:11.3 | But Democrats aren't budgeting. The New York Times reports they're giving |
| 1:14.0 | Barr one or two more days to hand it over or they'll start the contempt process, which |
| 1:18.8 | would be a bad mark on Barr's record and could possibly go to court. And there's more. |
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